Dora Filipovic

Dora Filipovic is an award-winning sound designer based in London with years of experience working on short, feature fiction and documentary films.

She began her professional career back in 2011 (while she was still a BA student at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade, Serbia) when she started working in a team on numerous and noted feature and short films as a sound editor and sound designer. She received as many as seven awards at national and international film festivals such as the “Best film in South-Eastern Europe” at SEECS Short Film Festival in Istanbul (2016) and “The City of Belgrade Award” for the greatest accomplishment of youth in the field of arts (2017) for her documentary film, and Master Thesis “Glances of Closed Eyes”. The film explores blind and visually impaired people who introduce their way of life through the help of sound and how sound helps them in their daily lives.

Dora was also part of the Berlinale Talents Sound Studio in February 2016. Out of 2,648 applications, she was chosen by a jury of international experts from the fields of film and other art forms. She was one of only eight outstanding sound designer selected that year and an only female.

In 2021, she was nominated for the MPSE Golden Reel Award for Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing - Computer Cinematic for Ghost of Tsushima (Sony Interactive Entertainment).

Currently, she is a Postgraduate Researcher at the University of Surrey proposing to develop virtual reality film with immersive sound and vision depicting the phenomenological experience of living with sight disorder, which involves accentuated attention to the auditory world.