Maja Bahar

Maja previously worked for many years as a cultural editor in the cultural programmes department at Television Sovenija, where she also worked as deputy editor from 2013 to 2015. She later worked as a scriptwriter, director and analyst at the educational programme of Television Slovenia, where she worked on documentaries about cultural heritage. She is the author of the film about Roman Emona, The City Looking to the Sky, Forensics of the Iron Age, a documentary about an international team of scientists who use new technologies and modern methods to gain insights into the lives of prehistoric people, Two Hydrogen, One Oxygen, in which various experts look at water from different perspectives, including how climate change affects the environment, the documentary Odyssey 5200 - The Wheel that Turned the World; the story of the revolutionary invention of the wheel as the engine of technological development. Her audiovisual contributions can also be seen in museum exhibitions, including the award-winning exhibition My Ljubljanica at the Doživljaj Exhibition Centre in Vrhnika. The project was awarded the UNESCO Best Practises Label for Underwater Cultural Heritage and she has collaborated with renowned national and international experts and prominent filmmakers.