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Women in animation and music: Cute and Expressive Animated Shorts with Live Music

An explosion of frustration, an exploration of one’s own body, a depiction of house chore struggles, various stages of love following the life cycle of a planet, and the disruption of fragile ecosystems. Knitted, felt, acrylic, cute, painterly and expressive shorts present a vibrant foray into the world of contemporary animated film. The up-and-coming generation of women filmmakers from Finland, France, Colombia, Hungary, and the UK employ diverse techniques and approaches to compellingly capture major, ordinary, as well as incredibly funny situations.

This program of animated shorts by women filmmakers will be introduced by Julie Marková Žáčková and Dagmar Sedláčková of Girls in Film Prague, and animator Michaela Režová, founder of the platform f-a-t (film-animation-theory).

The films will be accompanied by live music performed by Nina Rosa and Never Sol!

Tickets can be bought HERE.

 

Films:

 

Love

 

La Perra

 

Enough

 

Penelope

 

On The 8th Day

 

Music:

 

Nina Rosa

 

Never Sol

Julie Marková Žáčková

Julie Marková Žáčková is a graduate of the Department of Production at FAMU and the Department of Critical and Cultural Theory at the Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures at Charles University. During her studies at FAMU she produced, among others, the short film Pravomil (2014, dir. Pavel Nosek), which won the Magnesia Award for Best Student Film at the Czech Lions. Since 2012, she has been working with Unit and Sofa, where as a producer she produced the feature film Occupation (dir. Michal Nohejl), which won the awards for Best Film, Screenplay, Direction and Discovery of the Year at the Czech Film Critics Awards and was nominated for the Czech Lion Awards in 13 categories, where it won the awards for Best Screenplay, Music and Supporting Actress. In 2017, she founded the Prague branch of the London-based Girls in Film platform, which showcases the work of promising young female filmmakers. Since 2019, she represents Czech and Slovak cinematographers under her talent agency NOCHI. She is a member of the European Film Academy.

Dagmar Sedláčková

Dagmar Sedláčková is a graduate of the Department of Film Studies at the Charles University and the Department of Production at FAMU. In 2014 she joined the independent production company MasterFilm as a producer and partner. She primarily focuses on projects with international reach and festival potential, but also works on projects for local streaming platforms. Films she has produced or co-produced have been screened in competition at prestigious European festivals such as Cannes, Locarno, Berlinale, Annecy, and have been nominated for an EFA award. She is a graduate of Eurodoc, the EAVE Producer's Workshop and a member of the EFA. For the Audionaut platform, she developed and produced a documentary podcast about true crimes, Girl-Missing, which premiered in spring 2020. She is a co-founder of the Girls in Film Prague platform.

Michaela Režová

Michaela Režová is a filmmaker and director. Her work focuses on the genre of animated documentary and its forms. She studied animation under Jiří Barta in Pilsen, animation at the UMPRUM and in 2013 she was on an internship at the French school La Poudrière. Her diploma film Štvanice (2017) deals with the case of the Czechoslovak hockey players Modrý and Co., won the main prize at the Marienbad Film Festival, was selected for the Best Czech Shorts 2018 and screened at a number of festivals. In recent years, she has worked as a creative director on 360° film projection projects for the History of the 20th Century exhibition at the National Museum and films for the Design and Transformation: Stories of Czech Design 1900-2020 exhibition. She is behind the research and preparation of an exhibition and publication on the 70th anniversary of the founding of the animation studio at UMPRUM. She is the founder of the f-a-t.cz platform, which brings content from the world of animated film under the motto "From animators to animators". He is currently completing his doctoral studies at UMPRUM, lecturing on the theory and history of animation, and since this October he has been co-directing the Animation and Film Studio.

Nina Rosa

Nina Rosa is a project of Slovak singer and violinist Nina Marinová living and working in Prague. The name comes from the name of Nina's biggest fan - her grandmother. Her lifelong support inspired Nina to use her virtuosity (as her grandmother would say) to create a project that defines her own view of music. You may also know Nina from her collaborations with Zrní or Bára Zmeková. She has also worked in the ensemble Transitus Irregularis and in the band Dub Artillery. Nina Rosa's debut album, Discover, earned her three nominations for the Slovak Radio_Head Awards.

Never Sol

Never Sol is a pseudonym of Sára Vondrášková - musician, composer and producer living in Prague. In her musical practice she currently focuses on combining vocals with synthesizers. She seeks the deconstruction of forms, guided and inspired by harsh noisy sharp sounds with dark harsh drone elements, explores the relationship between fragility and massiveness of sound and considers time and working with it as a crucial element that guides her composing.