Born in Nova Gorica, during the Sarajevo Winter Olympics. He studied film directing at the AGRFT (Akademija za gledališče, radio, film in televizijo) in Ljubljana and at the DFFB in Berlin (Die Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin). Apart from working as a film director and DOP (Playing Men, 2017, Oroslan, 2019), Gregor also conducts a longitudinal research on Mediterranean autochthonous fruit varieties. In 2012, he collaborated with farmers from the Italo-Slovene borderland in setting up a gene bank orchard. His debut feature Stories from the Chestnut Woods had its world premiere at the Toronto IFF (Toronto International Film Festival) in 2019 and was screened at numerous international film festivals since.

2016 - diploma in Film directing (post-graduate)
Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin (DFFB) / Germany

2009 - university diploma in Film and TV directing
Academy for Theatre, Radio, Film and Television (AGRFT) / Slovenia