Every year, several dozen film festivals and summer schools with different themes and scope take place in the Czech Republic. They are usually competitions and shows lasting several days, and include lectures and screenings of the latest films, often with expert juries giving awards.
A film that, unlike fictional film, primarily aims to capture, evaluate and convey reality. It is characterised by authenticity, which is why it is often erroneously identified with journalism and news.
Prominent Czech-American photographer, editor, cameraman and director. One of the pioneers of avant-garde film of 1930s and a key figure in world film modernism.
Czech explorer, writer, journalist and documentary filmmaker. Together with Jiří Hanzelka, he went on several expeditions on practically all continents.
Avant-garde film screenwriter, director and pedagogue of the Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. She belongs to the so-called New Wave in Czechoslovak film. Because of her experimental and innovative film expression she is often called the “first lady of Czech film”.
Adventurer, explorer, composer, conductor, photographer, cameraman, filmmaker and documentarist. He is mentioned in Peruvian textbooks, but is almost forgotten in the Czech Republic.
Prominent Czechoslovak film director and screenwriter, one of the foremost figures of Czechoslovak New Wave.
Czech actor and Czech-American film director and producer, oceanologist, ecologist and writer.
Czech director, screenwriter, documentarist, actor, film producer, film score composer, pedagogue. One of the most prominent and most provocative artist of the Czechoslovak New Wave.
Traveller and film maker. One of only two Czechoslovak women to travel around the world before the Second World War.
Czech explorer, adventurer, ethnographer, writer and documentarist, the honorary chief of the Kickapoo tribe.
Cinematographer, director and pedagogue, one of the most distinguished Czech documentary film makers. He had a major impact on Czech auteur documentary film and is regarded as a classic in the genre.
Director, screenwriter, pedagogue and film producer. She belongs to the world elite of documentary film making. Her work mostly deals with interpersonal relationships, social problems and the position of women in society.
Czech forester, zoologist, explorer, hunter, photographer, ethnologist and writer, founder and first director of the Safari Park in Dvůr Králové nad Labem.
Czech explorer, writer, journalist, photographer and documentary filmmaker. Together with Jiří Hanzelka, he went on several expeditions on practically all continents.
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