Michaela Režová is a filmmaker and director, focusing on the genre of the animated document and its forms. She studied animation under Jiří Barta in Plzen, then at UMPRUM, and in 2013 had an exchange program at the prestigious French school La Poudrière. Her graduation film Štvanice (Pursuit, 2017) on the Communist show-trial and subsequent brutal imprisonment of the Czechoslovak hockey players Modrý et al., won the grand prize at the Marienbad Film Festival, was chosen for the selection Best Czech Shorts 2018, and shown at many international festivals. Recently, she has worked as creative director for projects of 360° film projection for the exhibitions on 2oth-century history at the National Museum or the films for the exhibition “Design and Transformation: The Stories of Czech Design 1900–2020”. For Czech Radio, she completed the animated documentary Gambler. She has been the main force behind the research and preparation of the exhibition and publication to mark the 70th anniversary of the founding of the animation studio at UMPRUM. Additionally, she is the founder of the platform f-a-t.cz, which under the slogan “From animators to animators” presents information from the world of animated film. Currently, she a PhD candidate at UMPRUM, where she also lectures on the theory and history of animation.
