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Producer - Country
Czech Republic
Hrubý Tomáš
59/184/84
"59/184/84" is a film dating ad of a permanently unhappy man waiting for life to start. Living an empty life of a loner, he nurtures the idea that something must happen; that destiny must grant him an ideal wife fulfilling all his requirements on the basis of the biological right for love. His ever-present thoughts of suicide are temporarily driven away by replies to his new text on the dating website: "Hello, I am a single slim man with a university degree and 184 cm of height between 50 and biological death and I want to get married and have children of my own. Looking forward to your reply. Best regards, Jiří."
Joy
A film on faith, knowledge, passion, love and joy in one day of the life of a hunter. – Department of documentary film, FAMU – 3rd year (film poem).
"59/184/84" is a film dating ad of a permanently unhappy man waiting for life to start. Living an empty life of a loner, he nurtures the idea that something must happen; that destiny must grant him an ideal wife fulfilling all his requirements on the basis of the biological right for love. His ever-present thoughts of suicide are temporarily driven away by replies to his new text on the dating website: "Hello, I am a single slim man with a university degree and 184 cm of height between 50 and biological death and I want to get married and have children of my own. Looking forward to your reply. Best regards, Jiří."
Joy
A film on faith, knowledge, passion, love and joy in one day of the life of a hunter. – Department of documentary film, FAMU – 3rd year (film poem).
Gottland
Based on stories selected from the bestseller Gottland by Polish author Mariusz Szczygiel, a series of film essays will be made by six FAMU students, describing the Czech national history from the perspective of one who never won. Surrounded by superpowers in its geopolitical space, Czechoslovakia has always had to manoeuvre within the limits set by others (e.g. when fighting for the unwanted Emperor of Austria in World War I, suffering the trauma of the Munich Pact etc.). Unable to decide about their own fate, Czechs had to develop a strategy of constant compromise-seeking behaviour and peaceful solutions, assuming the position of the "absent one", since that was the most advantageous way of defence; minimizing the experience of loss, however, leaving behind a great moral mutilation. In comparison with other nations of the world, nothing much ever happened to Czechs and nothing much ever will.
Digital Prints of a Revolution
Real people and their stories hidden behind the shared cell phone amateur videos shot during the Arab Spring in 2011. A documentary road movie in between digital space and reality. In December 2010, after a desperate shopkeeper set fire to himself and burnt to death in Tunisia, public riots began. In the following weeks and months a massive wave of revolutions moved to other Arab countries, with its extraordinary power set in motion by apparent certainties of oligarchic North African and Middle Eastern regimes. The main media and revolutionary method of communication between young Arabs is the internet. Social networks and Youtube represent a kind of meta-space free of government control. Videos shot with cell phone cameras, thousands of hours of brutal evidence against the power of the state, Revolution documenting itself online. How many personal videoarchives were possibly shot only during the mythical gathering of one million Egyptians in Tahrir square in February? And who are the real people hidden behind these iconic images? Would there be any revolution without these strong shared video-images?
Fortress
Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic. Imagine a space where the time has frozen. The time's stopped and life's been stuck in a shape resembling the era of Soviet Union. Somehow, people got used to the reign of the secret police and the fear of being spied on. Soviet-style propaganda of the authoritative, power-based regime of the president Igor Smirnov turns most of the PMR residents into simple workmen, without any will to understand how unbearable their situation is. Smirnov has been leading this non-existing country for as long as twenty years. The film focuses on a couple of characters being stuck in this geo-political gap, in between the European Union and Russia, in between the present and the past, crime and decency, decadence and hope for change. Framed by the time of presidential election, the film analyzes the organization of “no-state” and the rules of a regular life within.
Big Night
A documentary survey of urban night life and insomnia. Following several characters who inhabit the dark world of 24-hour bars, slot machine dives, night clubs and casinos, this film offers a glimpse into the world of people who live in an eternal night. The film focuses on several people who gravitate towards this environment that is like a guiding light where one is never alone. They keep returning here driven by insomnia, escapism, odd friendships, night adventures, criminal underworld and drug addiction. By using meth and other stimulants, their insomnia and paranoia are only getting worse. A portrait of a subculture that pursues its own values and moral code.
