Jana Ševčíková

With films that reflect on life in contemporary Eastern Europe, Czech filmmaker Jana Ševcíková has distinguished herself as a practitioner of poetic documentary. A graduate of the Prague Film Academy, her thesis film, Piemule (1984), offers a frank examination of Czech émigrés in Romania during the final years of Ceausecu‘s totaltitarian regime. She has produced films independently, such as Jakub (1992), and received state funding from the Czech Ministry of Culture. Her films have been shown at festivals in Berlin, Strasbourg, Karlovy Vary and Cracow. Praised throughout Europe, Ševčíková‘s intimately crafted works challenge the distanced conventions of ethnographic filmmaking.

Cast

Q & A with Jana Sevcikova and Werner Herzog

Self

Crew

Lean A Ladder Against Heaven

Writer, Director, Producer

Those Who Dance in the Dark

Director, Writer

The Rite of Spring

Screenplay, Director

Gyumri

Director, Producer, Writer

Piemule

Writer, Director, Presenter, Producer

The Old Believers

Director, Writer, Presenter, Producer

Jakub

Director, Producer, Screenplay

Sweetgrass

Thanks

Worldly Children

Director

Tulakóna

Screenplay, Director