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Documentary-style filmmaker and photographer from Prague. I am focused on docu-style filming, both documentary and corporate. In the past years, I was working with NGOs Adra, People in Need, and Doctors Without Borders on their projects in Ukraine, Cambodia, and Myanmar. I keep coming back to Eastern Ukraine, following the development in the region. The latest project from the area is the website Forgotten war depicting the ongoing war in Donbas. I am based in Prague where I am shooting mostly short commercial videos for digital advertising or working on TV documetaries series for Czech television. In order to be able to travel to high-risk areas, I took a safety course for humanitarian aid workers. I speak Czech, English, Slovak, and Russian.

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• Video Editor - News
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Martin Trabalik is a Czech documentarist based in Prague. In his work, he focuses on social and humanitarian issues. In January 2016 he volunteered during the European refugee crisis in Greece becoming interested in photography in the process. Since then he has worked on several projects in Nagorno-Karabakh, Donbash, Bangladesh, Afghanistan and other areas. In the year 2018, he was awarded UNGRC and Czech Press Photo prize in the category Problems of our age for covering the Rohingya's expulsion from Myanmar. In 2021 he directed and produced documentary movie Incendios about forest fires in Bolivia which was awarded Best Documentary Feature at the International Film Festival in La Paz. Awards: 2018 - Czech Press Photo - UNHCR Award 2018 - Czech Press Photo – 1. first place in Problems of our Age 2019 - Chromatic Awards – Photojournalism Honorable mention 2021 - FICLAPAZ - Incendios - Best documentary Feature

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I am an award winning news/documentary correspondent, producer, writer, cameraman and editor with experience of 16 years. I can work with and lead teams or operate alone as a one man band. I was born in Czechoslovakia. My first media job was a producer of musical programs for Czechoslovak Television. In 1991, I moved to the USA where I studied Newsgathering for Television at University of Colorado. Joined CNN in April 1999 as an International Desk Assignment Editor in Atlanta and later became a Field Producer. I was based in Berlin in 2005 and 2006. During my assignments in Afghanistan and Iraq, I learned how to shoot and edit. I occasionally report on CNN air and write for CNN.com. Besides wars, conflicts and natural disasters, I covered major political, economic or sport events in more then 60 countries. Since 2007, I was based in China covering Asia as a CNN producer and a correspondent for the Czech Television. I now live with my family in Hong Kong. I won an Emmy Award in 2008.

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• Video Editor - Commercial

Parinee Buthrasri is a cinematographer and producer based in Thailand and Czech Republic. She began her career at Electric Eel Films in 2009 as a still photographer for a film Mundane History. Throughout her 8 years of experience in film industry, she has earned a lot of knowledge on independent film production and has expanded her connection throughout SouthEast Asian film industry. In 2018, Buthrasri decided to continue her ambition in visual story telling and pursued her MA in cinematography at Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts (FAMU) in Prague, Czech Republic. Buthrasri’s works bring to play with the use of 16mm and 35mm negative and natural lighting.  Her most recent works included A Room With A Coconut View (2018), directed by Tulapop Saenjaroen, had its world premiere at 71st Locarno Film Festival and won awards from Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur, Arkipel Festival Jakarta and Moscow International Experimental Film Festival. With the same collaborator, People on Sunday (2020), premiered at 49th International Film Festival Rotterdam 2020 and won Special Mention Award from Moving Image category, Julius Baer Next Generation Art Prize, Singapore and 24th Thai Short Film and Video Festival. In 2021, Lemongrass Girl (2021), directed by Pom Bunsermvicha, had its world premiere at 50th International Film Festival Rotterdam 2021 - Tiger Short Competition. 

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• Gaffer
• Corporate Videographer
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• Colorist
• Portrait Photographer

Started My professional career as a Film Director on 2011. On 2013 I graduated from the cinema department, the French University in Cairo. During my journey I directed 10 documentaries among them were: 1- Painting in the Dark 2- Hambalio - Somali Weddings. 3- The Bedouin Desert. I also worked on a number of TV commercials, Programs, corporate videos, and short movies for multinational companies such as Vodafone, Coca-Cola, General Motors, and others.

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1990 - 1994 Media Grapics School, Prague 1994 - 1995 Language School Akcent, English 1995 – 2001 Radio Frekvence 1 and Radio Evropa 2, reporter 2001 – 2007 TV Prima, reporter, DP 2008 – present. Founder/owner of Blackfilm & Key production – video production company. We specialize in product videos, corporate videos, motion graphics, web promos, corporate videos, events, live streaming and commercials.

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• Video Editor - Commercial
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Canadian visual artist from Toronto Canada. Studied film in The Czech Republic at world renowned film school FAMU. Experience working on film sets as a sound recordist, gaffer, camera operator and camera assistant. Skills also in material fabrication (metal, wood, plastic, mould making), skateboarding, snowboarding, dance, editing and camera operation. I've worked with various companies, organizations, charity's and individuals to produce a variety of content.

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Philip Heijmans is a freelance journalist currently based in Prague writing on national and business issues as well as shooting photographs for several international news outlets, including BBC, The New York Times, Al Jazeera and The Diplomat. His prior work includes roles as business editor for Yangon-based newspaper The Myanmar Times and The Cambodia Daily in Phnom Penh, and before that as a photographer and writer for The Prague Post in the Czech Republic.

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• Video Editor - Commercial

I am cameraman, editor and graphic. Doing advertising, promo videos, reportage, videoclips and documentary. Speaking Czech, Russian, English. My dream is making documentary similar to national geographic but a little bit better. I started my carier 5 years a go as camera asistent and now I am building my own videoproduction.

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• Full-Service Live Production

I am 34 years old, freelance documentarist living in Prague. I am interested mainly in social themes. Studied at film university FAMO in the city Písek, working in film industry for 9 years.

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• Sound Mixer
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• Commercial DP
• Video Editor - News
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Video Editor - Commercial

Editor-in-chief of Czech channel Voxpot. Reporter from Central and East Europe and Middle East. Former freelancer for Czech monthly Reporter and daily Pravo, Hospodarske noviny or Alarm.

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• Fixer
• Mobile Journalist / Livestreamer
• Production Assistant

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