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Director - Country
Czech Republic
Reinisch Jan
NING - Story of the Lost Girlfriend
Czech traveller Pavel Zvolánek made an emotional documentary about the search for his Thai girlfriend just after the tsunami in 2004.
Czech traveller Pavel Zvolánek made an emotional documentary about the search for his Thai girlfriend just after the tsunami in 2004.
born 1964
In 1988, I graduated at the film and television department of the School of Journalism at the Charles University in Praha with a diploma thesis on “The Relationship of Film Sound and Picture”.
1987 Film “Poets’ Pageant”, won 2nd prize at the festival of non-commercial films “Brno 16”
1988-1990 Worked as the film and cultural editor of the Mladá Fronta daily
1990-1995 Worked as the film and music editor of the Reflex magazine
1995-1997 Produced and directed news features for the private TV station Nova
Documents and film reports:
As a director and a cameraman, I shot from 1998 to 1999 in Kosovo, Palestine, and Chechnia (won 1st and 2nd prizes in UNESCO competition), I made a document on a festival of Jewish culture, a document on the underground music festival “The Steel Tulip” and a document on a music festival in Chicago.
In 1998 and 1999, I contributed to the alternative music TV program “Šedesátka”. I authored music videos, among others “Barma” for the band “Pod Černý Vrch” which won the non-commercial “Šedesátka” count down in 1998, “Klíče od hospod” for the band “České Srdce” which won the commercial hit chart “Eso” in 2000.
From 1998 to 2000, I traveled in France, Germany, Italy, Turkey, Greece, Britain, Ireland and the Balkan countries and collected material on European magic cults, contributions to the TV program “Objektiv”. In 1998, I made a full-length portrait of the Bulgarian financier Martin Zajmov and the film was awarded as the best documentary on Bulgarian TV.