Based on stories selected from the bestseller Gottland by Polish author Mariusz Szczygiel, a series of film essays will be made by six FAMU students, describing the Czech national history from the perspective of one who never won. Surrounded by superpowers in its geopolitical space, Czechoslovakia has always had to manoeuvre within the limits set by others (e.g. when fighting for the unwanted Emperor of Austria in World War I, suffering the trauma of the Munich Pact etc.). Unable to decide about their own fate, Czechs had to develop a strategy of constant compromise-seeking behaviour and peaceful solutions, assuming the position of the "absent one", since that was the most advantageous way of defence; minimizing the experience of loss, however, leaving behind a great moral mutilation. In comparison with other nations of the world, nothing much ever happened to Czechs and nothing much ever will.
Digital Prints of a Revolution
Real people and their stories hidden behind the shared cell phone amateur videos shot during the Arab Spring in 2011. A documentary road movie in between digital space and reality. In December 2010, after a desperate shopkeeper set fire to himself and burnt to death in Tunisia, public riots began. In the following weeks and months a massive wave of revolutions moved to other Arab countries, with its extraordinary power set in motion by apparent certainties of oligarchic North African and Middle Eastern regimes. The main media and revolutionary method of communication between young Arabs is the internet. Social networks and Youtube represent a kind of meta-space free of government control. Videos shot with cell phone cameras, thousands of hours of brutal evidence against the power of the state, Revolution documenting itself online. How many personal videoarchives were possibly shot only during the mythical gathering of one million Egyptians in Tahrir square in February? And who are the real people hidden behind these iconic images? Would there be any revolution without these strong shared video-images?
Fortress
Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic. Imagine a space where the time has frozen. The time's stopped and life's been stuck in a shape resembling the era of Soviet Union. Somehow, people got used to the reign of the secret police and the fear of being spied on. Soviet-style propaganda of the authoritative, power-based regime of the president Igor Smirnov turns most of the PMR residents into simple workmen, without any will to understand how unbearable their situation is. Smirnov has been leading this non-existing country for as long as twenty years. The film focuses on a couple of characters being stuck in this geo-political gap, in between the European Union and Russia, in between the present and the past, crime and decency, decadence and hope for change. Framed by the time of presidential election, the film analyzes the organization of “no-state” and the rules of a regular life within.
Big Night
A documentary survey of urban night life and insomnia. Following several characters who inhabit the dark world of 24-hour bars, slot machine dives, night clubs and casinos, this film offers a glimpse into the world of people who live in an eternal night. The film focuses on several people who gravitate towards this environment that is like a guiding light where one is never alone. They keep returning here driven by insomnia, escapism, odd friendships, night adventures, criminal underworld and drug addiction. By using meth and other stimulants, their insomnia and paranoia are only getting worse. A portrait of a subculture that pursues its own values and moral code.
Tomáš Hrubý was born in 1986 in South Africa. After he finished his production studies at FAMU, he co-founded a production company nutprodukce and set for a carreer of an independent producer. He focuses especially on development and production of documentary and multi-genric projects. Nowadays he produces three feature documentaries and an HBO historic mini-series directed by Agniezska Holland.
PROFESSIONALGeneral Director, FAMUfest 2008, school-wide student film festival(4 days, >100 films with concerts and special events), Prague, Czech Republic, 2008- Managed and allocated budget of 2,550,000CZK ($150,000)- Created concept and organised and oversaw festival production team of 35 people- Represented festival in public TV and radio appearancesProducer, Štěstí Dam (Ladies’ Luck), Disk Theatre, Prague, Czech Republic, 2008- Developed and staged original musical with budget of 350,000CZK ($20,000)- Sold musical book and rights to City Theatre Budapest, Hungary- TV publicity appearance on Good Morning with Nova (most popular Czech morningprogram), February, 2008Production Intern, Biograf Jan Svěrak Inc. on feature-film production“Kuki se vrací” (Kuki’s Return), dir. Jan Svěrak - Prague, Czech Republic, 2009Producer & Founder, Try.audiovisual Inc. commercial productions including clients:(major European supermarket chain)ČSOB (3rd largest bank in Czech Republic) - Prague, Czech Republic, 2006-presentCreator, Loose Again - online humour series discussing current events in sports,Number of viewers - 45,000 - Prague, Czech Republic 2008Organiser, Build It Yourself - peaceful demonstration for new national library building -Prague, Czech Republic, 2009
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