Vesna de Vinča

Captain Misa Anastasijevic Association – “Award for the best idea 2008” - to the author of the project “Serbia land of lilacs”, Vesna de Vinca.

de Vinča is the creator of the "Serbia, the Land of Lilacs" project, established in 2007, and supported by royal families from Europe. Working with the Military and Hospitaller Order of Saint Lazarus of Jerusalem, she donated medical equipment to hospitals in Kraljevo and Slankamen in Serbia.

As a general producer, de Vinca produced the Fashion Week in Greece in Thessalonica in 2007, 2008, and 2009, and Balkan Beauty Ambassador international events in Porto Carras in Greece, working with FASHION TV.

Since 2004 she has run a private company called De Vinca Production. She is the author of the book, Mandela's Code. From 2006, De Vinča was jury member on the ÉCU The European Independent Film Festival.

Since 1993, de Vinča has been the television program editor for the documentary program of the Serbian state TV network Radio Television of Serbia. Her television programs have been broadcast via RTS satellite, RTV Pink, and on BN TV and BN TV satellite in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The television series Top Encounters (1993–2011) is a documentary program that features De Vinca interviewing notable people. Some of her guests on the program were Nelson Mandela, Elisabeth Murdoch, Muammar Gaddafi, Arthur C. Clarke, Paco Rabanne, Yassar Arafat, Simon Wiesenthal, Sirimavo Bandaranaike, Pablo Raptis, and Gina Lollobrigida.

Vesna De Vinča (born Vesna Jugović, Serbian: Весна Југовић / Весна де Винча; 1957) is a Serbian television author, journalist, writer, director, film and event producer.