After graduating from the University of Economics Prague, Viera worked at various positions in accounting and financial management, mostly with international companies both at home and abroad (Czech Airlines, Accenture Services). Has ample experience in the film industry; as a head accountant, sales and leaseback assistant, she was involved in the following feature projects: The Illusionist; Doom; The Fine Art of Love: Mine Ha-Ha; The Brothers Grimm; Funky Monkey; The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin; World War II. She joined IDF in October 2010 after four years at OECD in Paris where she was responsible for financial reporting on voluntary contributions. As part of her job with OECD, Viera completed a three-month internship as a Grants Manager at the International Energy Agency (IEA).

Education: Film Studies on the Philosophical Faculty of the Charles University and department of Audio-visual Art - Documentary film. Residency: Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris III - Cinéma Audiovisuel; Gradisca Film School, Italy; French Government Scholarship, Paris, Bordeaux. Hana Rezková has been working in the Institute of Documentary Film since 2003. Previous work experiences: the NGO PSIC (2002 – 2004), co-operation with the Center for Contemporary Art Jeleni on film projects (Prague 2002-2003), Progressiv International Kunst Organisation (Berlin 2000 – 2002) + diverse film and physical theatre performances programming. Speaks English, French and Russian.

Born in Slovakia. Graduated from the Faculty of Education, University of Constantine the Philosopher, Nitra. Then she continued studying Film Theory and Multimedia on the Film and Television Faculty. She studied at University of Applied Sciences in Jyväskylä, Finland as part of the film studying programme. In 2006 she curated a showcase of Finnish feature and documentary films for the ArtFilm Festival in Trencianske Teplice, Slovakia. She worked at an advertising agency prior to coming to IDF in 2008 -where she was responsible for the two years project named “Breathless-Dominance of the Moment” developing five Czech-German documentaries. She is involved in other activities of the Institute and currently also works for Czech film magazine Cinepur.

Viktória Hozzová was born on 29th of June 1981 in Košice, Slovakia. Graduated from Film School Zlín in Production Management. She participated in several student films as a production manager and co-organized the Zlin Dog Student Film Festival. During her studies she also contributed to some feature films and began her cooperation with Czech Television where she worked on many documentary projects. She joined the IDF team in January 2009 and organizes its acitivities as a production manager. Speaks English and understands Hungarian.

Recently on maternity leave. Born in 1976 in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. She graduated in humanities (macroeconomics and political science) at Charles University and in documentary film direction at FAMU in Prague. Her creative professional experience includes direction of documentary films mainly on social and political topics, including the feature documentary “Never Been Better” which covers the situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina after the war, and the hour-length doc “Damas de Blanco” on a women’s dissident movement in Cuba. She also co-directed an hour-length doc about new EU members, “E Day”. Ivana joined the Institute of Documentary Film in 2003. As Head of Programme, she is responsible for the Ex Oriente Film workshop and the East European Forum, and assists in creating the programme of the East Silver documentary film market and other partner projects, such as the Yangon Film School. For the last four years, Ivana has been a lecturer at the Prague Film Academy (FAMU). In 2009 she was elected a board member of the European Documentary Network (EDN).

Kristina Valentová was born in Prague. She studied at the Charles University in Prague, but completed her studies at the University of Oslo (M.Phil in Comparative and International Education). During the course of her studies, she cooperated with a number of non-profit organizations. She joined the Institute of Documentary Film in 2008 to work on the DOKweb.net´s resource databases and now assists on the diverse projects.

Recently on maternity leave. Jana is a freelance translator and proofreader. At IDF since 2005, responsible for keeping the web portal and databases up to date in both Czech and English, as well as for providing corrections to company documents, announcements and correspondence.

Born 1983, Havlíčkův Brod, Czech Republic. Graduated with a Bachelor's degree in Audio – Visual Culture Studies / General Theory and History of Arts and Culture at Masaryk University Brno. In IDF working since August 2010. Monika worked for several film festivals: Fresh Film Festival 2010, CZ (Shipping asistent), The International Festival of Animated Films – Anifest 2010, CZ (ProfiForum Co-ordinator), ÉTATS GENERAUX du film documentaire 2009, 2008, FR (volunteer at the guestservice), Aye Aye Film Festival 2007-2008, FR (Selection commitee - programme, shipping), Academia Film Olomouc 2007, CZ (Program Coordinator), Jihlava International documentary Film Festival 2007, CZ (Shipping Co-ordinator), East Silver 2004, CZ (Manager assistent).

Born in 1984. Received her M.A. in Film Studies from Charles University in Prague. In the past she cooperated with many film festivals (e.g., Febiofest, Summer Film School Uherské Hradiště, FamuFest, River Film Fest), had part in the programming concept of iShorts, etc. She is currently a PhD. student in the Film Studies Dept., Charles University. She joined IDF in 2011, responsible for the Czech Docs project and involved in a number of others.

Graduated in Film Studies and Czech Philology in Olomouc (2010). During the study years worked for local international festivals (Festival of Science Documentary Films - Academia Film Olomouc, PAF – Festival of Film Animation). Since 2009 works as East Silver Assistant and East Silver Caravan Coordinator. Apart from that works also as programme coordinator and selector for Summer Film School Uherske Hradiste (programme section: Silent film with live music) and occupies the same post also for annual festival of contemporary European cinema, Days of European Film in Prague. Occasionally also writes about film for several specialized magazines and websites (Cinepur, www.25fps.cz, www.dokweb.net).

Graduated in Aesthetics and Slovak Language and Literature in Bratislava and Prague, together with the complement Artes Liberales Film Studies in 2002. Between 1999 – 2005, she worked as an Editor and Literature and Film Journalist for Vlna magazine, organized film projects for Soros Centre of Contemporary Arts, Bratislava and worked for Nitra International Theatre Festival in Slovakia as a journalist and translator of drama. 2005 – 2006 worked for Designblok, days of Design in Prague as a Production Manager, prepared Slovak section of music videos and animated films as a Curator for Datatransfer – festival of new visual styles in Prague. She also worked for FAMU – Documentary Film Department in Prague.

Recently on maternity leave. From 1999 worked as a freelance production assistant and 2nd AD on several projects for companies producing mostly TV content. In 2001 – 2003, before returning to the film and TV industry, she worked as a project manager for Internet development company Media Capitol, developing online projects for local TV Broadcasters, including HBO Czech Republic. She has worked as an interpreter/personal assistant for the IFF Karlovy Vary in 2000 – 2007 and is currently studying Theory of Interactive Media at Faculty of Arts of Masaryk University in Brno. Anna has joined the East Silver team in 2006.