Viktorie Dzurenková was born in 1982 in Zvoleno. In 2005 she graduated from the Department of Esthetics and Art Education at the Faculty of Arts and Pedagogy at the Konštatntín Filozof University. The topic of her diploma thesis titled “More real than reality” was phenomenon of TV, its history up to the present, unique format of reality shows and difference between Czech and foreign reality shows. In 2005 she also finished her studies in film science at the Film and TV faculty of Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava. Between 2005 and 2007 she studied feature film directing at the Film and TV faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava. In 2008 she started her studies at the Directing Department of Faculty of Performing Arts in Prague (FAMU).

FILMOGRAPHY
films:
Romance – an ironic story of a girl who gets lost in her own romantic novel(2008)
Painting – love triangle between elderly lady who works as a painter and young married man (2009)
Merry Christmas – tragicomic story about illusion of Christmas happiness, love and peace (2009)
Wedding Dress – screenplay for a short feature film on the Crossing Boundaries topic, awarded International Goethe Institute grant award (2009)
First Night – short film on „coming out“ of woman in her forties (2009)
Eva‘s Music – grotesque love triangle, a film about naive desire and disillusion that follows after it had been fulfilled (2009)
Daughters of Stalinism – documentary, a part about Margita Zimanová, a daughter of Slovak political prisoner executed in 50s (2010)
awards:
Goethe Institut international grant award for short feature film Wedding Dress

Petr Hátle was born in 1983 in Prague. After short episode at the Faculty of Liberal Arts of Charles University he started studying at the Documentary Department at Film and TV School of Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. He is now in Turkey on an internship.

FILMOGRAPHY:
directing:
• Hiltonleaving (2006)
• Fortress Visitors (2006)
• Heroes – Das Concept, (2008)
• Make up (2009)

awards:
Heroes – Das Concept – screened in a main competition of International Festival of Documentary Film in Jihlava, awarded with 2nd price in a category of professional film for authors up to 30 years at the festival Young camera, Uničov 2009

After the high school she started studying college in Písek. She graduated with her 15 minutes feature film “Date in Three” based on the script of Zdeňka Vacková. Shortly afterwards she started studying Media studies and Journalism at the Faculty of Social Sciences at Masaryk University in Brno, she is now finishing. During her studies she was on internship in the News redaction of Czech Television in Brno. She is also a student at the Department of Screenwriting and Script Editing of Film and TV Faculty of Academy of Performing Arts (FAMU). Between 2006 and 2009 she worked in IBM Brno as an IT specialist. At the moment she is employed at the information office of the National Theater in Prague.

DIRECTORS’S FILMOGRAPHY:
• Justice is in God’s Hand, screenplay directing in cooperation with Viktoria Dzurenková ,documentary from the TV series „Children of Stalnism“, (2010).

• Roommates. screenplay and directing, short feature film, (2010), in progress

She was born in Prague in 1978. In 1997 she graduated from Josef Škvorecký literary high school. After she graduated she worked as a computer graphic designer. In 2009 she finished her master‘s studies at the Department of Screenwriting and Script Editing of Film and TV School of Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (FAMU).

DIRECTOR’S FILMOGRAPHY:
films:
• Sweet Dreams, short feature film (2005)
• Prague-Paris, short documentary(2006)
• A Fish with an Egg in the Knickers, short feature film (2007)
• Survive Retirement, mid-lenght documentary for EU (2007)
• Seconds, documentary (2008)
• For My Dad, documentary for Czech TV (2009)

Unrealized screenplays:
• Max Moore, short feature film (2005)
• Black Monk, short adaptation(2005)
• One woman, man, and one child,, feature-length adaptation (2006)
• Reflections of Sounds, feature film (2007)
• Pain in the Chest, feature film (2009)

awards:
Czech weekly Literární noviny award for screenplay of Reflections of Sounds (2007)

Josef Tuka was born in 1979 in České Budějovice. In 2005 he graduated from Theater faculty JAMU in Brno in Radio and TV dramaturgy. He was awarded a Dean’s Prize for author film production. Year later he started studying the Faculty of Directing at the Film and TV School of Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (FAMU). After completion of bachelor’s degree he started studying his masters at the same faculty. He cooperates with Czech Television and production companies Sunfilms, Lovecraft and multimedia redaction of Czech Radio. He lives and studies in Prague.

