Alice is looking for a job after graduating from high school. Her boyfriend Martin finds her a photo modelling gig, which turns out to be porn casting. After being manipulated into filming a hardcore scene, the world of the porn industry consumes her and Alice begins to discover the possibilities of how to turn it all to her advantage. We observe the situation from multiple perspectives, including the people behind this extremely profitable and sneaky scheme: Adam, a porn actor, and Nicol, who manipulates models into surpassing their original boundaries. This mosaic of individual perspectives on an incident reveals with a light tone the mechanisms of subtle manipulation and exploitation.
Jan Černý is currently pursuing a master's degree in screenwriting at FAMU. Prior to this, he studied film studies at Charles University and also completed a study abroad program at Université Sorbonne-Nouvelle. His work focuses on taboo topics with social significance.
Natália Pavlove graduated production at FAMU and founded her own production company, Other Stories, in 2021. She produced the award-winning short film Vinland, which premiered at the Karlovy Vary IFF. The short film Sea Salt, a Czech-Lebanese co-production, was selected for the Venice IFF, among others. Natália has been nominated for a Czech Lion and is currently collaborating with debuting female directors.
Terézia Halamová is a Slovak director and a graduate of FAMU. Her short film Sing was screened at numerous international film festivals and won the New Europe Talent Award and Best Cinematography Award at the Zubroffka festival, among others. Her music video Move Honey won the Jury Prize at the Papaya Young Directors competition. Her films often explore themes of loneliness, coming of age, and the examination of intimacy.
The world of the porn industry is not black and white, and although these are heavy topics, we want to tackle them with a light tone and bring to the series the complexity. These elements will attract a larger audience, as it will not be a depressing drama about exploitation, but will include elements of female empowerment, humor, and irony. Our target audience can be found among young adults as well as older viewers of quality TV and series.
At this stage, it is crucial to develop the concept into its final form and start working on the scripts for the series. This includes deepening the theme and characters, working on structure and developing the plot. At the moment, we are concentrating on the pilot. It's important for us to work with a script consultant or a group of writers. We also want to continue to seek funding for the project and find potential partners (streaming platforms or TV) and investors. At a more advanced stage, we will begin thorough preparation for filming, including choosing locations and casting actors. We want to license or co-produce the series to TV stations or streaming services, and it is also important for us to be shown at festivals.
Other Stories
Kurzova 2222/16, 155 00, Prague, Czech Republic
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Natália Pavlove | Producer
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Terézia Halamová | Director
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Jan Černý | Scriptwriter
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Mai (25) is a young Vietnamese woman living in Prague. Her parents came to Europe and have worked hard ever since. Thanks to them, Mai lives like her Czech friends and even finds love with a Czech boy, Šimon. Feeling detached from her roots and family, she is unexpectedly confronted with a proposal from her parents: to marry their friend’s son from Vietnam. The marriage comes with a tempting offer of 30,000 euros, a sum that could resolve their financial troubles. Mai finds herself in a dilemma – can she go on with her individualistic life when her family needs her help?
Diana Cam Van Nguyen is a Czech-Vietnamese director, artist and graduate of the animation department at FAMU. She specializes in animated documentaries (The Little One, Apart, Love, Dad) and in her films she deals with personal themes. Her short films have competed at festivals in Locarno, Rotterdam, Toronto and IDFA. Apart (2018) was awarded Best Czech Experimental Film at IDFF Jihlava 2018 and was among the three finalists of the BAFTA Student Awards 2019. Her latest short film Love, Dad (2021) won the Czech Lion and the Czech Film Critics Award 2022 for Best Short Film and the Magnesia Award for Best Student Film. The film has +65 awards from international festivals including BFI London Film Festival, Toronto, Clermont-Ferrand and Palm Spring. Love, Dad was among the five nominees for Best Short Film at the European Film Awards 2022. She has currently been selected for the Résidence Festival de Cannes, where she is developing her first feature film, Inbetween Worlds .
Inbetween Worlds combines the genre of a poetic romantic drama with coming-of-age elements, and as a result it focuses primarily on our protagonist’s younger generation (ages 18-30). The secondary target group is the festival or cinephile audience, who will appreciate the director’s innovative, formal approach. The third specific group are Vietnamese (and other) minorities in various countries (in Europe, the most numerous are in France, Germany and the Czech Republic).
