Marta Nováková
- Director
- Writer
- Producer
Marta Novakova, born in Slavicin, Czech Rep. Graduated from
the Zlin Film School in 1996, adapting A. P. Chekhov's story for a film
entitled Spat a spat / I Want to Sleep. The short was awarded at
numerous festivals, including Poitiers, Cottbus, and Augsburg, among
others. During the years 1997 - 2005, she studied directing at FAMU in
Prague; among her teachers were Jaromil Jires, Karel Kachyna and Sasa
Gedeon. In 2003, she spent half a year as an intern at VGIK in Moscow.
From 1999 till 2008 she read Russian studies at the Charles University,
graduating with a major. In 2006 she shot the film Marta, which was her
graduation film at FAMU and also her first feature. The film was
successfully presented at numerous festivals including e.g. Pusan,
Goteborg, Cairo, Karlovy Vary and Copenhagen. Her second feature
entitled 8 hlav silenstvi / 8 Heads of Madness is in development.