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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 series The Websters and a Christmas Special Mimi & Lisa as a co-writer. She also edits script for two animated feature films in production.

Furthermore, she lectures pitching at Czech film school FAMU and works as a tutor and moderator at various festivals, conferences and workshops.

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. At the moment she is part of the Czech Television Director’s Advisory Board and of FAMU Creative Board.

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.

Karolína DAVIDOVÁ

Karolína is a newbie producer - fresh graduate from Arts management and Film and TV production.

Creative

Karolina fell in love with animation and started by lecturing children and youth. During her studies at the Film Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts, she focused on short animated films exploring the creative role of a producer.

Producer

Along with studies at FAMU, Karolina graduated from Arts management at University of Economics in Prague.

She has produced several animated shorts including anidocs The Little One and Apart by Diana Cam Van Nguyen, Hide´n´Seek by Bára Halířová and Days Off by Filip Blažek which have been presented at dozens of festivals. She also gained experience in live-action film as an assistant producer of Čestmír Kopecký.

Recently, Karolina works as an executive producer of the Websters feature and a producer of up-coming film by Diana Cam Van Nguyen Love, Dad.

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

Radio and TV Slovakia, Studio Miniatur Filmowych (Poland) , 13ka

FORMAT

13 x 12 min 
a feature and next 13 episodes in development

TARGET AUDIENCE 

5-8 years 

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!

Official web

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.

Official web

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.

For news follow film´s facebook.

Love, Dad

DIRECTOR

Diana Cam Van Nguyen

PRODUCER

Karolina Davidova

13ka + FAMU

PLANNED PREMIERE

autumn 2020

LENGTH

15 min.

A short film about ties and gaps between a child and a parent. Through the film, young author Diana rediscovers how the connection between herself and her dad fell silent.

Dad ́s letters of love he used to write to her from prison are answered by Diana 15 years later. She still blames him for family ́s break-up but now also tries to understand.

Mixed techniques.

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.

Of Unwanted Things and People

PRODUCTION

MAUR film, Artichoke SK, ZVVIKS, WJTeam / Likaon

Anna is working as a script editor on screenplays and development of a puppet feature film based on children stories by well-known Czech author, director and actor Arnošt Goldflam. The premiere is planned for 2021. It is a Czech-Slovak-Polish-Slovenian coproduction With unifying art design created by Patricia Ortiz Martínez. Each of the four stories is written and directed by an artist from one of the coproducing country.

Living Large

PRODUCTION

Vernes, Novinski SK

We work with Kristina Dufková, Bára Dřevíkovská, Veronika Sabová (Vernes) 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 this spring

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.