Anja Strelec was born in 1985. in Varazdin, Croatia. In 2008. she graduated Faculty for journalism and political sciences in Zagreb. After graduating she was working for several years in Argentina as Croatian language teacher for descendants of Croatian emigrants. In 2009. she started working in Bruxelles in Spanish regional European Union office. “The importance of being Kovacevic” (2011) was her first creative documentary film as director and "Home where my age is" (2013) is her second. She lived in France for one year where she attended master school of film and audiovisual production. At the moment she is directing her most ambitious project, personal documentary "Bloomy Days" about her mother and grandmother.