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Animation production company

With solid roots in creative development

Seeking original projects based on a strong story

Keen on co-operation across nations, cultures, disciplines

Animation production company

With solid roots in creative development

Seeking original projects based on a strong story

Keen on co-operation across nations, cultures, disciplines

We can offer support and assistance in the following areas

Creative

Creative project development
Work with story, scripts, characters
Tutoring

Production

Project partnership
Coproducing

Industry

Cooperation on events in Czech Republic / CEE / Europe

Anna VÁŠOVÁ

Anna is a writer, a script editor and a lecturer as well as an expert on international cooperation.

Creative

She studied dramaturgy and scriptwriting at the Theatre Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts. Shortly after graduation, she lectured dramaturgy and stage directing at the Academy and wrote scripts – first for radio and TV.

In the early nineties Anna worked as a film and TV script executive and commissioning editor in the Czech Television. During that time, she worked on several landmark projects including Oscar winning feature film Kolja and other international co-productions.

Nowadays she specialises in animation and works on children films and series The Websters and Mimi & Lisa as a co-writer. She also edits script for two animated feature films in production and leads script development of another one.

Management and consulting

In the end of nineties Anna headed the production and distribution arm of Barrandov studios and then became Director of Programs at the Czech Television. She was part of the Czech Television Director’s Advisory Board (2013-19) and of FAMU Creative Board (2017-2020).

International work / co-productions

Anna moved in 1998 to Eurovision/EBU in Geneva. During her 15 years there, she led various program sectors and managed over 50 international co-productions of all genres across 86 national broadcasters from 56 different countries.

In 2014 Anna returned to Prague and continued her international work with Visegrad Animation Forum (now CEE Animation), connecting Central and Eastern Europe and helping to build a strong animation industry in the region.

She works as a tutor and moderator at industry events (Animateka, ASAF, Central European Project FAMU International) and is an expert for Creative Europe MEDIA.

Karolína DAVIDOVÁ

Karolína is a film producer experieced in short animated films.

Creative

Karolína graduated from arts management (University of Economics in Prague) and film production (FAMU) and attended University of Greenwich in London.

Producer

At FAMU, Karolína produced several short films such as The Little One (2017) and Apart (2018) by Diana Cam Van Nguyen, Days Off by Filip Blažek (2018) or Hide ́n ́Seek by Bara Halirova (2019).

Recently, Karolína works as an executive producer of the Websters feature and a producer of up-coming films by Love, Dad (Diana Ngyuen) and Hun Tun (Magdalena Hejzlarová).

Industry & Events

Karolina produced an interactive exhibition CITY CITY in Prague. She worked for festivals Animanie, Anifilm and CEE Animation Forum.

The Websters

PRODUCER

Fool Moon

CO-PRODUCERS

13ka, PFX, Radio and Television Slovakia, Czech Television

FORMAT

feature film
19x12´min

TARGET AUDIENCE 

4-7 years 

DATE OF COMPLETION

spring 2022

The Websters are a spider family that lives in the corner of a lift machine room. The Websters’ world is wide, created to the smallest detail. Friends, school, the distribution centre for canned flies, the shopping mall, their eating habits and history events. The Webster‘s family is big – grandma and grandpa, mum and dad, two children – Hugo and Lili. The stories are built around the main character – Lili, but all members of this family have their own problems to solve. Just like in any human family – the life in this spider family is also full of mistakes and wrong expectations. We would like to tell everyday life stories to help children find understanding, forgiveness and offer them right models for expressing their feelings and emotions. Because THE STRONGEST NET IS YOUR FAMILY!

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Mimi & Lisa – Christmas Lights Mystery

PRODUCER

Fool Moon 

CO-PRODUCERS 

Radio and TV Slovakia, Maur Film

FORMAT

26 min 

TARGET AUDIENCE 

5-8 years 

Blind, shy Mimi and restless, crazy Lisa discover the amazing worlds of neighbours in their house. The extraordinary friendship of these two girls brings a lot of adventures, but also opens hearts of people living in the house. The grey building becomes more cheerful and open. And now everyone will celebrate Christmas together. Everyone will decorate the big Christmas tree in the hall of the house. The same as in their childhood stood on the town square. Because Christmas time is the best time to create new memories for the future. And probably correct the wrong ones, deeply hidden in our minds from the past.
Anna co-wrote the story together with great Kata Kerekesova and her team.