Our goal is to develop a quality script and successfully produce a proof of concept video (8-10 minutes, three scenes from the script, including an animated sequence). This autumn, we want to start financing the production in the Czech Republic and then in Slovakia. In cooperation with a Vietnamese producer, we want to find a Vietnamese actor and set up a cooperation on the production of the film with Vietnam and the Southeast Asian region. We are looking for a third co-producer who will bring creative input and financing to strengthen the film's position for future distribution. We are also starting to look for partners for the film’s international distribution.
13ka s.r.o.
Myslivečkova 1798/5, 162 00, Prague, Czech Republic
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nutprodukcia
Palárikova 13, 811 04, Bratislava, Slovakia
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Diana Cam Van Nguyen | Director, Scriptwriter
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Milada Těšitelová | Scriptwriter
Karolína Davidová | Producer
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Jakub Viktorín | Producer
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Works aimed at children usually avoid difficult topics. In our miniseries, we want to introduce these topics in a non-violent manner and not make "boogeymen" out of them. Our adult generation still has the advantage of having grown up in an analogue world and having been raised on a completely different content principle, which is something we’d like to revive with this project.
We combine classic animation techniques in the style of Karel Zeman with live-action passages. Each episode is framed by a musical piece composed by a contemporary artist on a given theme. In the pilot episode, we deal with coping with the death of a loved one.
A funeral reception takes place partly inside a farmhouse in the farmyard. This isn’t much fun for little Jonas. He receives a cassette tape and a walkman from his grandmother. The music transports us to a straw world, where the fantastical story of how Jonas's grandfather met his grandmother begins.
Veronika Jelšíková is a director and producer from Prague. She graduated from FAMU’s Production Department in Prague and completed a residency in Los Angeles at the California Institute of the Arts, where she studied the film directing programme. Her directorial debut, the short film Golden Delicious, won the Nespresso Talents Award at KVIFF and other gold awards at vertical film festivals. She garnered further success with the commercial Advertising Needs More Women, for which she won a Golden Nutcracker in the Young Directors category. Since then, she’s made several commercials and music videos and is currently finishing her debut film The Wayfarer. Petr Vlček is currently studying directing at Prague’s FAMU. Apart from making short films, he mainly works on music videos. His last year's music video for the band Iggy Mayerov, which explored the techniques of Karel Zeman, will be screened at the prestigious Berlin Music Video Awards. In 2020, he was nominated for the Anděl Awards’ Music Video of the Year. Playfulness, genre exploration and a strong sense for the visual permeate his work.
The primary target group is children, but we naturally have to and want to reach their parents as well, because we’ll always need their consent :). We believe we could create a project that could bring the family closer together; one where both age groups could find common ground in terms of their tastes. We often currently perceive the present child-oriented cultural scene as being very different from the perception of adults. We often find that contemporary/international content merely targets children's screen addiction while relying less on story content. Our adult generation still has the advantage of having grown up in an analogue world and having been raised on a completely different content principle, which is something we’d like to revive with this project.
We’re currently looking for a producer to back the project so that we can make a pilot (or even develop a whole miniseries), engage more musicians and continue developing stories along with the musical component. Because the stories are dependent on these engaged musicians, who will be co-authors of the stories, we need to recruit several music-industry names for the project.
Veronika Jelšíková | Director, Scriptwriter
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Petr Vlček | Director, Scriptwriter
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Masha (26) receives a proposal to marry but is afraid of the new stage in her life. Under the excuse of caring for her grandmother Eva (83), who has Alzheimer's disease, she flees to her hometown in Ukraine. Her boyfriend Mitja (28) follows her. When the town is occupied, they are trapped in Eva's house. Eva's memories of her beloved Kolya come flooding back. Their old love letters are read aloud by Masha and Mitja, the boundary between past and present disappears, and Eva begins to see Mitja as Kolya. Mitja devises a way to escape the area, but Eva insists on marrying Kolya. Masha grants Eva's wish, Mitja pretends to be Kolya, and the symbolic wedding allows both Masha and Eva to heal their wounds.
Peace and Tranquility, 12 min | Ukraine, 2022 – Sheffield DocFest 2022, Zinebi ZIFF 2022, Go Short 2023. Dad, 14 min | Czech Republic, 2021 – Manaki brothers FF, Student Competition at Jihlava IDFF 2022. Plus One, 23 min | Czech Republic, 2019 – Audience Award in the National Competition at Lviv's WIZ-ART 2020, Prague Shorts, 2019, part of the European Short Film Audience Award in 2020, screened at various festivals such as: Brussels FF, Curtas Vila do Conde lFF, ENCOUNTERS FF, ALCINE, INTERFILM BERLIN, Clermont-Ferrand, Tampere IFF and Go Short. Dina, 8 min | Czech Republic, 2016 – Dovzhenko Centre’s Award at the Golden SUK Festival in Kyiv, 2017, Dovzhenko Centre Almanac’s Ukrainian New Wave 2018 .