FILMOGRAPHY:
directing:
• Little Threads, videofilm JAMU (2004)
• Zuzka, videofilm JAMU (2005)
• Leaving. short film FAMU ( 2007)
• At the Perfumery, short film FAMU (2007)
• 24 pictures , video documentary FAMU (2008)
• Fretting, TV film FAMU (2008)
• Sahara Sands, bachelor’s graduate film FAMU (2009)
• Journey to My Father, documentary from the series „Children of Stalinism“ (2010)

He was born in Prague in 1978. In 1996 he graduated from the Postupnická high school in Prague 4. After the graduation he studied medicine and Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at Czech Technical University in Prague, he worked as an elementary school teacher and taught drama in a theater circle. In 1995 he became a member of theater company POVOLVOX. In 2009 he graduated from Film and TV School of Academy of Performing Arts in Prague.

DIRECTOR’S FILMOGRAPHY:
screenplay, directing, editing:
• Horse Race, short feature film, 5 min. (2003)
• Garden, short feature film, 7 min., (2003)
• Obstetrician – Gravedigger, documentary, 20 min (2004)
• Lonely place, short feature film, 15 min. (2005)
• Old Men, short feature film, 7 min. (2005)
• Hitchhikers, documentary – feature film, 21 min. (2007)

• Survive Retirment, mid-length documentary for EU (2007)
• Parliament, documentary for parliamnet of Czech Republic, 30 min (2008), directing
• Cobblestone, short feature film, 10 min., (2008) theme, directing, editing
• Ferda, feature film, 20 min, (2009) directing, editing
• For My Dad, documentary, 26 min, for Czech TV (2009), directing

Iva Jestřábová (1983) English studies graduate from Charles University in Prague, currently studying dramaturgy and script-writing at Film and TV School of Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (FAMU). Thanks to her father’s work in diplomatic service she spent most of her childhood abroad – she has lived in Denmark, Norway, and India. She also works as a translator and scriptwriter.

FILMOGRAPHY
script:
• Wireless World (Cisco), director: Benjamin Tuček (2004)
• Jů a Hele, screenplay for children series (2008–2009)
• Food story, cooperation on scriptwriting for CET21 series (2009)
• Fame to the Winners, screenplay for feature-length film, awarded RWE Barrandov prize (June 2009)

scripts and directing:
• Behind the doors, short film starring Gabriela Vránová (2005)
• Conversations educational film for Children’s crises center (2007)
• One Life documentary from the „Children of Stalinism“ series(2009)

awards:
RWE Barrandov Prize –screenplay for feature-length film Fame to the Winners

Adéla Kroupová (born in 1979) graduated from Faculty of Arts at the University of Ostrava in Literary science and Czech literature. She is now finishing her studies at the Department of Screen Writing and Script Editing at the Film and TV School of Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. She writes screenplays for feature films and does the directing occasionally. She loves animals and cowboys.

FILMOGRAPHY:
Feature-length screenplays:
• Demons, Demons(2004)
• Rooster(2005) – backed by the State fund for promotion and development of cinematography
• Admirable Magician (2006) – awarded by Czech weekly Literární noviny
• Nutria Breeder (2009) – in progress
• Dreadnought (2009) -– backed by a State fund for promotion and development of cinematography

directing:
• Zárubek (2003), documentary sketch, 12 min.
• Old Legend (2004), documentary combined with feature film, 12 min. – screened at Fresh Film Festival
• Czech See (2004), feature film done in cooperation with Czech TV, 26min. – screened at Rosa Rosa festival in Bologna, Italy
• Horse Woman (2008), documentary, 19 min.
• Sightseeing Flight (2008), short feature film, 20min.
• The Very First Cowboy (2009), documentary, 50min., in progress

awards:
Czech weekly Literární noviny award for a screenplay to a film “Admirable magician“(2006)