Directing
Community Rating
6.5
TMDB estimate
Born
April 22, 1953 (age 73)
Born in
Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]
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.
Those Who Dance in the Dark
as Director, Writer
2022
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Lean A Ladder Against Heaven
as Director, Writer, Producer
2014
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Sweetgrass
as Thanks
2009
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Gyumri
as Director, Writer, Producer
2008
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Q & A with Jana Sevcikova and Werner Herzog
as Self
2005
—The Rite of Spring
as Director, Screenplay
2002
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The Old Believers
as Director, Writer, Presenter, Producer
2002
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Jakub
as Director, Producer, Screenplay
1992
—Tulakóna
as Screenplay, Director
1986
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Piemule
as Director, Writer, Presenter, Producer
1984
—Worldly Children
as Director
1981
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