Eva Csölleová, Vítek Formánek

Eva Csölleová, Vítek Formánek

Tvůrčí duo ve složení fotografka - korektorka Eva Csölleová a spisovatel - redaktor Vítek Formánek. Zkušenosti mají s prácí pro časopisy jako Cinema nebo Interview. Vydali desítku knih u nás i v zahraničí. Zaměřují se na interview se zajímavými lidmi či osobnostmi kulturní scény z celého světa.

Everybody knows a name of this French actor, who was born on 9. 4. 1933. He wasn´t even 30 years old when he became a star almost overnight. Thanks to his fine look, charisma, attitude, sense of humour, sense for justice and honour and 100 % approach to every film, he became a legend. He became a symbol and treasure of France as well as Eiffel Tower.

During communism, when action movies weren´t made yet in mass quantity and those Americans didn´t get to Czech cinemas, his crime- films or comedies, where he himself did all stunt work, were absolute top for our audience.

He depicted true masculine hero, who was often alone against the evil or system. He was a man every young boy wanted to be and every woman were longing for. Funnily, audience wanted him in these roles and didn´t accept him as enthusiastically in different ones. Despite his heavenly stardom, he stood firmly with his feet on the ground, never turned back to his fans, he was always high- principled man who never forgot what his parents told him. He became an icon. Rest in piece.

As a source of information we used his biography written by Philippe Durant.

We never made an interview with Indian handicapped person so were looking for some and found armless lady Swapna Augustine born in Paingottoor in Kerala´s Ernakulam district 43 years ago. Her mother was shocked when her first baby was born without hands since in late 70´s medical technology wasn´t as advanced as it is now and there were no means of scanning growing baby inside mother´s belly. Two sons and one daughter were born afterwards but were perfectly healthy. But young Swapna didn´t give up and tried to live a life as fully as possible and now she is well respected foot-painter. We really liked her amazing pictures and thanks to Ayswaya Pillai-coordinator of artists from Indian Mouth and Foot Painters Association (IMFPA) we managed to make an interview with her.

It has been a full year since we started wearing face masks and life has been badly restricted. Every day we read negative news about death, virus, more infected people, about accidents and also about government decisions which are often very antagonistic. There are no gigs, no film festivals, no theatre plays, no nothing, Culture is in standstill and slowly dies. We mustn´t allow that happen.

SF4AF!  Multicultural section

Make an interview with Crass was for me like Mt. Everest is for mountain climbers, I always dreamt about it but never thought it will actually happen. But thanks to kind help and effort from Sid Truelove and Zillah Minx of Rubella Ballet and Steve Ignorants´s wife Jona, we managed to sit face to face (screen to screen) and talk for 40 minutes. Steve was very very kind and nice and answered everything I asked him so that was very fulfilling and I couldn´t ask for more.

 

Unique Czech/English book In Defiance of Hollywood is about independent film in the world, first of its kind. Book starts with flashback to the beginning of independent film at early 20th century. In 17 chapters divided by the topics we use views of 100 film personalities from 29 countries of the world of 4 continents.