YAMAGATA Artists-In-Residence 2025
Slovenian film producer: Marina Gumzi, Director: Gregor Bozic
Film producer and director from Slovenia took research for their new feature film in the fiscal year of 2025.
Slovenian film producer and a director visited some orchards, Zao onsen area and the temples including some interviews for their research of ongoing new feature film. They also engaged in exchange activities such as the screening of their famous film “Stories from the Chestnut Woods“ and talk session, as well as the workshop of video production at the Tateyama Elementary School.
Summary
【Period of Stay】
From February 21st (Sat) 2026 to 28th (Sat)
【Main Activities】
◎Creative Activity
Research activity for the film production
◎Exchange Activities
・Screening their film and talk session
・Classes of video production at Tateyama Elementary School
Artists Profiles
Marina Gumzi
Marina Gumzi is the managing director of the Ljubljana-based production studio NOSOROGI. Alumna of the postgraduate program Next Wave at DFFB Berlin, also studied Degrowth and Ecological Economics at ICTA-UAB.
Passionate about critical and unconventional creatives she switches between the roles of a producer and scriptwriter. Especially interested in the intersection of fiction and documentarism. Films she produced and/or co/wrote were numerously internationally awarded including Jury award at Nara IFF, and were screened at renowned international film festivals and art spaces. She occasionally operates under the alias Maria Bohr.
As a researcher, Marina focuses on identifying, within film systems and creative environments, the potentials for alternative imaginaries to support the transition towards a more sustainable and equitable society.
Gregor Božič
Gregor Božič studied film and cinematography at the AGRFT film school Ljubljana and at the DFFB in Berlin, and was a postgraduate artist student at the French national centre for contemporary art Le Fresnoy.
His works have been presented in numerous important film festivals.
Since 2008 he has been conducting ongoing research on old and endemic Mediterranean fruit varieties in which he collaborated with fruit farmers from the Italo – Slovene borderland. In 2010 he planted a gene-bank orchard and wrote a book that describes all the found varieties and the stories connected with them.
YAMAGATA Artists-In-Residence Program
“YAMAGATA Artists-In-Residence” is a residency program that invites domestic and overseas artists to support their creative activities and engagement in exchange activities with citizens in Yamagata city.
We hope that this program inspires artists to create new works with Yamagata’s rich nature, climate and culture… While local communities can re-realize the regional appeal through interaction with artists and creative works…
We also hold events that allow artists and citizens to exchange, providing opportunities for mutual learning.
Organized by Yamagata Creative City Promotion Council
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