Patrik Ulrich

MgA. Patrik Ulrich (born 1988) first studied screenwriting and dramaturgy with writer Lenka Procházková at FAMO in Písek, where he found a passion for writing. In his follow-up master’s studies, he devoted himself exclusively to film directing, which he completed in the studio of Prof. Juraj Jakubiska. He is the author of several short feature films and documentaries, for
which he also composed musical illustrations.

He currently works as a director for Czech Television, where he focuses mainly on documentary and music projects. As he has been devoted to music, composition, and playing the piano since childhood, he is often approached as a director of broadcasts of symphony concerts and other stage productions. With his Studio Inspirativ team, or in the production of Czech Television, he filmed a whole series of concert recordings, streams, and music programs. He cooperates with the Czech Philharmonic, the ČNSO, and various regional orchestras (Pardubice Chamber Philharmonic, Karlovy Vary Symphony Orchestra).

Even though he lives in Prague, he often returns to his native Pardubice, where he has already shot several prized documentary films. In his spare time, he plays the piano and composes chanson songs and film music. During his studies, he pointed out the theme of the dysfunctionality of the family, which he worked on in two successful films (Moji draží, Soukromé lekce), which were awarded at several domestic and foreign festivals. He also worked on the theme of the dysfunctionality of the family in his yet-to-be-realized feature-length screenplay “Family Silver”. He made an academic portrait of his mentor Juraj Jakubiska, “Three Graces”, and is also the author of the script for the short animated fairy tale “O Zlatém dešti”, voiced by actor Pavel Liška. He created more than two dozen documentary films and portraits on Czech television as a screenwriter and director.

His complete filmography can be found at: https://www.csfd.cz/tvurce/66078-patrik-ulrich

Jakub Hejna is a film editor and director. He studied at the Písek film school and then at FAMU in Prague, majoring in film editing. He is the founder of the Young Film post-production studio.

As an editor, he participated in several successful documentaries and feature films, such as Women for Currency (dir. Erika Hníková, 2004); The Search for Ester (dir. Věra Chytilová, 2005); René (dir. Helena Třeštíková, 2008); Katka (dir. Helena Třeštíková, 2009); Fair Play (dir. Andrea Sedláčková, 2014); The Pit (dir. Jiří Stejskal, 2014); Red (dir. Olga Sommerová, 2017); Dukla61 (dir. David Ondříček, 2018), etc.

His feature-length documentary debut Divadlo Svoboda (dir. Jakub Hejna, 2011) was nominated in the Best Documentary category (Czech Lion 2011 and Czech Film Critics Award 2011). Together with Helena Třeštíková, he directed the film Destruction by Beauty (2016), about the life of actress Lída Baarová, and the documentary film Forman vs Forman (2019), charting the life of director Miloš Forman, which had its world premiere at the Festival de Cannes 2019.

Ludvik Bohadlo is CEO, production sound mixer, and postproduction coordinator of leading sound production company SLEEPWALKER, s.r.o. based in Prague, Czech Republic.

He comes from a family with a deep performing arts tradition. Both parents were acrobats andhis sister is a flute player in the National Theater and State Opera of Prague. Working in the music and film industry for two decades, Ludvík Bohadlo experienced every single stage of music and sound production. From classics to heavy metal, from documentaries to international feature films. Thanks to his excellent professional as well as physical skills he’s been working on challenging projects in extreme climate conditions of remote areas all over the world including high altitudes above 6,000 m. His unique communication and organizational skills helped him to lead sound production teams of international feature films and quality TV production. His deep interest in music, humanities, and historical theology gives him a broader perspective on the art of motion pictures.

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“I think I applied myself very successfully in the field of film sound since my graduation from FAMO in Písek. I worked my way up from a sound assistant to a sound master, founded the SLEEPWALKER sound studio, which provides sound services for domestic and foreign productions and is an important co-producer of European films. In 2020, my colleague Robert Slezák and I won the Latvian national award for the best film sound for the film “The Sign Painter / Pilsāta pi upis. The demanding work in the film industry still fulfills me, even though lately I’ve been working more on studio production than sound work itself. I enjoy being with film projects from the very beginning of the scripts and from the position of co-producer helping to bring new film stories to the world.

