Even during her student years, Hanna A. W. Slak received several Slovene and foreign awards for her short films. Her first feature film, Slepa Pega (Blind Spot, 2001), which she both wrote and directed, was awarded at the 2002 Cottbus Film Festival, and also received the Don Quixote Award and the Ecumenical Jury Awardbestowed by the International Cinematography Clubs Association (FICC). In 2006 she was preparing her second feature film Tea. In the year 2017 her feature film Rudar came out.