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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'.

FAMO graduate Jan Vejnar, along with Tomas Pavlicek won 🏆 the Best Director Award, at the Czech Lion 🦁 Awards 2024 🥳 for their chilling horror comedy She Came at Night 🫣🎬.

Czech Television's Film Accelerator is approaching. A presentation of our students' graduation projects took place in the school cinema. The selected projects will subsequently fight for co-production and financial support from Czech TV in competition with other film schools.

FAMO in Písek graduate Jan Vejnar's new film "Přišla v noci" won three Czech Film Critics' Awards 2023! It won Best Film, Best Director, Best Actress.
Photo: facebook Jan Vejnar

Graduate of Pisek's film schools, Václav Kubant, has been nominated for an VES award for visual effects on the series "The Last of US"! The results will be announced in February in Los Angeles. Fingers crossed!