FAMO was important to me because it transformed a film fan into a creator. I have always enjoyed “consuming” stories, whether in literary or film form. Then suddenly I was able to stand on the other side of the camera and create the cinematic stories myself. Film and TV shoots have taken me to all the continents of the world and brought me many lifelong friends. Belonging to an imaginary filmmaking family that breaks down cultural and language barriers is an important life anchor for me.

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In 2001 Jana graduated from the Film Academy of Miroslav Ondříček in Písek. After less than two years, she left for the United States of America, where she later continued her studies at the University of San Francisco. She studied photography and later photojournalism. On her travels, mainly in Africa and Asia, she often collaborates with non-profit organizations and documents their projects and humanitarian activities, currently mostly in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

During her past projects, she has visited Bangladesh, Guatemala, Malta, Mexico, Nepal, Puerto Rico, Rwanda, Uganda, and many more countries. In her reports, which she works on independently, she then focuses on social issues, especially issues related to minorities and women.

She regularly photographs projects in the Czech Republic, mainly in the region of South Bohemia, where she comes from. She publishes her reports at home and abroad, among other things, she takes photos for the Reuters agency and others. In the Czech Republic, she regularly collaborates with the magazine Lidé a Země.

She continues to regularly post and update her socials on her current projects.
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Selma Ročková graduated from the Miroslav Ondříček Film Academy in Písek – majoring in Audiovisual Creation and received a Master of Arts degree with a focus on film science at the Graduate Center in New York.

Since her studies, she has been involved in production in film, television work, and advertising. As an external producer at the advertising agencies Saatchi&Saatchi and Falon, she collaborated on the creation of advertisements like T-Mobile, Škoda auto, NN, or Hypoteční
banka. Since 2012, she has been a member of the teaching staff at FAMO in Písek, where she lectures in the production studio to both Czech and foreign students.

She has been representing actors since 2014. She has been fully engaged in this activity since 2016, and in 2020, the brand Selma for Actors was created. Selma for Actors represents professional actors and acting students, provides advice to unrepresented actors, and co-organizes workshops and lectures for actors who want to deepen their artistic and practical skills needed to function in the audiovisual industry. Together with Lenka Daňková, she initiated the establishment of the AHA Association of Actors’ Agents.

Viktor Prášil began studying at the Miroslav Ondříček Film Academy in Písek in 2007. He graduated in 2011 with a Bachelor’s Degree in Sound Production.

He started working in the film industry while he was studying at school in 2009. From this year forward, he actively participated in many professional shoots and post-production of sound.

• In 2015, he worked as a sound engineer in the filming of the HBO TV series “Manom”.
• In 2016, he worked on the film “Polednice”, for which he was nominated for the bestsound at the Czech Lion Awards.
• In 2017, he did sound mixing on another film “Po strništi bos”, where he was able to workwith famous Czech director, Jan Svěrák. Additionally, he worked in the mini-TV series “Dukla 61”.
• In 2018, he worked on the film “Zlatý Podraz”, which was nominated for a Czech Lion Award, and he also worked on the HBO TV series “Therapy”.
• In 2019, his sound mixing work on the film “Painted Birds” was nominated and won the Czech Lion for best sound.
• In 2020, he got to work with Netflix on the TV series “Letter to the King”. He also worked on a film called “Havel”, which received a best sound nomination that year.
• In 2021, he worked on Netflix’s “Army of the Dead” and “Medieval” films.
• In 2022, he was nominated for an Academy Award for Sound on “Quiet on the Western Front”.

