Sonja Tarokic (1988, Zagreb) has an MA degree in film directing at the Academy of Dramatic Arts and a BA degree in comparative literature at the Faculty of Social Science and Humanities in Zagreb.  She is the writer and director of several short films, while her debut feature film The Staffroom premiered at Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in 2021, where it was awarded Special Mention. With this project she participated in Torino Film Lab Script&Pitch and Framework development programs. 

She has been running her own scriptwriting workshop for five years, aimed at developing short films by young local authors, and often works as a feature film script consultant, which continues to be her passion job. She finished script consultancy training at Midpoint Institute’s Feature Launch in 2022. 

She works as a film director in advertising, and in 2021 started teaching at the Zagreb Academy a class in directing the actors, for students of acting and film directing.