Jelena Silajdžić is a film producer, art promoter and human rights activist from Bosnia Herzegovina.
She is the co-founder and executive director of Slovo 21, a non-governmental non-profit organization that focuses on the integration of Roma and immigrants in the Czech Republic.
[2] Here she began to devote herself to activities drawing attention to human rights and the integration of Roma and immigrants, and the production of cultural events.
[5][6] Before leaving for Czechoslovakia, she worked for 15 years as a film production company at Forum Sarajevo.
Among her collaborators was the director Emir Kusturica; in 1988 she participated in the production of his film Time of the Gypsies (Dom za vešanje).