Gregor Bozic

Born in 1984 in Nova Gorica, a Slovenian town on the border with Italy, Gregor has maintained a keen Interested in photography since boyhood. He studied directing at Slovene national film school, Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome and at DFFB in Berlin. Apart from working as a film director and director of photography, most notably together with the director Matjaž Ivanišin (Playing Men, 2017 and Oroslan, 2019), Gregor is also a passionate researcher of Mediterranean pomology. In 2012, he conducted a vast research on old and autochthonous fruit varieties, in which he collaborated with old farmers from the Italo- Slovene borderland. It was during this time that he collected numerous memories and stories from the 20th century, which inspired him to make Stories from the Chestnut Woods.