Festival programmer, lecturer, critic, and director, Rada was born in the former Yugoslavia and is currently based in Utrecht/The Netherlands.

For over two decades, she collaborated with IDFA Amsterdam in various roles, including a member of the selection committee, a programmer for the IDFA Fund, and coordinator of all juries. She has been chairing the Documentary Competition at the Sarajevo Film Festival for the past 20 years, where she also co-founded and continues to co-lead the Docu Rough Cut Boutique. Additionally, she participates in project selection for the Doha Film Institute. In Italy, she is the artistic director of Last Stop Trieste at WEMW, and a programmer for the Documentary Competition at the Trieste Film Festival. From 2000 to 2020, she was a programmer for South Asian Cinema at the IFF Rotterdam.

Rada lectures in the Master of Film programme at the Netherlands Film and TV Academy in Amsterdam. She is one of the founders of the Eastern Neighbours Film Festival in The Hague, where she was artistic director for 15 years. At the University of Amsterdam she taught South Asian cinema for seven years, and has also been a lecturer at the Dutch Institute for Film Education (NIF). Rada taught cinema for one trimester at Srishti in Bangalore, India. She has also been a guest lecturer at film schools across Europe, in USA and Asia.

After serving as an assistant director on fiction feature films and directing several documentaries in Bosnian production prior to the war in the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s, she directed four documentaries and one dance film in the Netherlands. Her films have been screened at around 60 festivals and have received awards across Europe, Asia, and the USA, including Room Without a View (1997), Soske (2001), In Whitest Solitude (2001), and The Way to School (2007). One of her films was invited for screening and is now archived at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York.

Rada is a member of NETPAC and the European Film Academy. She served as a jury member for documentaries at the EFA in 2020 and 2021, and in 2022 she was part of the film selection committee. She has also served as a jury member at around 50 international festivals.