11.6.2009
You can watch our documentary on Saturday June 13 at 8:45 PM on TV Barrandov.
23.3.2009
Though a little late, we would like to inform you that all three screenings of the
documentary in Swedish Göteborg were a success! At the same time we would like to
announce you that our documentary was selected for screening within Photomonth in
Krakow in Poland, which is scheduled for May, and also Clair Obscur Film Festival
in Swiss Basel, which will take place in December 2009
9.1.2009
We received an invitation to Göteborg International Film Festival in Sweden, which
will take place between January 23 and February 2. Director of the documentary Adolf
Zika will personally attend two screenings of the film. From Czech films, the festival
will also show Of Parents and Children by Vladimir Michalek and The Karamazovs by
Petr Zelenka. It is an honor to be included in the company of such films. Our documentary
will be shown in the category Images on Images, which includes films about art,
media, photography and film.
www.filmfestival.org
We just received wonderful news. Our film was very well received at the Denver festival,
both screenings were full and the film captivated fans of Jan Saudek as well as
those, who saw his work for the first time. You can read a reaction of one viewer
yourself at
www.velfilm.com.
We are impatiently waiting for our award to arrive, so that we can proudly show
it to you! But it has not found its way to us yet, it’s lost somewhere over the
sea. The last information we have is that the festival handed the award to someone
from our embassy in Canada.
15.11.2008
Our film came out today as a premium DVD with the newspaper Mladá Fronta DNES in
a special edition of 80,000 copies.
10.11.2008
We are so excited, our film has been chosen for another festival! It’s the Göteborg
International Film Festival in Sweden! It is the largest festival in Scandinavia.
29.10.2008
Our film jumped up on the visit rate chart, the current number is 28,000! Retail
sales of the film on DVD are also doing very well.
29.9.2008
Today we received a very kind email from Simona Hodos, manager of the EUROFEST festival
in Montreal. Where we received the Glass Eye award for best documentary film. After
the recent festival in Denver, this is the seventh festival where we've been shown.
In total we've been in three selections and three competitions.
24.8. 2008
Double the good news! Our film was selected to two more film festivals. We are in
the documentary competition section of The Moving Image Film Festival in Toronto
Canada. And the film will be shown as part of the selection for the European Film
Festival, which takes place in London.
11.8.2008
The Jan Saudek Film was screened at the Rhode Island International Film Festival
in the USA. An enthusiastic audience saw the film in the Columbus Cinematheque on
Saturday August 9th at 3:15 p.m.
8.8. 2008
The Saudek Documentary Film has been selected to screen at the 31st Starz Denver
Film Festival. The event takes place from the 13th to the 23rd of November in Colorado.
23.6.2008
We lent the screening copy of the Jan Saudek film to the Seoul International Film
Festival for a special showing in the noncompetitive section.
12.6.2008
The Jan Saudek film has been selected by the Krakow Film Festival for the noncompetitive
section. The Polish, who greatly appreciate Jan Saudek, enjoyed the film immensely.
Additionally, a 35mm film was used for the screening at this festival.
1.5.2008
From the 26th of May you can purchase a DVD copy of the film at Bontonland, Datart,
Tesco, Electroworld and other stores. The DVD also includes a booklet and a piece
of the actual film screened at the premier! The DVD will be available for rental
from the 12th of May. Bonus materials include scenes cut from the original film
and interviews with the creators, including the director Adolf Zika and Jan Saudek.
Also on the DVD you'll find some of the work of Karl Saudek. All Czech dialogue
includes the option for English subtitles. The DVD has a unique packaging design
and a creative navigation menu.
Our film gained big success in Slovakia. The visit rate at the premiere was great
and reactions of the Slovak public were very positive.
17. 3. 2008
Our documentary travels into another country. On the 18th of March, the film is
going to be distributed in Slovakia by the Palace Picture Slovakia company. The
capital city of Bratislava may look forward to the film's premiere on the 18th March
at 19:30 in the Aupark cinema.
27. 2.2008
We proudly announce that our film has been chosen to participate in the documentary
film main competition of film festival Finale 2008, that will take place in Plzen
on 21.4. – 27.4.
http://www.filmfestfinale.cz/cz/
From 13.3. until 19.3., you may see the film subtitled in English in the MAT cinema
at Karlovo náměstí 19
www.mat.cz
We proudly announce that on this date we now occupy second place on the current
chart of Czech documentary films’ visit rates and sixth place on the chart of all
documentary films that have ever been released in Czech cinemas. We are looking
forward to future development. You may find the chart of documentary films at the
top of this page.
