Jubilee 15th ji. Hlava international documentary film festival

BETWEEN THE SEAS

Italian documentary producer Benzi (Guerra, dir. Pippo Delbono, 2003; Feltrinelli, dir. Alessandro Rossetto, 2006; I am not Me – Romeo, Juliet and the Others, dir. Paolo Santolini, 2011) is a leading figure at the independent production company Faber Film srl. In 2006, he participated in an Ateliers Varan documentary workshop in Paris, where he directed the short film Entre. Through his production company, he has helped produce Rumore Bianco (dir. Albert Fasulo, 2008) and Valentina Postika in Attesa di Partire (dir. Caterina Carone, 2009; prize for best Italian documentary at the Torino Film Festival). He also sat on this year’s “Cinema Suisse Jury” at the Vision du Réel festival in Nyon, Switzerland.

Screenwriter and dramaturgist Pavel Jech was born in Prague, but at a young age he emigrated with his parents to the United States, where he lived until 1990. While at New York’s Columbia University, he studied with Vojtěch Jasný. After returning to Czechoslovakia, he studied directing at FAMU, where he later taught as well. He wrote or co-wrote the screenplays to Act of War (dir. Robert Lee, 1997), Grandhotel (dir. David Ondříček, 2006) and The Muse is Terrible (2001), which he also directed. At FAMU International, he worked to increase foreign students’ interest in studying at the school. In 2008, he replaced Michal Bregant as the school’s dean.

Sönmez is the director of a documentary film festival in Istanbul. After studying aeronautical engineering, he worked as a film critic, photographer, and journalist before starting to shoot and produce documentary films. His debut work, Theo’s Gaze (2003) looked at the work of Greek director Theo Angelopoulos. His award winning To Make an Example of (2007) explored the reasons behind the death of the hundreds of people executed since the founding of the Turkish republic. Sönmez is founder of DOCUMENTARIST – Istanbul Documentary Days, which presents films from the Arab world, ethnographic documentaries, and films exploring the post-communist era. The festival also raises the issue of human rights in Turkey.

Film historian Aida Vallejo teaches at the Universidad del País Vasco’s Faculty of Fine Arts. Her specialization is on auteur documentaries, a field in which she has experience as a screenwriter, critic, researcher, and teacher. Vallejo graduated in Theory and Practice of Auteur Documentary Film from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, where she studied the narratology of contemporary documentary film and wrote her doctoral thesis in the Department of Film History. She spent seven years studying the aesthetics of contemporary documentary film and its distribution through the international film festival network, with a special emphasis on the eastern part of Europe.

CZECH JOY

Jiří David (* 1956)

Jiří David (b. 1956) is a Czech painter, photographer and writer, who has been contributing to the character and atmosphere of Czech art since the mid1980s. He was a leading figure in the formation of Czech postmodernism, he has co-founded the Tvrdohlaví art group. He employs the sign, occasionally accompanied by text, as his basic visual information. His works further employ drawing, the object, installation and primarily photography; his diverse body of work is linked by a performative approach and a tendency to provoke. His much discussed works include the photographic cycles Hidden Image and My Hostage as well as monumental neon installations The Glow, a crown of thorns above the Rudolfinum, and Heart on the Castle, a red heart above the Prague Castle. His Key Sculpture of 2010 symbolizes his polemic with the political development after the Velvet Revolution.

Josef Pazderka
Journalist, commentator, and Jihlava native Josef Pazderka studied history at Charles University’s Faculty of Arts and development studies at Oxford Brookes University. From 1999 to 2004, he worked for People in Need, spending two years at the head of a humanitarian mission to Chechnya. He was Czech Television’s Moscow correspondent from 2006 until his expulsion from the country in 2010. He is the editor of a book of interviews with Czech journalist Petra Procházková (A Journalist in the Wild East, 2008) and is a regular contributor to Respekt magazine and the Hospodářské noviny newspaper. While in Moscow, he filmed the documentary Invasion 1968. A Russian Perspective (2011), which looks at this central event in Czechoslovak history from the viewpoint of Russian citizens.

Terezie Pokorná (*1965)

TEREZIE POKORNÁ (b. 1965) graduated from theatre and film studies and participated in a whole range of independent cultural activities. In the early 1990s, she worked in the Independent Press Centre (Information Service, Respekt weekly), later in Revolver Revue, one of the leading magazines on the Czech cultural scene. From 1993, she has been chief editor of Revolver Revue and of the Revolver Revue book edition. In 1995, she co-founded the Revolver Revue Critical Supplement and became its chief editor. In the 1990s, she also worked in the Department for Czech Theatre Studies and in the Na zábradlí Theatre as dramatic adviser, cooperating primarily with Jan Grossman. She contributed to the publishing of numerous books; her studies and reviews have been published in the Literární noviny newspaper, Divadelní noviny newspaper and the Respekt weekly.

Ondřej Provazník (*1978) and Martin Dušek (*1978)

Directory: press -> 2011
press -> Draft I film Screening
press -> The milk carton kids
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press -> Press Release world meteorological organization
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press -> The project is part of the wider cooperation between Eni and Rosneft sanctioned under the Strategic Cooperation Agreement entered into by the parties on 25th April 2012
press -> El Niño’s Effects May Be Limited This Winter
press -> I am particularly pleased that my last year at Kunsthaus Bregenz was so successful. There are very few institutions in which the architecture, the staff, and the art encounter each other so productively

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