[2] Her second feature, titled Coyote, also opened at TIFF in 2022 and has received several awards.
Of Croatian, Uruguayan and Argentine descent, Jerkovic grew up in Belgium and Uruguay before moving at age 18 to Montreal, where she studied film at Concordia University.
[8] It had its US premiere at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival in competition and won Best Narrative Feature and Best Actor (Jorge Martinez Colorado) at the Brooklyn Film Festival.
[11] She is currently developing her third feature, an English language drama blending social realism and the supernatural genre.
The project has been selected to participate in the Whistler Festival Screenwriters Lab in 2023.