Lidija Zelović was born 1970 in Yugoslavia. She studied Yugoslav literature and Serbo-Croatian language at the University of Sarajevo and worked on Bosnian Television starting at age of 19. Lidija moved to The Netherlands and has been living there ever since 1993, which is a year after the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina broke out. She graduated with a Masters of Arts degree from the Film & Television Science Department at the University of Amsterdam. Starting in 1997, Lidija has worked as a researcher and subsequently as a director, script writer and producer at various television channels, including several Dutch television broadcasters (IKON mostly), in the United Kingdom for Channel 4 and BBC, as well as at the German/French ARTE channel. Lidija has had a role in numerous film selecting committees at film festivals around the world (fiction and documentary films), member of e.g. the regular one is Movies that Matter. Lidija has also been serving on the committee making decisions on which film projects will be financially supported by the Dutch Media Fund (2012/2017). Recently signed a contract with Eurimage as an Independent External Expert. In the years from 2007 until 2019, Lidija was a lecturer of the Screenplay Writing and Research for Documentary Film to students enrolled in Political Science majors at University of Amsterdam.