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MAIA

MARTINIAK

PERSONAL DATA

Name and surname: Ing. Mgr. art. Mária Martiniaková (artist name Maia Martiniak)

Address: Trstínska 4B, 841 06 Bratislava, SLOVAKIA - EUROPE

Telephone number: + 421 907 463 006

E-mail: [email protected]

Date of birth: 17/06/1977

Nationality: Slovak

EDUCATION

09/2009 ‒ 06/2016 Academy of Performing Arts, Bratislava, Slovakia

Film and Television Faculty, Directing documentary ﬁlm

Graduated in: Directing documentary ﬁlm

09/1995 ‒ 09/2001 Technical University, Košice, Slovakia

Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Department of Industrial Engineering

Graduated in: Industrial engineer

Specialisation: Technical and economic focus on project preparation and management

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

01/2010 ‒ present DIRECTOR OF AUDIO-VISUAL WORKS

Creative idea processing, screenplay, directing, postproduction.

10/2013 ‒ present CREATIVE PRODUCER OF AUDIO-VISUAL WORKS

Preparation of projects and budgets, communication between the client and the production crew,

project ﬁnancing, creative fulﬁlment of the director's intention, festival and distribution strategy.

05/2004 ‒ present PRODUCTION MANAGER OF EVENTS, FESTIVALS, TELEVISION PROJECTS AND AUDIOVISUAL WORKS

Preparation of projects and budgets, planning and scheduling of activities, communication between

the client and the production crew, organisation of production and postproduction,

preparation of ideas according to the client's request.

06/2000 ‒ 10/2002 PROJECT MANAGER

Marketing department at Fajn Production s.r.o., Záhorská Bystrica ‒ Bratislava, Slovakia

Design and implementation of projects, preparation and implementation of budgets,

production of advertising & corporate events as well as cultural & social events for the public.

1 DIRECTOR ‒ DOCUMENTARY

• ﬁlm about disrespect, manipulation, and violence at childbirth: UNSEEN, © ARINA s.r.o., Mediapulz s.r.o., RTVS 2020

• ﬁlm about the natural process of the watchful waiting method in miscarriage: MORNING OF BUTTERFLIES (22:11), © Film and

Television Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts 2016

• ﬁlm about the work of People in Peril in Kenya: GREEN TRANSITION (27:00), © People in Peril, Mediapulz s.r.o. , RTVS 2015

• ﬁlm about UNICEF educational projects in Uganda: PYCO IN UGANDA ‒ HELP FOR AFRICA (33:43), © Slovenská produkčná a.s.

2013

• ﬁlm about natural births: ZUNA (37:37), © Film and Television Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts 2012

• issues of the vaccination of children in Slovakia: TRADING WITH FEAR (16:35), © Film and Television Faculty of the Academy of

Performing Arts 2012

• ﬁlm about breast cancer: C50 (11:50), © Film and Television Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts 2011

• reportage on light pollution: LOOKING FOR THE DARKNESS (16:37), © Film and Television Faculty of the Academy of Perform-

ing Arts 2011

• meditation on death with poll elements: WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO YOU.. (08:50), © Film and Television Faculty of the Academy

of Performing Arts 2010

DIRECTOR ‒ FEATURE FILM

• ﬁlm about seeking, love, and spirituality in everyday life: DARK NIGHT (24:23), © Film and Television Faculty of the Academy of

Performing Arts 2013

DIRECTOR ‒ MUSIC VIDEOS

• KOLO ROKA ‒ Wild woman, © Mediapulz 2018

• MAOK ‒ Under the surface, © Mediapulz 2014

• ENIESA ‒ Vhodení, © Mediapulz 2013

DIRECTOR ‒ VIDEO SPOTS

• GHOSTZIP'S DAY (mood video for Gavulka), 08/2017

• SOURDOUGH (mood video for Zdravé pečenie), 06/2017

• MICRO3GENERATION (promotional video for Energy Changes, Austria), 04/2016

• CD PÁNKO (videos for a crowdfunding music campaign for a music project), 05/2015

• SlovakAid, EuropeAid, and BE FAIR (TV spots for the Slovak NGO Development Organisations Platform), 04/2015

• BONDING ‒ bonding between a mother and her child (TV spot for Women's circles), 09/2014

• NIKOLA TESLA ‒ trailer for interactive exhibition ENERGIA (video spot for the CEEV Živica), 08/2014

• BE FAIR ‒ campaign to support NGO's projects (video spots for the Slovak NGO Development Organisations Platform), 01/2014

DIRECTOR ‒ TV BROADCAST

• GREEN TRANSITIONS, RTVS 2, Slovakia, TV premiere 8/10/2016

• TRADING WITH FEAR, TV TA3, Slovakia, TV premiere 29/12/2013

• PYCO IN UGANDA ‒ HELP FOR AFRICA, TV JOJ, Slovakia, TV premiere 16/04/2013

DOCUMENTARY ‒ FESTIVALS

• UNSEEN, National premiere at One world, November 2020, Bratislava, Slovakia

• UNSEEN, World premiere at CPH:DOX, 20/03/2020, Copenhagen, Denmark

2 • MORNING OF BUTTERFLIES in the section “Lexicon: Woman's View”, International Film Festival Bratislava, 30/11/2018, Bratis-

lava, Slovakia

• MORNING OF BUTTERFLIES category EAST DOC, BEAST International Film Festival, 23/09/2017, Porto, Portugal

