Jana Ševčíková
Personal Info
Know For
Directing
Gender
Female
Birthday
1953-04-22 (72 years old)
Place of Birth
Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]
Also known As
贾那·塞奇科瓦
Jana Ševčíková
Biography
With films that reflect on life in contemporary Eastern Europe, Czech filmmaker Jana Ševcíková has distinguished herself as a practitioner of poetic documentary. A graduate of the Prague Film Academy, her thesis film, Piemule (1984), offers a frank examination of Czech émigrés in Romania during the final years of Ceausecu‘s totaltitarian regime. She has produced films independently, such as Jakub (1992), and received state funding from the Czech Ministry of Culture. Her films have been shown at festivals in Berlin, Strasbourg, Karlovy Vary and Cracow. Praised throughout Europe, Ševčíková‘s intimately crafted works challenge the distanced conv...
Acting
2005
Production
2014
as Writer
2014
as Director
2022
as Director
2022
as Writer
2002
as Screenplay
2008
as Director
2008
as Producer
1984
as Writer
2002
as Director
2002
as Director
2002
as Writer
1992
as Director
1984
as Director
2008
as Writer
1992
as Producer
2009
as Thanks
1981
as Director
1984
as Presenter
1984
as Producer
2002
as Presenter
1992
as Screenplay
2014
as Producer
2002
as Producer
1986
as Screenplay
1986
as Director
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