Rene Maurin is a Slovene / German director born in ex-Yugoslavia. He attended education in the United States, Austria, Croatia and Slovenia and could be described as

swaying between film and theatre medium. After his graduation in theatre directing he filmed a series of documentary films for the Slovenian national Television and won the attention of the film critics with films such as I saw Elvis! (1999) and Life, as from inside (2000). In the next decade, he took over the leadership of Ptuj City Theatre and directed some theatre performances which reaped wide acclaim and selected awards in Slovenia and abroad. He also produced over 50 stage productions of various dimensions, some of them awarded highest national awards.

After wishing to start focusing on fiction film for a longer while, he enrolled the master course of film directing at the Academy for Theatre, Radio, Film and Television in Ljubljana in 2012. He graduated with a short fiction film Bright Black (2014) which won the award for best academic achievement of University in Ljubljana.

As of 2012 he is a guest lecturer on the Institute for Media communication at University of Maribor in Slovenia and occasionally writes for several newspapers and magazines.