• MORNING OF BUTTERFLIES category “Documentary Film”, JAHORINA FILM FESTIVAL, September 20‒23/09/2017, Pale, Serbia

• MORNING OF BUTTERFLIES category “Zlin Dog Documentary”, Zlin Film Fest, 26/05‒03/06/2017, Zlin, Czech Republic

• MORNING OF BUTTERFLIES category “Short Stories”, “Premio Fausto Rossano per il Pieno Diritto alla Salute”, 01/03/2017,

Naples, Italy

• GREEN TRANSITIONS oﬃcial selection in the category of documentary ﬁlm at the Green Screen Environmental Film Festival, 2-

10/11/2017, Trinidad and Tobago

• GREEN TRANSITIONS ﬁnalist in the category “Short Documentaries/TV Documentaries” at the 10th International Kuala Lumpur

Eco Film Festival 2017 (KLEFF2017), 23-29/10/2017, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

• GREEN TRANSITIONS Grand Prize in the category “Best Documentary Film”, Sunlight International Film Festival, 25/11/2017,

Berlin, Germany

• GREEN TRANSITIONS Grand Prize at the Agroﬁlm International Film Festival, 5-8/10/2016, Nitra, Slovakia

• GREEN TRANSITIONS Slovak premiere in the section Fair World, One World, Bratislava (premiere 29/11/2015), Slovakia

• ZUNA 42th Lubuskie Film Summer, Lagow, Poland (30/06/ -7/ 07/ 2013)

• ZUNA student ﬁlms festival ÁČKO 2012, Bratislava, Slovakia

• ZUNA One World Film Festival, Bratislava (3‒9/12/2012), section: Women on the Front Line, Slovakia

• LOOKING FOR THE DARKNESS 18th international environmental ﬁlm festival, ENVIROFILM, Slovakia (14-19/05/2012)

• WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO YOU... 24th Trieste Film Festival ‒ “Eastweek Showreel”, Trieste, Italy (19‒27/01/2013)

DOCUMENTARY ‒ PUBLIC PROJECTIONS

• ZUNA World Week of Respect for Childbirth: Childbirth does not matter, Malacky, Slovakia, 23/05/2014

• ZUNA World Week of Respect for Childbirth, Prague, Czech Republic, 24/05/2014

• ZUNA Premiere of FREEDOM FOR BIRTH with ﬁlm ZUNA 21/09/2012

• ZUNA Conference “Active Parenting”, Brno, Czech Republic (20/09/2012)

• C50 ﬁlm donated to Liga proti rakovine

• LOOKING FOR THE DARKNESS the Congress of the Slovak Astronomical Society, Banská Bystrica, SR, 2011

• LOOKING FOR THE DARKNESS lecture of Ing. Pavel Ďuriš at the Discovery of the Slovak National Museum, Bratislava, Slovakia,

2011

PRODUCER of MEDIAPULZ s.r.o. ‒ PROJECTS

3 PRODUCTION MANAGER ‒ FREELANCER FOR COMPANIES

• Slovenská produkčná s.r.o. (TV JOJ), J&J JAKUBISKO FILM EUROPE Production s.r.o., STS s.r.o. (TV Markíza), Hitchhiker Films s.r.o.,

Forza Production House s.r.o., Kuul Kult s.r.o., Quinta Essentia s.r.o., Bubble Production House s.r.o.

PRODUCTION MANAGER ‒ PROJECTS

• Audio-visual works: Perinbaba 2, Pyco in Uganda ‒ Help for Africa

• TV series and programmes: Uhorčík, Delukse, Naši, Panelák, Smotánka, Na streche

• music festival OKEY LETO, events for the presidential campaign of Iveta Radičová, company events

• music video PARTY DJ (Dara Rolins)

HOBBIES AND OTHER INTERESTS

• Foreign languages (English ‒ ﬂuent)

• Driving licence: B group

• Hard-working, ﬂexible, team player

• Active computer skills (DaVinci Resolve Studio, Lightroom, Internet; Microsoft Oﬃce, Helios)

• Travelling (Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Mexico, Ecuador, Mongolia, China, Vietnam, Malaysia, Thailand, Nepal, Australia)

• Photography (exhibition Sain baina uu Mongolia 2008, shopping centre Aupark ‒ Bratislava; photojournalism in magazines and

web portals, photo headlines in Vitalita magazine)

CHARITY

06/2015 CD PÁNKO (videos for a crowdfunding music campaign)

05/2015 documentary about the work of People in Peril in Kenya:

04/2015 EuropeAid, SlovakAid, and BE FAIR (TV spots for the Slovak NGO Development Organisations Platform)

09/2014 BONDING 2014 (TV spots for civic organisation Women's circles)

08/2014 NIKOLA TESLA ‒ trailer for interactive exhibition ENERGIA (teaser for an interactive exhibition of CEEV Živica)

01/2014 BE FAIR (campaign to support NGO projects for The Slovak NGO Development Organisations Platform)

07/2013 Journalistic trip to Rwanda (The Slovak NGO Development Organisations Platform)

10/2013 PYCO IN UGANDA ‒ HELP FOR AFRICA (documentary pre UNICEF Slovakia, TV JOJ)

01/2006 ‒ 10/2009 External producer for the Center for Environmental and Ethical Education ŽIVICA Bratislava, Slovakia

Co-organiser of the eco-festival DYCH ZEME (head manager 2006 ‒ 2008)

07/2007 ‒ 10/2007 Volunteer under the GLEN 2007 programme (www.glen-europe.org), Murun, Mongolia