We would like the theme of intergenerational clashes to be reflected in the mix of the film's target audience, so we will target teenagers or young adults as well as older viewers and seniors. Our film should have a unifying effect on the barricade between the younger and older generations, i.e. teenagers/young adults and older viewers/seniors.
The project is in the development phase, and we are working on the script, casting the main roles, preparing location scouting and shooting a proof of concept. In addition to the support of the Czech Film Fund in the development phase, we also have partners for the sample. Currently we also have an LOI from Polish producer Magdalena Sztorz (Mozaika films).
Films & Chips
Rybná 716/24, Prague, Czech Republic
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Myro Klochko | Director, Scriptwriter
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Marek Čermák | Producer
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Karolína Fránková | Producer
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Rusalka is set in a fantastical world that resembles today's modern world, with the difference being that it is still inhabited by supernatural beings. Specifically, the last two of these creatures still living hidden among people are the nymph Anna and the water goblin Viktor. However, Anna is beginning to feel stifled by her centuries-long life with Viktor. Even though humans are her prey, she is fascinated by their feelings and passions. Can Anna find the love she wishes of, or is it just an unattainable dream? Let Anna dance you into a world of hidden souls in cups, fishes in bathtubs and a mysterious nightclub hidden in the basement of a Prague apartment building.
Hana Neničková graduated from the Department of Screenwriting and Dramaturgy at Prague's FAMU. During her studies, she directed two short films. Her first film Unrelated Son, which was co-produced with Czech Television, explores family secrets and power dynamics in the relationship between a teenage boy and an older man. Her second film The Other Side of the Farmland, which showcased at several international festivals, is a folkloric ballad about life after death set in a Moravian pub. As part of her studies, she has created three screenplays for feature-length films. Currently, she focuses on television production and is developing several series and mini-series. In her work, she enjoys combining the issues faced by contemporary young people with supernatural elements.
The film appeals to an audience that enjoys mystical and supernatural elements but also craves deep human stories. While drawing inspiration from older Czech fairy tales, its themes and visual approach aim to engage a younger audience.
Currently, I would like to create another version of the script, participate in screenwriting workshops with it, and move it to the next phase. At the same time, I also want to find producer support and start slowly financing the project.
Hana Neničková | Scriptwrer
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David moves from a small Slovak town to Prague to enrol in a new high school, but mostly to escape the expectations of his conservative parents. Viktor comes from a liberal Czech family and spends most of his time playing sports. His long term relationship with his girlfriend Gabi has been falling apart lately. Meeting David acts as a catalyst for the change that Viktor has been pushing away. On a school trip, their first romantic encounter takes place. They start dating, and their newly formed queer relationship surprises those around them. Young love will have to face many challenges: religious beliefs, family expectations and the heteronormative views of society.
Igor Smitka is a Slovak director living in Prague. During his studies in photography at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava, he also started expanding into film and audiovisual media. After several years of extensive cinematography work, Igor gradually transitioned into directing his own short films, all of which carried activist undertones. He likes to use film as a tool of empowerment, conveying stories of minorities and queer subcultures. His filmography includes the short films As Above So Below (2022) and House of Velvet (2023), which won Best Cinematography Award from the Slovak Association of Cinematographers.
Primary audience: Teenagers (ages 15-19), queer youth. Secondary audience: Parents of teenagers and individuals aged 20-40 interested in quality TV content
Main creative crew members have been engaged. Partial research on casting and the visual style of the series has been carried out. The series is conceived as a Czech-Slovak-Polish co-production. In Slovakia, we are collaborating with co-producer Matěj Sotník (from Guča Films), and on the Polish side, we are seeking a suitable co-producer experienced in TV content. The project has been submitted for funding from the Creative Europe Media European Co-Development Call and the Visegrad Fund, with expected results in August 2024. The script for the pilot episode and a pitch deck/project presentation is ready.
CLAW films
Haškova 9, 170 00, Prague, Czech Republic
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Igor Smitka | Director
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Klára Mamojková | Producer
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Wanda Kaprálová | Producer
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