Jana Ševčíková

Directing·Apr 22, 1953·Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]

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With films that reflect on life in contemporary Eastern Europe, Czech filmmaker Jana Ševcíková has distinguished herself as a practitioner of poetic documentary. A graduate of the Prague Film Academy, her thesis film, Piemule (1984), offers a frank examination of Czech émigrés in Romania during the final years of Ceausecu‘s totaltitarian regime. She has produced films independently, such as Jakub (1992), and received state funding from the Czech Ministry of Culture. Her films have been shown at festivals in Berlin, Strasbourg, Karlovy Vary and Cracow. Praised throughout Europe, Ševčíková‘s intimately crafted works challenge the distanced conventions of ethnographic filmmaking.

Film	Credit
Those Who Dance in the Dark2022 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Lean A Ladder Against Heaven2014 · Director, Writer, Producer	Director, Writer, Producer
Gyumri2008 · Director, Writer, Producer	Director, Writer, Producer
QQ & A with Jana Sevcikova and Werner Herzog2005 · Self	Self
TThe Rite of Spring2002 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
The Old Believers2002 · Director, Writer, Producer	Director, Writer, Producer
Jakub1992 · Director, Producer, Screenplay	Director, Producer, Screenplay
TTulakóna1986 · Screenplay, Director	Screenplay, Director
Piemule1984 · Director, Writer, Producer	Director, Writer, Producer
WWorldly Children1981 · Director	Director