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Radim Procházka
(b. 1975) producer, director, screenwriter, mentor

Born in 1975, prominent Czech film and TV producer, director, mentor and scriptwriter. He is responsible for almost 20 feature films, half are fictional and have been in receipt of many Czech and international awards. He is member of the European Film Academy and Producer on the Move 2011. Since 2012 he a mentor of directing courses at the international department of Prague's film school FAMU. He is focusing on international co-productions and on films by debut-making directors as well as the last active film-maker of the Czechoslovak New Wave, Karel Vachek whose latest opus COMMUNISM AND THE NET OR THE END OF REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY premiered at the IFFR in January 2020. The mysterious comedy-debut SCHMITKE by Stepan Altrichter filmed in co-production with Germany, premiered in Busan, won Best Debut at Cottbus IFF and 2 Czech Lions – main national film award. Debut DUST OF THE GROUND (by Vít Zapletal) was premiered at East of the West Competition at KVIFF 2015 and nominated for Czech Film Critics Award for the Best Script.

Another area of his interest is the development of genre films (pop science WHOSE IS MY CHILD which was produced and co-directed with Marek Duda, the first Czech wildlife film WILDER THAN WILDERNESS by Marián Polák or the action comedy THE FIRST ACTION HERO by Jan Haluza).

The latest of his international minority co-production is the Icelandic-Czech documentary THE VASULKA EFFEKT by Hrafnhildur Gunnarsdóttir, a portrait of the pioneers of video art by Woody and Steina Vasulka which was released this year at IFFR or Sheffield Doc/Fest. Feature essay from Latvian-Russian border D IS FOR DIVISON by Davis Simanis was premiered in 2019 at Vision du Reel Nyon.

Prochazka`s TV docu-drama script TELEVISION WILL BE! by Jan Bušta is a pseudo single shot film about the beginning of TV broadcasting under the Czechoslovak comunist regime of the 1950s. Latest piece of directing (with Robin Kvapil), a portrait of the Czech presidential elections YES WE CAN! which opened Jihlava IDFF in 2018. In 2019 he founded new company Kuli Film as a professional background for his mostly arthouse animated, documentary and feature films. He is currently in production with a short animated film by Jan Cechl LAWRENCE FROM MORAVIA in a Czech-Portuguese co-production and is developing the feature-length puppet film by Petr Vodička BABU IN THE NIGHT CITY. As a minority co-producer, he participates in the production of Slovak-Hungarian-Czech feature film by the well-known Hungarian director Gyula Nemes BLINDS and is developing the auteur project of Lukáš Masner IN THE STORM AND WINDS. The first Czech wildlife cinema feature WILDER THAN WILDERNESS was seen by 100,000 people in Czech cinemas and Procházka's previous collaboration with BABU author Petr Vodička, the short puppet film CHARLIE THE SNOWMAN'S CHRISTMAS WEDDING received French and Belgian cinema distribution. He runs his own film club Citrus Cycle where he presents debutant films every month and moderates public discussions with their authors.

Selected filmography: Selected awards: External sources:
 * 2020 Terezínské stíny | Shadows of Theresienstadt (producer, animation/fiction short, d. Miloš Zvěřina)
 * 2019 První akční hrdina | First Action Hero (producer, fiction short, dir. Jan Haluza, CZE)
 * 2018 Neklidná hranice | D is for Division (co-producer, doc., dir. Davis Simanis, LAT, CZE)
 * 2018 Máme navíc | Yes We Can (producer / director, doc., dir. Robin Kvapil, Radim Procházka, CZE)
 * 2017 Planeta Česko | Wilder Than Wilderness (producer, wildlife, dir. Marián Polák, CZE)
 * 2017 Vánoční svatba sněhuláka Karla | Snowman Charlie`s Christmas Wedding (producer, puppet short, dir. Petr Vodička, CZE)
 * 2016 Jmenuji se Hladový Bizon | My Name is Hungry Buffalo (producer, doc., dir. Pavel Jurda)
 * 2015 Koudeka fotografuje Svatou zemi | Koudelka Shooting Holy Land (co-producer, doc, dir. Gilad Barama)
 * 2015 Prach | Dust of the Groud (producer, fiction, dir. Vít Zapletal)
 * 2014 Schmitke | Schmitke (co-producer, fiction, dir. Štěpán Altrichter
 * 2014 Televise bude! | Television will be! (scripwriter, docu-drama, dir. Jan Bušta,)
 * 2014 Čí je moje dítě | Whose is My Child (producer, co-dir.)
 * 2012 Křehká identita | Fragile Indentity (co-producer, doc, dir. Zuzana Piussi, SVK, CZE)
 * 2012 Pupek nebe | Navel of the Sky (doc, dir.)
 * 2011 Rodina je základ státu | Long Live the Family! (producer, feature, dir. Robert Sedlacek)
 * 2011 Tmář a jeho rod | Obscurantist and his Lineage (producer, documentary feature, dir. Karel Vachek)
 * 2011 24 | 24 (co-director)
 * 2010 Největší z Čechů | The Greatest Czechs (producer, feature, dir. Robert Sedlacek)
 * 2020 Czech Film Critics Award for Best Doc – nomination ¬– Communism and The Net Or The End Of Representative Democracy
 * 2019 Czech Lion for Best Doc – nomination ¬– Wilder Than Wilderness
 * 2018 ECFA Award – nomination – Best Doc for Children and Youth ¬– Wilder Than Wilderness
 * 2018 2018 Audience Award, Biennial of Animation, Bratislava – Charlie the Snowman’s Christmas Wedding
 * 2018 Zlín IFF Best European Doc ¬– Wilder Than Wilderness
 * 2017 The Essay Film Award, FIFA Montreal - Koudelka Shooting Holy Land 2017 SkyArte Award, Trieste FF - Koudelka Shooting Holy Land
 * 2017 Czech Film Critics Award for Best Script – nomination - Dust of the Groud
 * 2016 Audience Award, Corsica.Doc - Koudelka Shooting Holy Land
 * 2016 Jury Special Mention, Finále Plzeň - Koudelka Shooting Holy Land
 * 2016 Pavla Koutecky Award - nominace - Koudelka Shooting Holy Land
 * 2016 2 Czech Lions for sound and music - Schmitke
 * 2015 Student Jury Award, Finále Plzeň FF - Schmitke
 * 2014 FIPRESCI Award, Schwerin FF - Schmitke
 * 2014 Best Debut, Cottbus IFF - Schmitke
 * 2014 Best Czech Pop-Science Film, AFO Olomouc IFF 2014 - Whose is My Child
 * 2013 Jury Special Mention, Torino IFF - Wolf
 * 2013 Self-appropriators Award: Andrej Stankovič Awards 2013 - Fragile Indetity
 * 2012 One World IFF Bratislava - Best Slovak Doc - Fragile Indetity
 * 2012 Film Critics Award - Best Film, Best Director, Best Script, Best Supporting Actress (Simona Babčáková) - Long Live the Family!
 * 2011 FNE Visegrad Prix, Jihlava IDFF – Obscurantist and His Lineage
 * 2011 Czech Lion: Film Critics and Theoreticians Award - nomination - The Greatest Czechs, Catenaccio á la Drnovice