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Summer 2018 The Czech Film Fund is the main public financing body for cinema in the Czech Republic. The Fund supports all stages of film production, as well as promotion, distribution and other film-related areas. It also administers production incentives for audio-visual projects made in the Czech Republic. Apart from financing, the fund also includes two divisions for international activities: the Czech Film Center and the Czech Film Commission. The Czech Film Center promotes and markets Czech films and the local film industry worldwide. It collaborates with major international film festivals and co-production platforms and utilizes a global network of partners, seeking opportunities for creative exchange between Czech filmmakers and their international counterparts. The Czech Film Commission promotes the country with its film infrastructure as one of the world's top destinations for audio-visual production. As a comprehensive resource for filming in the Czech Republic, the commission provides incoming filmmakers with consultation, guidance, and contacts. Markéta Šantrochová Barbora Ligasová Vítězslav Chovanec Head of Czech Film Center Festival Relations-Feature Films Festival Relations- e-mail: [email protected] e-mail: [email protected] Documentary & Short Films tel.:+420 724 329 948 tel.: +420 778 487 863 e-mail: [email protected] tel.: +420 778 487 864 Jana Krivenkaja Helena Sedmidubská Project Manager Editor & External Communication e-mail: [email protected] e-mail: [email protected] tel.: +420 724 329 949 tel.: +420 777 501 562 Cannes IFF / Miloš Forman / Czech minority This April, a great filmmaker 6 coproduction, unexpectedly passed away: Fugue, to premiere Miloš Forman, the director of Loves at Semaine of a Blonde, Amadeus, and more de la Critique 4 Focus / Czech film 12 in women's hands, minds, and hearts 8 Cannes IFF / A newly restored version Diamonds of the Night, by Jan Němec, will be screened in the Cannes Classics showcase 19 Czech Film Springboard 2018 / New faces and established names prepare the Czech cinema of tomorrow 2 CZECH FILM NOW 26 INTERVIEW / ADAM SEDLÁK 10 RADOVAN SÍBRT / PRODUCER ON THE MOVE 28 FILM COMMISSION / REGIONAL FILM OFFICE 16 INTERVIEW / TOMÁŠ PAVLÍČEK 30 FUNDING NEWS 24 FOCUS / JIŘÍ TRNKA: THE PUPPET MASTER 33 FILMS TO COME 1 EDITORIAL zech cinema experienced both happy and sad moments this spring. We have lost two big names in our culture: Juraj Herz and Miloš Forman—both great directors, Even Mice Belong in Heaven Cgifted with an authentic way of seeing the world Films © Fresh and an original style. They had something else in Three Czech Projects Supported by Eurimages common, too: Both had their work featured in the One animation project and two feature films with Czech participation recently received grants from the Eurimages Fund. Cannes Film Festival. Herz’s drama Petroleum The two minority coproduction projects are The Disciple, by Ivan Lamps competed for the Palme d’Or at Cannes in Ostrochovský (Slovakia/Ireland/Czech Republic/Romania, 1972, while Forman’s first American movie, Taking €190,000) and Pardon, by Jan Jakub Kolski (Poland/Czech Off, won the Special Jury Award in 1971. You can Republic/Slovakia, €270,000), while the animation film is Even Mice read our profile of Miloš Forman on page 4. Belong in Heaven, by Jan Bubeníček and Denisa Grimmová (Czech Republic/France/Belgium/Slovakia, €370,000). This year, another big name of the Czechoslovak New Wave joins Cannes. A newly restored version of Diamonds of the Night, the debut film by director Domestique and Other Projects at Vilnius Meeting Point Jan Němec, the New Wave’s “enfant terrible,” who Three Czech projects were presented to festival curators, film passed away two years ago, will screen in the producers, sales agents, and distributors at the international prestigious Cannes Classics showcase. Another industry event Meeting Point – Vilnius, March 27–29: political drama By a Sharp Knife (Slovakia/Czech Republic), directed by movie with Czech participation screening in Cannes Teodor Kuhn and produced by Jakub Viktorín; the promising debut this year is Fugue, a psychological drama about Domestique, by director Adam Sedlák, working with producer a woman who has lost her memory. Directed by Jakub Jíra; and Japan, by director and producer Pavel Ruzyak. Agnieszka Smoczyńska from Poland, the film This year’s Vilnius platform, designed for debut filmmakers, hosted a total of 23 projects selected from throughout Europe. was made as a Czech coproduction with Karla Stojáková from Axman Production. Read more on page 6. Damon and Affleck Bought the Rights to the Series by Peter Bebjak Moreover, Czech producer Radovan Síbrt, Justice, a Czech-Slovak coproduced psychological crime coproducer of the Berlinale award-winning Touch miniseries (director Peter Bebjak, producer Rastislav Šesták) has Me Not, will join this year’s networking platform at been purchased for the U.S. market by Pearl Street