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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.

Animation major Poly Kazak's graduation film 'Weeds' will have its world premiere at the Festival de Cannes in the La Cinef section. A film made using the glass painting technique will be the only Czech representative in the official selection of the world's most famous film festival! 😮 I'll take my hat off to that! 🎩

We love making new friends and partnering on different international projects 🗺️. We just got back from Vilnius, Lithuania, where we were busy planning the next 17 months of the project 'Unboxed Democratic Youth'.