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Animated graduation film, Weeds, directed and animated by Pola Kazak has been nominated as part of the prestigious Czech Lion film awards for a Magnesia Award for best student film work 🍀.

FAMO film, The Compatriot, was one of 15 films to advance in the Live Action Short Film category for the 97th Academy Awards. Further selection will take place at the end of January 🤞. Our film joins Czech films Waves, directed by Jiri Madl, in the International Feature Film section as Czech representatives in 2025.

The young participants of the Unboxed Democratic Youth project took part in a week of practical Film Production training with at at FAMO in Pisek in Czechia, before heading onwards to Strasbourg, France to learn the basics in post production to piece together the details of their audio-visual work together into short films.

FAMO film, The Compatriot, directed by Pavel Sykora and Viktor Horak, was awarded GOLD 🥇 in the narrative section of the Student Academy Awards in London. The first students in the history of our school to be considered for this prestigious award, and the 4th in the Czech Republic since its establishment in 1972 😍👏🥳🍾🏆.

We’re still mind-blown 🤯 that our students (now graduates) Pavel Sýkora a Viktor Horák were awarded with a STUDENT ACADEMY AWARD (OSCAR)🏆🥳 for their film The Compatriot.

The graduate film The Compatriot, directed by Pavel Sýkora and Vikor Horák, has made it to the finals of the student Oscar!

This is South Bohemia, our home 🏠.

Animation major graduate and film director Kristina Dufková's feature film debut Living Large has won the Jury Award at Annecy film festival.

Animated graduation film 'Weeds' 🌿🍂 by FAMO's Pola Kazak hits the festival circuit.