Director, screenwriter, actor and producer Paul Weitz was born on 19.11.1969. He is 4 years older to his  brother Chris.He grew up in New York Ciry, attended The Allen-Stevenson School and graduated from Westeyan University. It was here where he wrote his „ Mango Tea“ which was performed off-Broadway.He gained his fame with animation called „ Antz“ which he worked upon with Chris and Todd Alcott.Both brothers gained even more success with comedy smash hit American Pie“. Paul directed „About a Boy“ for which they received Academy Award  nomination for Best Adapted screenplay. Paul is also credited for directing romantic comedy „ In good company“ and political satire „ American dreamz“.

We all know that Indian film industry is one of the biggest film producing countries in the world and it produces more than 1200 feature films every year in more than 19 regional languages in India. It is also popularly known as Bollywood outside India.We met Srinivasa Santhanam recently in Zlín film festival who worked for  mor than 3 decades in the film festival circuit   and asked him to tell us abouit his way to film industry and about his mission. 

Petr Jarchovský was born on 6.10.1966 in Prague.He belongs to our most successfull screenplay writers and he wrote topics for  very successfull movies such as “ Šakalí léta”, “ Pelíšky”, “ Musíme si pomáhat”, “ Želary”, “ Horem pádem”, “ Kawasakiho růže” or “ “Občanský průkaz”.Majority of his screenplays was transferred onto screen by his life–long friend Jan Hřebejk.We were interested how it works in tandem Jarchovský- Hřebejk  and how arises screenplay which receives award “ Český lev” or is nominated for Academy Award.

English actor Alan Rickman came as a guest to FebioFest to promote his latest film „ A little chaos“  which he directed.He is mostly known for his role in „Die Hard I“, „ Love actually: „Rasputin“ or „Harry Potter“. He also received  major price Kristian for contribution to world film.Alan looks distant but he can smile and also has a sence of humour so discussion with him wasn‘ t boring at all.

 Another star guest of FebioFest was English director John Madden who brought here his current movie “Second Exotic Marigold Hotel”.He started his career in theatre and in independent  film and got Academy Award for his movie “ Shakespeare in love”.So we talked about the thorny way from bottom to the top.