- He co-wrote the song "Let's Talk About Life" for Beautiful People (1999) and was one of the performers on the song "She's Beautiful".
- He worked as an assistant director for Sarajevo Television during his film studies.
- He worked extensively on many film projects including: "Yuri Gagarin", As If I Am Not There (2010) , "Executioner", "Freedom Love", "Food Taster", "The Last Man".
- He was approached to direct films: Dirty Pretty Things (2002) , "The Restraint Of Beasts", "Carry Me Down", May 33rd (2004) .
- Although he graduated FAMU with top marks his teachers refused to give him highest university honor "Red Diploma" because of consistent anti-communist subversive messages and tackling of social taboos in his student films.
- Oscar winning Czech film director Elmar Klos (The Shop on Main Street (1965) ) rewarded Dizdar for his graduation film After Silence (1987) with the Best Director award.
- His daughter Lily Dizdar, is also an award-winning filmmaker.
He gave his daughter the name of his primary school literature teacher Ljilja (English version; Lily) who encouraged him to write, which led to winning his first award for best short story titled "History Hour". - Dizdar's ensemble cast Czech comedy Our Sweet Homeland (1988) was a prelude to Dizdar's ensemble cast English language feature film Beautiful People (1999) .
- Although Dizdar is an atheist, biblical symbolism through implication is always present in his films. 'Jesus Christ' appears as a film student in his short musical Crucifixions (1986), and in Les Européens (2006) the Italian woman asks Madonna for promised miracle, which soon falls from the sky. In Beautiful People (1999), an English football fan falls from the sky into a Bosnian war-zone, and resurrects a fatally injured child, whilst in London, a female refugee from Bosnia cradles her newborn baby, reminiscent of the infamous scene of the Virgin Mary with baby Jesus.
- The cult Czech film director Frantisek Vlácil played lead in Dizdar's After Silence (1987) .
- Jasmin Dizdar grew up in town of Zenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina, where he joined a local film club. During his membership years, he helped to transform the club into a creative hot spot and one of the best film clubs in former Yugoslavia.
- Lives in UK since 1989. UK citizen since 1993.
- As a teenager he was an actor in Zenica's Old National Theatre and played in a Bosnian theatre play "Hanka" based on the novel by Isak Samokovlija.
- He directed the Holocaust film Chosen (2016) in memory of his grandfather who was executed by Nazis during Second World War.
- Jasmin Dizdar's birth surname is Dizdarevic. His grandfather was killed during Nazis' "Seventh Enemy Offensive" in Bosnia in 1944. After the Second World War an orphanage changed his fathers original surname 'Dizdar' to 'Dizdarevic' as it was usual custom with Yugoslavian orphaned children. When Yugoslavia collapsed in early 1990s he changed Dizdarevic back to Dizdar.
- Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport paid official visit to Cannes Film Festival world premier of Beautiful People (1999) where the film received a ten minute standing ovation.
- Educated at the Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, Czech Republic.
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