Jovan "Joca" Jovanović (31 May 1940 — 3 August 2022) was a Serbian director, screenwriter, editor and film theorist.
[1] Jovanović was born on May 31, 1940, in Belgrade, then Kingdom of Yugoslavia.
His documentary film Kolt 15 Gap (1971) won awards at festivals in Oberhausen, Utrecht and Belgrade, was included in the Anthology of Films of the Oberhausen Festival (published on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the festival),[2] and the American film historian Erik Barnouw included it in his book Documentary – A History of the Non-Fiction Film.
In an interview from 2010, Jovanović expressed the view that domestic pseudo-elites are the greatest danger for the Serbian nation.
[4] He is the author of the book Introduction to Film Thought.