Igor Mirkovic was born in 1965 in Zagreb, Croatia. He has a degree in Political Science from the Zagreb School of Political Science. While working as a journalist, he made and edited a number of television broadcasts that won awards in Croatia and abroad. He made his first documentary in 1998, Orbanići Unplugged. Since then, his career has been oriented more towards film than journalism. In 2001, he and Rajko Grlić co-directed the acclaimed documentary Who Wants to Be a President?, shown at a number of Croatian and international film festivals. In 2003, he made the documentary Lucky Child which had a successful theatrical run in Croatian cinemas. He has also directed a short film called Solid Waste (2008) and Bill Collector as part of the omnibus Zagreb Stories (2009). He is the director of the International Motovun Film Festival. Night Boats is his first feature-length fiction.