Tereza Nvotova

Tereza Nvotová's (1988, Czechoslovakia) sophomore feature, Nightsiren (Svetlonoc, 2022), premiered in Locarno IFF - Cineasti del presente, where it won the Pardo D'Oro (Golden Leopard) for the Best (...) Film. Following, in Sitges IFF the film won the Silver Melies for the Best European Production. The film traveled more than 40 international film festivals where Tereza received multiple Best Directing awards. It has been sold for distribution to US, Germany, Japan, Poland, South Korea, Portugal, UK and other. Her feature debut FILTHY (Špina, 2017), which was Tereza’s graduation film, has been screened in festivals around the world including Rotterdam, Karlovy Vary, Cairo, and Santa Barbara. During its distribution FILTHY took home more than 20 awards, including the Czech Film Critics Award for the Best Film of the year. Tereza collaborates with various broadcasting companies, most notably HBO who has co-produced her feature debut and two documentary films. Her latest HBO documentary THE LUST FOR POWER (Mečiar, 2017) has been shortlisted for the European Film Academy Awards 2018. It was critically acclaimed and has caused heated debate about populism and corruption in politics. Tereza is teaching students of direction at Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (FAMU). She is currently in production of her third feature FATHER (SK,CZ,PL) and working on TV mini-series OUR PEOPLE that won Series Mania 2024. She lives between Prague and New York.