Zdravko Velimirović (Serbian Cyrillic: Здравко Велимировић; 11 October 1930 – 7 February 2005) was a Yugoslavian film director and screenwriter, University Professor, a member of the Academy of Arts and Sciences.

[4] Zdravko as young boy and the family, father Luka, mother Zagorka and sister Vesna lived in Cetinje at “Banski stanovi”.

His first contact with cinema was at “Gurdić” in Cetinje where he would go as a boy to watch some world significant movies that inspired him and developed desire for film making.

At “Banski stanovi” (block of flats for high governmental officials and families), in Cetinje, Zdravko lived at “Banski stanovi”, in the same block of flats together with his friends and school mates: Borislav Pekić, Pavle Vuisić, Minja Dedić who later in life also became eminent in Culture and Arts.

During his big career he made seven documentaries about his beloved Boka Bay and Kotor where he grew up and where his mother Zagorka Velimirović Balić was born.

He was on sabbatical, teaching as a professor in Canada and lectured by invitation in various academies and art institutes around the world.

He married Ranka Velimirovic, film and TV producer, in 1963, and they happily lived and worked together throughout life.