Vilém Postránecký completed a five-year study of production at FAMO in Písek in 2011, with the title MgA. As part of school projects, he achieved the greatest success thanks to the graduation film “Battle” (3rd year), with which he won two awards at the Night of Film Hopes 2010 competition – the most successful film among the audience and 3rd place in the jury’s evaluation. Furthermore, his films “Citizen of Kopas” (2010) and Master’s film “Village of the Year” (2011) were two years in a row nominated for the Magnesia Award for the best student film in the annual Czech Lion Awards. “Village of the Year” was also the first student film in the Czech Republic to have an official internet premiere on Stream.cz, where the film received over 400,000 views within two days. At the very beginning of his studies, he created a creative team with classmates who still form a significant part of his “family”, headed by Vojtěch Moravec, David Hahn, Tomáš Klímek, Jan Drnk, Viktor Prášil, and others.

During his studies, his professional practice began mainly on Czech television projects, such as the series “Black Ambulance” (director of the filming of the documentary part) and “Cesty domú” (location/production assistant). After school, he continued television work as a production assistant for the TV series “Vyprávej”. As part of a full-length feature work, he worked as a filming supervisor on the film “The Storyteller”, directed by Vladimír Michálek. For the time being, he ended his series journey as the head of production of the series “Všechny moje lásky”.

Since then he and his former classmate at FAMO, Ctibor Poub, formed a production company called AdWood Advertising, which creates advertisements for clients such as Vodafone, T-Mobile, Innogy, Moneta, etc. In 2015, he worked on two big German projects, the historical films “Berlin 1” and “Die Daslerss – Adidas vs. Puma”, where he gained great experience in the field of foreign films as a filming manager. In the meantime, from school until today, he collaborated on dozens of other projects, from music video clips, through the production of three years of the Český Tučňák young arts festival, and on internet series, like “Vyšehrad” etc.

After graduating from the Eliška Krásnohorská Gymnasium in Prague, Vratislav Pecka passed his final exam at the Editing department at the SVOŠF in Písek. During his studies, however, his interest turned more towards graphic design. In 2009, he created the current SVOŠF logo. He
was the author of the complete visual style of the Film Festival in Písek (2009-2011). After a short study at the animation department at FAMO, he started working full-time as a graphic designer.

After more than ten years of typical work as a freelance graphic designer, he decided to devote himself fully to his artistic creation. He regularly posts his work on his Instagram account @posterlad – www.instagram.com/posterlad to his 400k+ followers and sells them on his e-shop ( www.posterlad.com ). During the five years of working on the PosterLad project, he had the opportunity to cooperate with several brands – e.g. Pringles, Hewlett Packard, Adobe, H&M, or Julius Meinl. He has also been awarded two international design awards for his work. His works have been exhibited at several festivals and exhibitions in Europe, the USA, Ecuador, and China.

Vratislav uses his knowledge of editing composition and the basics of animation when creating digital art, so-called NFTs, which he publishes on the world’s most prestigious platform, SuperRare. “I remember my studies in Písek really fondly. Not only did I leave my home in Prague for the first time and try life in another city, but above all I met great people in Písek, with whom I work and see to this day. I liked the whole study that we were pushed into the practical use of the acquired knowledge. I tried all possible editing disciplines and after my graduation, I was ready to work in both television, film, and advertising. Although I eventually chose a career as a designer, no one can take away from the knowledge and experience I gained from Písek.”

Matěj Pichler, born on April 5, 1988, in Vimperk, Czech Republic, is an ambitious young author and director. After graduating from the gymnasium school in Vimperk, he joined the Miroslav Ondříček Film Academy in Písek, where he studied feature film directing. In many cases, his school projects were inspired by the literary works of well-known Czech authors (e.g. Jan Werich, Jaroslav Foglar, Michal Viewegh, and Karel Jaromír Erben).

After completing his studies at FAMO in Písek, he started working with the music station Óčko. He also produced and directed several TV shows and commercials for companies like Czech Post, Jägermeister, and iNELS. Lasr but not least, he directed video clips of the Slovak singer Kristína, konkrétně Si pre mňa best, Ta Ne and Rozchodový reggaeton.

Matěj Pichler passes on his practical experience as a teacher to students and future filmmakers at Czech secondary film schools.

In 2014, he founded the production company Drive Film Factory, where he works as an executive producer and director. Under the patronage of Drive Film Factory, he released his feature directorial debut Daria in 2020, which, although it caused a lot of controversy, won several awards at film festivals around the world.