Dragomir Bajalica
A senior editor with over 30 years experience, Drago has a superb eye for story and pacing. He excels in documentaries and feature docs and fully submerges himself in each project’s subject matter. This is particularly evident in stories involving human interest, drama, tension and humour. Drago has delivered documentaries for all UK broadcasters and several international streamers.
Among his credits are ‘The Man Who Played With Fire’, which won the Rose D’Or Best Documentary in 2023 and was also shortlisted for the Grieron’s Best History Documentary and Best Documentary Series in the same year.
As well as acclaimed documentary series;’999: Critical Condition’, ‘Drive to Survive’ for Netflix and ‘Inside the Narco Wars: Mexico’ for National Geographic. And one offs such as; ‘Bounty Hunter’ with director Marc Issacs, the multi award winning feature documentary ‘Freightened’ and ‘Me and My Mental Illness’ which won Documentary of the Year at the Mind Media Awards 2017.
Dragomir is confident and fun, and thrives under pressure. He can speak and edit in Serbian (his mother tongue), Czech, Spanish, Russian and all other Slavic languages.
More work by Dragomir
Ashley Cain Into the Danger Zone
The Man Who Played with Fire
Freightened: The Real Price of Shipping
Drive to Survive
Cold Case Killers
999 Critical Condition
Finding Mr Fox: Inside West Africa’s Drug Trafficking Highway
The E-Waste Tragedy
Banged Up Abroad: Pakistan
Lost At Sea
LA Porn: Drugs Inc
I Don’t Like Mondays
The Autistic Me
Network Rail
All Creatures Great and Stuffed
The Blind Me
Ashley Cain Into the Danger Zone
Ashley Cain visits some of the world’s most dangerous places to deep-dive into issues that affect young men born into a life where criminality has become a form of survival. After an insider secures him an intro, he uses his curiosity, physicality and sheer force of personality to earn peoples’ trust and infiltrate an infamous underworld. Drago edited 2 episodes: Sweden and Colombia.
The Man Who Played with Fire
In 1986 the Prime Minister of Sweden, Olof Palme, was assassinated on a busy street in Stockholm. The murder sent shockwaves around the world, but years of police investigations amounted to very little. That is, until a former Swedish diplomat accidentally discovered the personal files of the late best-selling crime writer Stieg Larsson, author of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. Dragomir edited episode 4 of this 4 part series.
Winner of Best Documentary 2023 at Rose D’Or
Shortlisted for Best History Documentary and Best Documentary Series at The British Documentary Awards – The
Grierson Trust (2023)
Freightened: The Real Price of Shipping
Directed by Denis Delestrac ‘Freightened’ is an audacious investigation into the mechanics and perils of cargo shipping. This all-but-invisible industry relentlessly supplies 7 billion humans – and holds the key to our economy, environment and civilization.
Awarded the Prix Tournesol for originality and production at the Festival du Film Vert in Switzerland, 2017
Finalist at Documentari, Inchieste e Giornalismi Awards 2016 (Italy)
Winner Best Film at Another Way Film Festival 2016
Award at Grand Prix Écrans Publics 2016 (France)
Golden Green Award at Deauville Film Festival (France)
Drive to Survive
This multi Award winning series takes F1 fanatics onto every circuit, into the paddocks, and behind the scenes of the pinnacle of motorsport.
Season 6 takes fans behind the scenes of the 2023 season, following all 23 high-speed races and the drama that unfolds before the cars even hit the track. With Red Bull aiming for a third consecutive championship for Max Verstappen, the competition intensifies as teams and drivers fight to improve. The series offers exclusive footage, showcasing team changes, rivalries, internal struggles, and race-day surprises. New talent and seasoned drivers prove themselves, while disappointing results lead to quick regrouping and team principals fight to keep their teams in contention for the FIA Formula 1 World Championship.
Cold Case Killers
Compelling true crime documentary series, in which dedicated teams review murder investigations that concluded without success. The families of Sally McGrath and Dr Brenda Page have waited almost forty years for justice. Will their murderers be caught?
999 Critical Condition
Every day, medical staff make a series of decisions that are often the difference between life and death. It’s a world where every second matters. Embedded in one of the UK’s best trauma centres, Critical Condition follows the cases that matter most – the cases where someone’s life is on the line.
Ground-breaking in its approach with a shooting style that’s more akin to fast paced drama, each programme puts viewers at the heart of this battle for life – following staff and patients as they confront the difficult realities of emergency medicine.
Across the board, critics, fellow professionals, medics and viewers have all hailed this series as ground-breaking, re-inventing the genre, with the national press calling it “incredible”, “astounding”, “stunning”, and “extraordinary”… “Critical Condition brings new vitality to medical TV…. It is hard to imagine more compelling television”.
Dragomir edited episodes 3 and 6 of series 3.
Finding Mr Fox: Inside West Africa’s Drug Trafficking Highway
Cape Verdean rapper Ga DaLomba, reporting for BBC Africa Eye, investigates ‘Highway 10’, a transatlantic drug smuggling route from South America to Europe, via West Africa. He also searches for an alleged drug trafficker known as ‘Fox’, who Brazilian police believe is the mastermind of an operation to transport one tonne of cocaine.
The E-Waste Tragedy
Originally for ARTE France with the title “La Tragédie Électronique”, also aired on TVE and Al Jazeera.
This international documentary is about E-Waste trafficking and those fighting against it.
Won the Golden Award for the Best International TV Coproduction at the Prix Italia 2015.
Banged Up Abroad: Pakistan
In an unexpected turn of events, Amardeep Bassey, a distinguished British journalist traveling to Afghanistan for an assignment, is suddenly swept up in a whirlwind of accusations. Allegedly committing the crime of espionage, he is apprehended by Pakistan’s prestigious intelligence agency, the ISI.
Lost At Sea
From the series “I Shouldn’t Be Alive 2” for Channel 5 and Discovery channel.
A true story about two sons and their fathers lost in the Sea of Cortez in Mexico.
LA Porn: Drugs Inc
An observational documentary aired on National Geographic, following stories of the drug dealers and porn stars in the heart of the US Porn industry.
I Don’t Like Mondays
Aired on Channel 4.
The story behind The Boomtown Rats song ‘I Don’t Like Mondays’, based on Brenda Spencer the woman who committed the first ever US school shooting.
The Autistic Me
Observational documentary aired on BBC1. Multilayered story about growing up with Autism and Aspergers Syndrome. Nominated by the BBC for the Best Film and Best First Time Director Awards at The BAFTA’s 2010.
Network Rail
All Creatures Great and Stuffed
One of Channel 4’s Cutting Edge documentaries. Examines and enters the world of taxidermy practitioners, its collectors and its businesses.
The Blind Me
Documentary following four young blind people on the rollercoaster ride to adulthood. Aired on BBC3.