Background
Vaclav was born in Prague and graduated from FAMU.
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Petr Vaclav
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Academy of Performing Arts. Film and television School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague.
Career
He has lived in Paris since 2003 and holds both French and Czechoslovakian citizenship. His second feature, Paralelní světy (Parallel Worlds) of 2001 was written in collaboration with the French screenwriter Marie Desplechin and selected for presentation at the San Sebastián International Film Festival. The film Cesta ven (The Way Out), released in France as Zaneta, premiered at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival.
He is finishing a new French-Italian co-production, Skokan, which is now in post-production.
This documentary is a part of the development of a far more ambitious project: a biographical film based on the life of the composer Josef Mysliveček with the title Il Boemo that is being prepared in collaboration with the American musicologist Daniel East. Freeman and Czechoslovakian conductor Václav Luks, artistic director of the early music ensemble Collegium 1704. He was a pensioner of the French Academy in Rome at the Villa Medici in 2010-2011.
Achievements
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His short documentary Paní Le Murie (Madame Le Murie) of 1993 was nominated for FAMU"s Student Academy Award and won a prize for best documentary at the Internationales Festival der Filmhochschulen (Filmschoolfest) in Munich. Vaclav´s first feature film, Marian (1996) won the Silver Leopard and FIPRESCI Award at the Locarno International Film Festival and other prizes at film festivals in Angers, Thessaloniki, Belfort, Cottbus, Bratislava and Tehran. lieutenant won seven Czechoslovakian Lion awards for the year 2014, including best film, best director, and best screenplay. Vaclav"s film Nikdy nejsme sami (We Are Never Alone) opened at the 2016 Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale) in the Forum category and won the Tagesspiel Readers" Jury Award. His documentary Zpověď zapomenutého (Confession of the Vanished), which portrays the life of the Czechoslovakian-Italian composer Josef Mysliveček, was shown at the FIPA International Competition in Biarritz in 2016 and won the gold prize in its category (the FIPA d"or). lieutenant is also the winner of the 2016 Trilobit Award.
Membership
Vaclav is a member of the European Film Academy of Berlin and the Czechoslovakian Film and Television Academy.
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Czechoslovakian Republic