Born in Opočno in 1943. His father was Alois Fišárek, famous Czech painter and professor at the Academy of Arts in Prague. Under the influence of his family background, and having successfully completed his middle education, he moved to Prague where he graduated from FAMU’s department of film editing in 1968. Between 1965 and 1972 he worked as editor for the Czechoslovak Army Film and 1974-1996 for the Short Film company. Between 1968 and 2002 he taught at FAMU where he was head of the department of editing. Currently he teaches at the Miroslav Ondříček Academy in Písek. He was awarded the Czech Lion for his editing work on films such as Akumulátor 1, Kolja, Canary, Dark Blue World and Kuky’s Return.
Born 18th May 1947 in Prague. In 1973 he graduated in film and television direction from FAMU. From 1974 he worked as a director for Czechoslovak Army Film, from 1985 for Kratky Film (Short Film), and in 1992 he founded his own production company, Video Golem, which was transformed to Made by Golem company in 2011. His work, distinguished by a documentarist’s promptness, lively interest in everything around him and primarily by his ability to find topics of interest and to formulate them, counts around 320 titles - films ranging from shorter than ten minutes to one hour long. He is a creator of a range of many-parts documentary series as, for example, The Story of Czech and Slovak Photography, Czechs Underground part I and II, and A Journey Towards Victory. He was awarded a number of prizes at international festivals and at home.
Martina is a marketing consultant specialising in online media communication strategies of small and medium-size companies. She is also a lecturer on presentation skills. She has, twelve years experience working, in a managerial capacity, for companies specialising in information technology. For eight years she had a successful career fighting software piracy. She studied marketing and PR communication at VSMVV. Since 2008 she has been specialising in the communication between companies and their clients through online communication. Together with her clients she has created dozens of brand identities and internet projects for companies where photographs and multimedia play a major part.
film producer, owner of the Simply Cinema company and member of the Kaplicky Centre Endowment Fund Board of Directors.
Born in 1978 in Prague. She studied at FAMU, specializing in film and television production. She has extensive experience of international film distribution and trade, which she has applied in her roles as director of the independent film distribution company, Artcam, and Sales Director for the commercial television station, Nova. She has a strong background in film production and a sophisticated entrepreneurship in film, which has brought her a number of awards in the Czech Republic and also abroad. She has independently produced music videos, television commercials, charity campaigns and documentary films. The most recent film she produced was the award-winning ‘Oko nad Prahou’/Eye over Prague, directed by Olga Špátová, which won the Best Documentary Film category at the International Film Festival in Warsaw in 2010.
Born 2nd August 1949 in Prague. Olga graduated from FAMU in documentary filmmaking. From 1991-2002 she taught at FAMU (Film and Television School of Academy of Performing Arts). In 1994 she was made Head of the Department of Documentary Film, which she held for eight years. She was confirmed a principle lecturer on the basis of her lecture Documentary Film - My Love. From 2005 to 2009 she lectured as associate professor at the Banska Bystrica Academy of Art in Slovakia. She’s made over one hundred documentary films and has been awarded more than forty prizes at international film festivals in the Czech Republic and abroad. Her films deal with social themes and interpersonal relationships, important personalities and social and artistic phenomena. She is currently the Chairwoman of the Film and Television Union (Fites) and a councillor at Prague 7 Town Hall for the Green Party.
Miro Svolik was born in Zlate Moravcie in Slovakia in 1960 and now lives in Prague. He studied photography for four years at the Middle Art School in Bratislava and six years at FAMU in Prague. He’s been a freelance art photographer since 1988, and since 2009 he’s been teaching at the School of Art in Bratislava, where he is the head of the Department of Creative Photography. In 1990 he was awarded the Young Photographer, Sixth Annual Infinity Awards at ICP in New York. Since 1984 he’s had around sixty solo exhibitions and participated in around 200 group exhibitions. His photographs have been shown in many European countries and in the USA. In 2005 he published a book of his black and white analogue photographs called A Journey into the Middle. He likes to photograph from a bird’s-eye perspective and makes collages and montages with his photographs. In the last five years he’s been making his photo-montages in the computer. His latest digital photographs were published in 2010 in a catalogue called Big Woman, Small Man. www.mirosvolik.cz
camera operator and photographer
Born in Prague in 1950. Graduate of the Cinematography Department at FAMU in Prague. Following completion of his studies in 1974, he worked for Krátký film Praha as a camera assistant, then later as a camera operator. He has co-operated regularly with Czech Television since 1990. That same year, he became a founding member of the photography group SIGNUM, which has held exhibitions in Germany, France, Italy and Israel. In 1997, he filmed the series Příběh české a slovenské fotografie/The Story of Czech and Slovak Photography (dir. Josef Harvan), in 1996 – 1998 the 77-part documentary series on Czech history Kronika česká/Czech Chronicle (dir. Maxmilián Petřík).With director, Josef Harvan, he filmed the Podzemní Čechy (Underground Bohemia) I-II. In 2008 – 2010 he worked as a camera operator on the series, 72 jmen ćeské historie/72 names of Czech history, documentaries on the figures whose names are inscribed on the outside walls of the National Museum in Prague. Over his professional life thus far, he has filmed over five hundred documentaries on art, architecture, the countryside, aviation, and also educational and scientific films. Some of the films he has been involved with have won the top prize at various film festivals.