26.4.2011 GRAFFITIGER has been nominated for student Oscars 2011!

This witty and slightly melancholic short animated movie tells a story of a lonesome, painted graffiti-tiger that lives on walls and facades of Prague’s houses.  The city full of filthy streets and corners covered with graffiti is a savage jungle where the tiger seeks his way back to the love he lost. Both thrilling and funny the story is processed with attractive combined technology – 2D hand-lettered animation and camera shots with real actors.

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   Our upcoming movie is based on selected parts of the international bestseller Gottland (European book of the year 2009) by Mariusz Szczygiel. 7 documentarists - students of Prague famous film school FAMU – observe the Czech history from the losers’ point of view and examine the neuralgic points of Czech and European history and so called “heroes” of the Czech nation.
   The name Gottland refers to a famous Czech singer Karel Gott, one of the most popular pop-music singers in the central Europe. Karel Gott himself became a symbol for the succesful, and hardworking citizen of the Czech lands, who has stayed perfectly neutral for last 60 years. He is the only real hero for the Czech nation, sometimes even reaching up to the god status. 

It’s always hard to become a good actor – you have to grow together with your character, recite your lines perfectly and leave your stage fright behind. But can you imagine that a lover, bad guy, hero or an anti-hero will be played by a badger?
Mr. Badger has to put up with theatre performance for audience that does not quite share his interest in art: Hare, Mole, Hedgehog and Deer. Sometimes he performs for occasional visitors of the forest but they are more interested in mushroom of the forest picking and they do not appreciate his talent. Mr. Badger his his hole full of books, there are posters of famous actors on the walls and he loves to listen to the songs written by famous Czech theatre duo in 30ties but he still tries hard to be as enthusiastic as his friends when it
comes to making food supplies for the winter, talking about making food supplies for the winter and making home beverage. Even though all his friends respect him and in a way like him, they can not understand him. Mr. Badger dreams about a real theatre, about a big stage and about a city...but his forest is one of the most sophisticated prisons comparable to Alcatraz, all around the forest there is a highway with cars driving incredibly fast. Every attempt to escape was unsuccessful but there are rumors about one Badger, our hero’s grandfather, who made it and came there and back again to the city. Every Badger has a right to have a dream even if it would be as weird as to become an actor.
Mr. Badger is a live action puppet animation, where puppet are not animated but led in realtime. The film will be not shot in „frame-by-frame“ mode, but in realtime using the technology of animatronics. This system enables us to achieve detailed movements of face parts while we do not lose the dynamics and spontaneousness of puppeteer.

The realization was supported by Czech State Fund for Support and Development of Czech Cinematography.

In the far, far North, where the day begins and the oceans meet, a small hamlet New Chaplino is situated. The government decided to turn the village into a tourist resort. It is winter, 30 degrees Celsius below zero. The tourists are not coming. There are only few memories of them and the snow has already covered their footprints.
A documentary about the tourism influence on original ethnic groups that haven’t been affected by civilization so far and about the changes of how they experience their own culture. The documentary takes place on the Russian far north – in the Chukotka region.

A short animated movie inspired by the life and legends of the Greenland Eskimos. Brumlik and Animuk tells a story of a small girl Animuk and her animal friends who experience different adventures and provide us an insight into the world of people inhabiting the polar region. This fairy tale story is full of situational humor and is designed especially for children but entertains also the adults.
The film is a part of bigger project including a multi-issue comic book and the follow-up television serie.

The realization was supported by Czech State Fund for Support and Development of Czech
Cinematography.

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This feature film is a metaphoric image of various types of xenophobia in our society. The film contains two parallel stories. In the documentary one we can find many examples of racial and national intolerance from our history. The fiction part than mix together a sort of sci-fi and romantic love story of two people from different worlds. Will they be able to overcome boundaries set between them by the society?

The development was supported by Czech State Fund for Support and Development of Czech Cinematography, Estonian Film Foundation and Slovak Audiovisual Fund.

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A feature documentary essay about a passion of hunting. In the stylized, dramatic pictures we can watch the contemporary form of this widespread hobby. A vicar with a bear trophy from Canada, hunters from the Safari Club trying to get the trophys of 5 big african animals or The Czech Hunting Union -  all of them present us their motivations and desires and they show us their world, despised by some while loved by many others.