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Czech Filmmakers Cross Borders, Push Boundaries as Industry Rides State Support to Reach New Heights
With a new-look audiovisual law ramping up support for domestic production, Czech filmmakers are soaring to new heights.
“We have succeeded in establishing a growth-oriented system — the more successful Czech audiovisual production becomes, the more support it will receive, and the more funding will be available for film incentives,” Baxa says. Chlupáček, whose feature film directorial debut, “We Have Never Been Modern,” premiered at Karlovy Vary, is prepping his follow-up, “Sleep Well,” with French actress Nadia Tereszkiewicz — the breakout star of François Ozon’s “The Crime Is Mine” — cast in a leading role. Nvotová, who teaches at Prague’s venerable Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts, or FAMU, says her students possess a confidence and “courage” that’s helping to elevate Czech cinema and “move the industry to a whole other level, in terms of being recognized by the world.”
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