Films, the firm Cannes, Producers on the Move. Read his story on owned by actors Matt Damon and Ben Affleck. In 2017, Justice received the Czech Lion for Best Television Film or Miniseries. page 10. There are also other new promising names in Czech cinema: See pages 26 and 16 for a closer look at up-and-coming talents Adam Sedlák and Tomáš Pavlíček. Happy reading, and please stay with us, wherever you are! © Czech Television Markéta Šantrochová Head of the Czech Film Center Czech Film Fund Justice 2 Czech Film CZECH FILM NOW Juraj Herz Czechs Meet Nyon Ice Mother Dominates 2017 This year’s international competition Czech Lions of the Visions du Réel (April 13–21) At the 25th Czech Lion Awards, held hosted the world premiere of March 10 in Prague, Ice Mother, the Latvian-Czech coproduction directed by Bohdan Sláma and documentary D Is for Division, produced by Petr Oukropec and Pavel Even Mice Belong in Heaven directed by Davis Simanis, produced Strnad (Negativ), took home honors in by Ego Media and Produkce Radim six categories: Best Film (Oukropec and Procházka. Czech producer Radovan Strnad/Negativ), Best Director (Sláma), Síbrt also scored, with two films in Best Screenplay (Sláma), Best Actress the program: Touch Me Not, the Czech in a Leading Role (Zuzana Krónerová), minority coproduction and Berlinale Best Actor in a Leading Role (Pavel Golden Bear winner by Adina Pintilie, Nový), and Best Actress in a Supporting in the main competition, and When Role (Petra Špalková). the War Comes, by Jan Gebert, in the Latitudes section. Barefoot, by Jan Svěrák, won four awards, including Best Cinematography ikimedia W (Vladimír Smutný) and Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Oldřich Kaiser). © Filthy, by Tereza Nvotová, was awarded Juraj Herz, R.I.P. Hot Czech Docs in Canada for Best Editing, and Milada by David Great loss for Czech cinema: Two Czech documentaries were Mrnka won Best Costume Design and director Juraj Herz passed away selected to be screened at The Hot Best Makeup and Hairstyling. The Lion on April 8, 2018, at age 83. He was Docs Canadian International for Best Documentary Feature went to best-known for his acclaimed film Documentary Festival, April 26–May 6, Cervena, directed by Olga Sommerová, Cremator (1968), based on as part of a new program called the produced by Pavel Berčík (Evolution the novel of the same name Changing Face of Europe, initiated by Films). The Magnesia Award for Best by Ladislav Fuks and starring European Film Promotion: The Russian Student Film went to Michal Blaško for Rudolf Hrušínský as a demented Job, by Petr Horký, and The White Atlantis, 2003. crematorium operator who World According to Daliborek, Vít collaborates with the Nazis Klusák’s stylized portrait of a Czech during World War II. Banned by neo-Nazi. Plus another Czech project Communist censors, the film was presented in the 2018 edition of the went unseen in Czechoslovakia Hot Docs Forum: Wishing on a Star, until 1989. directed by Peter Kerekes, produced by © Falcon Herz’s work in horror and dark Videomante (Italy), Mischief Films drama included the films (Austria), Artcam Films, (Czech Morgiana (1972), Beauty and the Republic), and Peter Kerekes (Slovak Beast (1978), and Ferat Vampire Republic). (1982). His 1971 drama Petroleum Lamps competed for the Palme Ice Mother d'Or at Cannes in 1972. The director’s last major work was Habermann’s Mill (2010), and © Krutart Animation Challenge at Anifilm recently he had begun This year’s edition of Anifilm IFF, May preparations for a new movie, 1–6, announced a slew of Czech films a narrative fairy tale based on listed in international competitions: the libretto of Mozart’s opera the feature length Laika (by Aurel The Magic Flute. Klimt) in the International Competition of Feature Films for Children; Charlie The Russian Job the Snowman's Christmas Wedding (by Petr Vodička) and Walking and Running (by Vít Pancíř) in the International Competition of Short Films; plus Chase (by Michaela Režová), Mukumu (by Pavla Baštanová), Red Riding Hood (by Martina Holcová), and Wandering Bondy (by Veronika Zacharová) in the International Competition of Student Films. Now Kiruna 2.0 Czech Film 3 FOCUS MILOILoŠS FORMAN © Film Festival Karlovy Vary Karlovy © Film Festival Loves of a Great Man: Miloš Forman 1932–2018 This April, a great filmmaker unexpectedly took his He was a man larger than life: his baritone voice strong, and his r’s rolled and leave: Miloš Forman, director of such unforgettable resounding. One believed when in his works as Loves of a Blonde and Amadeus, winner of presence that his first love was for people, and he made sure that everyone around every prestigious film award there is, from the Oscars him could feel it. to the Golden Globes, from Cannes to the Berlinale. He was a brilliant observer of human nature and Universal Sigh of Sadness So it was a universal sigh of sadness that a storyteller whose films overflowed with his love of reverberated across the globe at the news people.