Nejc Gazvoda

Nejc Gazvoda was born in 1985 in Novo mesto, Slovenia. When he was in high school, he wrote a short fiction stories collection called "Nothing Escapes the Squirrels", which earned him Fabula 2006 (for best short fiction book) and Golden Bird 2005 award (for innovative writing). He is also an author of three novels and a drama play, all three novels were shortlisted or long-listed for "Kresnik" award (Slovenian highest award for best novel of the year) and in media, he is often referred as a leading writer of his generation. He has finished his study as a film and TV director on Academy of Theather, Radio, Film and Television in Ljubljana. His third year student movie is titled "Burgundy Red" (2007), his graduate movie is titled "Caretaker" (2008). He directed two student TV dramas, the graduate drama is titled An Ounce of Luck (2008), for which he won "Preseren" (highest academy award) academy award. He is also an awarded scriptwriter, his short movie script "It is easy" won Grossman award 2009 for best short screenplay. He also co-wrote a script for a movie "Personal Baggage" (2009) with one of the leading Slovenian film directors Janez Lapajne. He is currently promoting his first feature film, titled "A Trip", who has gained attention of festival selectors in Cannes market 2011 and has had a successful world premiere in 17th Sarajevo film festival in competition program and received excellent reviews in Variety and Screen International. A Trip has also been accepted to 27th Warsaw Film Festival (recognised by FIAPF as A category festival as one of just thirteen international competitive film festivals in the world), 19th Filmfest Hamburg in Germany, 12th Plan-Sequence Arras Film Festival in France and 22th Ljubljana International Film Festival (all competition program). He is currently working on his second feature film "Dual".