Education
He finished his primary and secondary schooling there. He first enrolled at the AGRFT in Ljubljana to study filmmaking, but later moved to Łódź in Poland, where he finished his studies as a Master of Filmmaking in 1978.
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He finished his primary and secondary schooling there. He first enrolled at the AGRFT in Ljubljana to study filmmaking, but later moved to Łódź in Poland, where he finished his studies as a Master of Filmmaking in 1978.
His 1987 film Hudodelci (The Felons) was entered into the 38th Berlin International Film Festival. Slak, alongside his family, moved to the coastal town of Koper at an early age. He became a regular lecturer at his Ljubljana alma mater in 1980 and stayed employed there until his death.
He was the president of the Board of programming of Active Slovenia.
As a candidate of the party, he bid unsuccessfully for the position of the Mayor of Ljubljana. He died after a severe illness in 2007.
Right before his death, he filmed a low-budget autobiographical film called "Kakor v nebesih, tako na zemlji" (On Earth as it is in Heaven), which aired publicly on RTV Slovenia in December of that year.