Petr Jákl sr. can say that everything he touched turned into gold.He was succesfull student, graduated on two universities.He represented Czechoslovakia in judo, was Academic Europan Champion in 1964, got bronze medal on Academic World Championship.On Olympic Games in 1972 he finished 7th and 13x was Czech national champion.He became one of our first and best stuntman, acted in hundreds of films and at the present time he is successful producer.He showed great respect for burnt airmen in WWII“ The Guinea Pigs“ and really liked the documentary which Unitedfilm made about František Truhlář, one of the Czech bravest airmen burnt twice during the war.One doesn´t see this very often in merciless film business. We showed an interest in making the interview with him which he duly did.

World wide known writer, illustrator and director of animated film Pet Sís, who has been living in New York for past 3 decades looks more like a rocker then book writer.Although we met each other at Zlín film festival for the first time in our life, he was so open, friendly and direct that it looked as if old friends met again after many many years.

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.