„What will you do if you get back safe and sound from your space mission?”
“I’ll rejoice.”
– SELECTION COMMITTEE INTERVIEW
Petr Horký
Director, Script, Theme
Petr Horký
Director, Script, Theme
Petr Horký is a well known director of more than 100 travel documentaries (documentary series about rock climbing in the Balkans, the achievements of Czech archaeology abroad, world’s travel highlights and a famous Czech traveller Miroslav Zikmund, or about the metamorphoses of the world, a human body, health, medical treatment and artificial insemination…). He organizes or co-organizes some travel and film festivals (WorldFilm, BANFF and Unknown Earth) and is the author or co-author of many books (a bestseller The Old Man and the World about Miroslav Zikmund, travel books about Albania, Sri Lanka, Maldives and Cuba, and other non-fiction books…).
Travelling round the world has brought him some nice collaboration and a lot of marvellous meetings and filming with Thor Heyerdahl, Reinhold Messner, Arthur C. Clark, Erich von Däniken, Edmund Hillary, James Lovell and others. For two decades he has been collaboration with a famous Czech traveller Miroslav Zikmund sharing both their production and intergeneration friendship. In 2014 they together sent a documentary film about Miroslav Zikmund to cinemas. The Old Man and the World became the most popular documentary film of that year and was nominated for the annual Czech film award.
Jiří Dušek
Theme, Astronautics Consultant
Jiří Dušek
Theme, Astronautics Consultant
*1971, Director of Brno Observatory and Planetarium
In 1978, thanks to Vladimir Remek and the first Czechoslovak satellite Magion 1, he committed his soul to outer space. He more or less successfully graduated in astrophysics and has written several books about space (but also about spy satellites and nuclear weapons). He is the author of several scripts for planetarium shows (and also a director) and even today he still takes up a telescope to look at the stars. Since 2008 he has been Director of Brno Observatory and Planetarium. Nowadays he also coordinates popularisation of science and technology in the South Moravian Region and he is a member of the Senate of the Czech Republic. He loves Asia in all forms it offers. He is fascinated by futuristic audiovisual technologies and the microclimate of his family. He does not eat typical Czech sweet food “Dukátové buchtičky”, little yeast buns with vanilla cream.
Petr Juklíček
Production Manager
Petr Juklíček
Production Manager
*1973
He started his career as the script editor of Studio 6 in the Czech TV and then worked in promotions and for PR agencies. He has participated in many projects dealing with strategic communications, legislation, public relations and public affairs and political and sports marketing, and has produced all sorts of events including TV broadcasts.
Now he is engaged in filmmaking.
Jan Šimánek
Director of Photography
Jan Šimánek
Director of Photography
* …., Cameraman, Documentary Filmmaker
He has climbed various routes up to many sandstone towers. He graduated in photography at FAMU in Prague and started producing rock climbing documentaries, regularly awarded with prestigious prizes. He is a co-founder of an annual rock climbing festival in the sandstone rock area of Bohemian Paradise, Czech Republic, where he comes from.
Michal Stehlík
Historical Consultant
Michal Stehlík
Historical Consultant
*1976, Historian-Slovakist
He mainly specialises in Czech and Central European history of the 19th and 20th century. Between 2006 and 2014 he was Dean of Faculty of Arts of Charles University in Prague, where he still gives lectures on contemporary Czech history. Since 2014 he has been Deputy Director-General of National Museum in Prague and between 2014 and 2014 he was the Chairman of the Czech Radio Council. He is the author of many publications and exhibitions and is also engaged in popularisation of modern history in the media. He is still astonished discovering the world also thanks to the curiosity of his eight children.