10.1.2008
The making of DVD master and TV master is in progress at the moment.
19.12.2007
The gala premiere of the film took place at Slovansky dum in the Palace Cinemas
theaters in Prague and will be further distributed in 13 copies through Czech Republic.
13.12.2007
We are working on the last graphic remarks and choices of posters and other promotion
materials and objects of publicity.
11.12.2007
The first combined copy is finished. The auditorial projection took place in film
laboratories. The quality of the picture and sound quality has fulfilled our expectations
and we now see the completed picture, together with the sound for the first time
and on a big screen. Everything has worked out very well and we’re happy.
7.12.2007
The Film Laboratories Barrandov are developing the sound negative, which will be
put together with the picture negative so that we’d have a combined copy.
4.12.2007
Final work is in progress at the studio Virtual on the film’s sound. Even though
we are really exhausted, we remain optimistic.
15.11.2007
Final work on the picture's post production is in progress. We are adding the subtitles,
tricks and color corrections. The next step will be creating the negative, and following
development of the negative in the Film Studios Barrandov.
6.11.2007
On Monday, November the 5th, a firs press projection for monthly magazines was held.
It took place in the Mat cinema on Karlovo namesti in Prague. The reactions were
positive, but we better don’t celebrate yet and don’t get our feet off the gas pedal!
25.10.2007
The online edit is done and the film trailer is in cinemas! You can see the trailer
on the big cinema screens from October the 18th.
12.10.2007
The firs combined copy of the trailer is born. You’ve got the opportunity to watch
it on our pages in the „press“ section.
26.9.2007
We’re cutting our way through „online“, facing some film makers‘ problems and fighting
them down bravely.
24.9.2007
Totally exhausted and powerless, we’ve successfully finished the “offline” cut,
which has 95 minutes.
15.9.2007
Our cutters trio begins working on the film trailer, which you’ll be soon able to
watch here on our pages.
10.9.2007
In the recent weeks we have been dealing with various companies regarding a selection
of film archive pictures from the times of war and we have decided to work with
the association “K2” and its owner – Mr. Štingl. Today the ”offline“ has 145 minutes.
4.9.2007
There is recording with Mr. Jan Saudek going on in the Sound Post Production Studio
– Virtual today. Mr. Saudek talks about his inside feelings and ideas.
27.8.2007
At the present we have got various artists working on the classically animated and
3D animations.
17.8.2007
We still have a lot of work before us and though the power might not be always with
us the thrill still is! And how far are we with the cutting? After the fourth offline
week has our film some incredible 195 minutes!
10.8.2007
There are some important meetings with our potential distributors awaiting us in
the following week.
6.8.2007
The distinguished music composer Varhan Orchestrovič Bauer, who was supposed to
participate on the music for our film, was substituted by an artist of a slightly
different nature. By a person whose life style is more than amazing. Mr. Claus Grabke
is just what we need for our film. The songs we have chosen are just like they were
composed right for the film! Claus Grabke is not only a magnificent composer, he
also is one of the greatest skateboarders of all times. In the “THE MAKERS” section,
in Claus Grabke’s CV, are two Clause’s video clips. Be sure to check these!
30.7.2007
We’re in the „offline mode“, already from 23.7. Our cutting team “Bob Sean Clark”
– cameraman Robert Bílý, the director Adolf Zika and post production supervisor
Karel Coma, had already spent a week in the cutting room and still have more and
there is still more and more work to be done.
21.7.2007
The last day of filming was very hectic. In the morning we visited the Olsanska
Graveyard. The second half of the team was taking images of correspondences and
books in the studio. In the afternoon we were working at two locations. The first,
directly under the steps of Jan Zizka of Trocnov, which Jan looks at everything
day from his apartment window and the second in the house of his brother Kaja Saudek.
Here we conducted interviews with his daughter Berenika and wife Johana. In the
evening three months of stress fell from our shoulders and at the Barrandov cliffs
we celebrated the 35th birthday of our director, but most importantly we welcomed
Jan Saudek who arrived in a large Cadillac to celebrate the end of the filming!
We all wished each other good luck and had a few drinks.
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