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Love, Dad

a short film - a letter

DIRECTOR

Diana Cam Van Nguyen

PRODUCER

Karolina Davidova 13ka

COPRODUCERS

Ondřej Šejnoha FAMU, Jakub Viktorin nutprodukcia

SCRIPT & EDITOR

Lukas Janicik

PREMIERE

autumn 2021

LENGTH

12 min.

DISTRIBUTION & SALES

MIYU Distribution

She finds letters full of love her dad wrote her 15 years ago...

A short film about ties and gaps between a child and a parent.
The author rediscovers loving letters her dad used to write her from prison. That love seems to be gone now. She decides to write back in hopes of finding this connection again. She puts in writing what cannot be said: blaming him for her family´s break-up, but also trying to understand.

sound & music: Viera Marinova

DOP: Krystof Melka & Matej Pinos

editing: Lukas Janicik

starring: Linh Duong, Mája Hong Nhung, Hoai Trung Le

Supported by Czech Film Fund, Audiovisual Fund and FILMTALENT ZLIN

Hun Tun

a short about insomnia and way out of inner chaos

AUTHOR

Magdalena Hejzlarová

PRODUCER

Karolína Davidová (13ka)

SCRIPT & EDITOR

Alexander Kashcheev

PREMIERE

autumn 2022

	Every 3rd person in Europe deals with sleep disorder. What happens if one goes through such experience? How one can help it? The author of Hun Tun tells her own story of fearing sleep and way out of it. Through this experimental anidoc Magdalena ventures into inner panic and body sensations she knows so well from times she can´t sleep. But at the same time the light is somewhere in there... DOP: Zdena Sýkorová production manager: Hynek Spurný Supported by Czech Film Fund.

Every 3rd person in Europe deals with sleep disorder. What happens if one goes through such experience? How one can help it? The author of Hun Tun tells her own story of fearing sleep and way out of it. Through this experimental anidoc Magdalena ventures into inner panic and body sensations she knows so well from times she can´t sleep. But at the same time the light is somewhere in there...

DOP: Zdena Sýkorová

production manager: Hynek Spurný

Supported by Czech Film Fund.

Night Walkers

Podcast for those who don´t sleep in nights

FORMAT

10 x 60´

STAGE

development

AUTHORS

Magdalena Hejzlarova, Karolina Davidova, Heidi Hornackova

Can´t sleep or just don´t sleep?
Radio art programme combining interviews with interesting ordinary people about their nights and days and artistic sound design made to measure of nightime.

You don´t have to get asleep just relax and enjoy listening...

Consulted with sleep therapist.

Apart

PRODUCER

FAMU, FILMTALENT ZLÍN, ALKAY

DIRECTOR

Diana Cam Van Nguyen

EXECUTIVE PRODUCER

Karolína Davidová

LENGTH

10 min.

ONLINE

https://vimeo.com/channels/staffpicks/403252865

Animated documentary about life after the loss of a loved one deals with a difficult topic, using techniques of both live-action and animated film. Real experiences of the narrators are combined with animated sequences reconstructing painful situations, looking into the thoughts of three young people untimely exposed to death.

The film competed as a finalist for BAFTA Student Award. It was awarded at IDFF Ji.hlava 2018 and Anifilm 2019. Internationally it was presented at IFF Rotterdam 2019 or Annecy 2019.

Watch the film here.

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The Little One

PRODUCER

FAMU, FILMTALENT ZLÍN, Anifilm

DIRECTOR

Diana Cam Van Nguyen

EXECUTIVE PRODUCER

Karolína Davidová

LENGTH

10 min.

ONLINE

https://vimeo.com/387056267

A Vietnamese girl grows up in a European town. As she gets used to what it means to be strange and at home at the same time, her family inevitably heads towards a fatal decision. Who will leave – who will stay? Whose home is where?

An autobiographical anidoc being awarded at a number of festivals and competing for ECFA Doc Award at Berlinale 2019.

Watch the film here.

Living Large

PRODUCTION

Barletta, Novinski SK

We work with Kristina Dufková, Bára Dřevíkovská, Matěj Chlupáček (Barletta) and Petr Jarchovský on development of a puppet feature film for children and teens about love, food and growing up. The film is based on a French novel by Mikaël Olivier. Living Large is a Czech-Slovak coproduction. Shooting starts spring 2021.

Apart at Vimeo Staff Pick!

https://vimeo.com/channels/staffpicks/403252865

Watch a short anidoc Apart by Diana Cam Van Nguyen.

The film got among 3 animated student shorts to be awarded by BAFTA out of 550 submissions from 38 countries.