Boris Petkovič, born on April 22, 1971, in Zenica, completed his studies at the Higher Traffic School in Portorož in 1996. In 2005, he graduated in film direction at the EICAR film school in Paris, where he also taught for the next three years. In 2008, he returned to Slovenia, where he currently lives and creates.

He is known for Košarkar naj bo (2017), Desperado tonic (2004) and Utrip ljubezni (2015).