[1][2] In theatre history, Šajtinac is the only Serbian playwright whose play (Huddersfield) was first performed abroad in English as a world premiere.
He received the Sterijina Award for his play at the Sterijino pozorje Festival 2005, and he also participated in creating the screenplay for the same-named film.
[10][11][12] In 2010, Šajtinac participated as a co-author in creating the play Danube Drama or Awful Coffee, Cheap Cigarettes, which was realized by Wiener Wortstaetten as an international drama project, written by ten authors from ten countries, and staged by the Slovak Theater without home (Divadlo bez domova) at Štúdio 12 in Bratislava.
In 2008, this play was already translated by Chris Thorpe under the title Borderland, and in 2012, there was a German-speaking stage reading at the Leipzig Book Fair, including a subsequent talk with the author.
[18][19][20] In 2003, while still young and relatively unknown internationally, Šajtinac wrote the screenplay for the short film True Story of an Umbrella, a Bicycle, a Bullet, and an Easter Bunny (Istinita priča o kišobranu, biciklu, jednom metku i uskršnjem zeki).