Emir Skalonja was born on august 30th 1987 in Sarajevo Bosnia and Herzegovina then Yugoslavia He moved to United States in 2002 His first film was in 1992 titled Psalm where he played the main character named Slavko It was a short film based on a short story by Mikhaila Bulgakova about a boys relationship to his neighbor at the start of a war He started producing his own short films in 2012 and completed his first horror feature Veronika in 2014 He followed that with a short horror titled Man That You Fear He lives in Buffalo New York with his wife Nicole and their two dogs and two cats He attended University at Buffalo