Rahela Jagrič Pirc
Film & TV Director
Rahela Jagrič Pirc completed BA (Hons) from Film and Video Production in 2008 (Wolverhampton-UK). Her graduation film “My Two Best Friends” won Best Drama Award as well as Best Student Production award at prestigious Royal Television Society Student Awards. Rahela’s restless spirit and tendency for challenges was clearly reflected in her Master’s film at Bournemouth University in 2009, where she directed short stereoscopic (s3D) film Coming Home. Film is known as the first s3D film made by Slovenian filmmaker. Passion for collaboration on international productions led her to numerous work experiences in London, New York, Kyoto, Berlin, Auckland, Toronto…
Rahela attended Berlinale Talent Campus in 2010, in 2011 she was selected to Kyoto Filmmakers Lab in Japan and in the same year she also received a fellowship from reputable German Filmmaking programme Nipkow. In 2013 she attended IUGTE – filmmakers lab in Russian Theater in Lithuania and in September 2014 was invited by the European Film Academy to attend filmmaker’s programme Sunday in a Country in Luxembourg. Rahela was selected to the artist residency on The Ingmar Bergman Estate on Fårö Island in Sweden in 2014. In 2019 Rahela was selected to attend Reykjavik Talent Lab in Iceland and in 2020 was selected to UGC Writer’s Campus under Series Mania Festival.
Rahela Jagrič Pirc completed BA (Hons) from Film and Video Production in 2008 (Wolverhampton-UK). Her graduation film “My Two Best Friends” won Best Drama Award as well as Best Student Production award at prestigious Royal Television Society Student Awards. Rahela’s restless spirit and tendency for challenges was clearly reflected in her Master’s film at Bournemouth University in 2009, where she directed short stereoscopic (s3D) film Coming Home. Film is known as the first s3D film made by Slovenian filmmaker. Passion for collaboration on international productions led her to numerous work experiences in London, New York, Kyoto, Berlin, Auckland, Toronto…
Rahela attended Berlinale Talent Campus in 2010, in 2011 she was selected to Kyoto Filmmakers Lab in Japan and in the same year she also received a fellowship from reputable German Filmmaking programme Nipkow. In 2013 she attended IUGTE – filmmakers lab in Russian Theater in Lithuania and in September 2014 was invited by the European Film Academy to attend filmmaker’s programme Sunday in a Country in Luxembourg. Rahela was selected to the artist residency on The Ingmar Bergman Estate on Fårö Island in Sweden in 2014. In 2019 Rahela was selected to attend Reykjavik Talent Lab in Iceland and in 2020 was selected to UGC Writer’s Campus under Series Mania Festival.
Apart from directing narrative and commercial projects, Rahela also has rich experience as a script supervisor. She gained Permittee Status at Canadian Union for Film&TV NABET 700-M UNIFOR in the Continuity Department while living in Toronto.
Rahela is currently based in Slovenia where her debut directing/writing feature film The Space Among Us (Vesolje med nami) is premiering in April 2022.
Rahela is always on the lookout for new exciting projects either in Slovenia or abroad.