Guests 2024

Guests

At the festival you can meet special guests from the ranks of filmmakers, filmmakers, scientists from abroad and from Czech universities.

Laurent Portes

director
Ivohiboro: The Lost Forest

Laurent Portes

Laurent Portes was born in the Paris suburb of Vincennes in 1965, and has been making reports and documentaries since 1995. He has made over 70 films for France Télévisions and most other French channels, on subjects as diverse as geopolitics (“Kosovo, 7000 French at war", 1999), criminology (“Confessions and denials”, 2005), the performing arts (“The monks and the horseman”, 2003), the conquest of space (“Last days of Yuri Gagarin”, 2007) or ethnology (“Christians of the Himalaya”, 2007). A history buff, he has also directed a number of historical documentaries, including the 8-episode series “The day when...”, broadcast by France 5. He is also the author of several political films (“Wedding for all, the great divorce”, 2016) and a series of portraits of French presidents (Nicolas Sarkozy, 2013; François Hollande, 2014; Jacques Chirac, 2015). Since 2019, he has focused mainly on making scientific films for France 5, and directs a collection of historical films for Planète+ (“Legendary battles”).

Clément Champiat

director Da Vinci’s Dream:
The Secrets od Flight

Clément Champiat

After a career as an environmental engineer, he started journalism working with investigative newspapers. He then turned to writing and directing scientific or investigative documentaries for television. His work focuses on the evolution of life and the relationships between humans and their environment.

Robyn Metcalfe

executive producer
and founder of The Lunar Society

Robyn Metcalfe

She has founded other adventures in publishing and agricultural conservation. Books include The Wizard War, Meat, Market, and the City, Food Routes and Humans in Our Food. Publications include Food+City and documentary films include The Long Coast, Arc of Oblivion, and Shelf Life. She received her bachelor’s degree from The University of Michigan and her masters and doctorate from Boston University. She was a professor at The University of Texas at Austin for 12 years.

Kevin Schreck

award-winning
documentary filmmaker

Kevin Schreck

At the age of 23, Kevin's first major project, "Persistence of Vision" (2012), made its premiere, and has since screened at over 100 international film festivals and institutions to virtually universal acclaim. His subsequent films include "Tangent Realms: The Worlds of C.M. Kösemen" (2018), "The Duck of New York" (2023), and "Antarctic Voyage" (2024). Kevin is currently in production on "Enongo," a feature-length, documentary-animation hybrid about a young woman rapper and scientist. As an educator, Kevin has led filmmaking masterclasses and guest lectures at major universities in Australia, Denmark, and across the United States.

Gautier Dubois

screenwriter
Ivohiboro: The Lost Forest

Gautier Dubois

My name is Gautier Dubois, I am 35 years old and I work in the documentary industry since 2011 now. My main job is to find and imagine stories to create wildlife, science and history documentary and documentaries series. I have been involved in writing and scripting around 50 documentaries in the last 10 years for major TV channels in France, Europe and Northern America, such as France 2, France 5, ARTE, PBS or National Geographic. I also direct documentaries sometimes, but most of my job is dedicated to write and take on the editorial part of shootings. Indeed, what I like the most is to go around the world to shape and mold stories to tell to the viewers. Clearly, it is the job that I was dreaming for when I was a kid, watching National Geographic’s documentaries on TV instead of doing my school home work. Today, I am very glad that my job took all around the world in wonderful places like Madagascar, Great Plains of Northern America, India, British Columbia, Oman, Scandinavia, Amazon rainforest, Ethiopia, Mongolia, amongst many other places. Being in the wilderness or in historical places is an incredible feeling, but being in charge of telling and recounting a beautiful story is even stronger, to me.

Radek Plíhal

director
Water Lost and Returned

Radek Plíhal

A whole life interest in nature, photography and documentary film resulted in almost three years of work on the film Water Lost and Returned, telling the story of the return of water to the landscape of Šumava National Park. Fascinated by the French documentary filmmakers, he does not try to overwhelm the viewer with a waterfall of information and numbers, but to capture their attention through an emotional combination of music and images, giving them the opportunity to reflect and experience the film.

Michal Knapp

department of Ecology,
ČZU

Michal Knapp

Priority areas of focus for the Insect Ecology Team include the conservation of arthropods in areas most affected by human activities, such as agricultural landscapes, urban environments and post-industrial sites. In addition to research, we also try to help practically, looking after selected sites, popularising the topic of arthropod conservation, engaging the public through citizen science, and activistically trying to advise politicians on what would be the right thing to do.

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Aleš Vorel

ecologist specializing
in mammal research, ČZU

Aleš Vorel

He is involved in ecological research on mammals, especially newly expanding ones. As a rule, these are species that are newly settled in the Central European landscape, but which is strongly affected by human influence. The subject of the research are old questions - what spatial framework do these re-spreading species have or require? What landscape components do they use? What is the relationship between the resources that humans have left in Central Europe and the demands of species that are rapidly expanding? Two mammalian species can be defined as perfect models for these questions: the beaver and the wolf.

Filip Harabiš

ecologist specializing
in insects, ČZU

Filip Harabiš

Marek Špinka

ethologist,
ČZU

Marek Špinka

I am an ethologist, i.e. a researcher trying to understand the behaviour of animals, including humans, through scientific research. I studied zoology at Charles University. I have mainly studied the behaviour of pigs and cattle, but also rats, monkeys, birds and humans. I am particularly interested in social behaviour: play of young animals, maternal behaviour, vocal communication, group behaviour, relationships between individual animals and behaviour related to emotions. In farm animals, I have also been looking at methods to determine the quality of life as perceived by the animals themselves and how to improve the conditions of their life in the stables. I teach and work as a researcher at the Czech University of Agriculture in Prague, and I also lecture on comparative and evolutionary psychology at Charles University.

Iveta Klojdová

associate professor at FAPPZ, ČZU

Iveta Klojdová

Associate professor at the Faculty of Agrobiology, Food and Natural Resources As a senior researcher, she is involved in the international Horizon 2020 project DRIFT-FOOD, ERA Chair. In her scientific research activities, apart from dairy technology, she is mainly involved in the development, characterization and application of colloidal systems for use as part of functional foods, carriers of bioactive substances for the supportive treatment of inflammatory diseases, etc. She is also involved in the valorization of by-products of food production and waste and is the author or co-author of a number of scientific articles.

Běla Bonušová

PhD student,
ČZU

Běla Bonušová

My research focuses on the soil ecosystem in the context of agroforestry and other sustainable farming practices. In addition to my academic work, I am also involved in practical farming and participate in field days and other professional events where I learn about new developments in sustainable agriculture and apply the knowledge to my work.

Lukáš Linhart

forester of the National
Šumava Park

Lukáš Linhart

He works at the Šumava National Park Administration, where he is involved in wetland restoration in the LIFE for MIRES project team and communicates this topic in various ways. As a volunteer coordinator, he participates in revitalization measures, which he also introduces to Šumava lovers, students, experts and the media during field trips. He tries to spread the idea of the usefulness of wetlands for the landscape and people beyond the borders of the national park.

Guests

Laurent Portes

Clément Champiat

Robyn Metcalfe

Kevin Schreck

Gautier Dubois

Radek Plíhal

Michal Knapp

Aleš Vorel

Filip Harabiš

Marek Špinka

Iveta Klojdová

Běla Bonušová

Lukáš Linhart

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