Jelena Paljan was born in 1971 in Zagreb and graduated in film and TV editing and dramaturgy from the Academy of Dramatic Art. A professional screenwriter, script analyst, script doctor and mentor at screenwriting workshops. She wrote Dubravka Turić’s film Cherries, based on Olja Savičević Ivančević’s short stories, screened in Directors’ Fortnight in Cannes (2017). Danijel Žeželj’s comic book album Ljeto was based on this script.