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Jana Ševčíková

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Directed movies: 6Directed series: 0All crew credits: 7

TMDB ID: 1303718

IMDb ID: nm0786233

Known for: Directing

Born: April 22, 1953

Age: 72

Place of birth: Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]

Gender: Female

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1984 - 2022

Years active: 39

Average TMDB rating: 6.8

Wikidata: Q19602162

Also known as

贾那·塞奇科瓦

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Biography

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.

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