Dominik Sedlar

Dominik Sedlar was born in Zagreb (modern-day Croatia) and grew up in New York City. From 1994 until 1998 he attended Professional Children's School in NYC. Previous school graduates include: Christopher Walken, Sarah Jessica Parker, Christian Slater, Christopher Walken, Scarlett Johansson, Macaulay Culkin. He also attended New York University Tisch School of the Arts. His directorial debut came at the age of 15 when he co-directed a documentary called The Mozart of Basketball - The Story of Drazen Petrovic. Thus far Dominik has directed 15 Films. Three feature films and twelve documentaries. Most notably Syndrome Jerusalem, which won a special prize at the 2004 Venice Film Festival. In 2006 he co-directed with his father Jakov Sedlar a documentary Searching For Orson, a film about the unknown and never completed films of Orson Welles, narrated by Peter Bogdanovich and with interviews given by Steven Spielberg, Frank Marshall, Paul Mazursky, James Earl Jones, Merv Griffin,Henry Jaglom and Oja Kodar, which had its premiere at AFI FEST in Los Angeles in 2006. In 2014 he wrote and directed an indie comedy In Between Engagements (2014) starring Armand Assante, which has been distributed worldwide, as well as WWII sports drama The Match (2020) from 2021, starring Franco Nero, Caspar Phillipson and Armand Assante. The latter has been distributed in more than 70 countries around the world and has been played in more than 50 theaters across the United States and Australia/New Zealand. The Match had its domestic television premiere in December, 2021 on Showtime Networks. In 2022 he wrote and directed a political drama The Conversation (2022) starring Caspar Phillipson (Blonde (2022), Mission: Impossible - Fallout (2018), Jackie (2016)) and Dylan Turner (Mamma Mia! (2008)) based on the Post WW2 true story concerning the meeting between held between two powerful men against the background of the Cold War.