Tereza Nvotová (1988, Trnava, Czechoslovakia) graduated in direction from film academy FAMU in Prague. Her sophomore feature, NIGHTSIREN (Svetlonoc, 2022), premiered in Locarno Film Festival – Cineasti del presente, where it won Golden Leopard for the Best Film. Following, in Sitges FF the film won the Silver Melies for the Best European Production. The film traveled more than 40 international film festivals where Tereza received multiple Best Directing awards. It has been sold for distribution to US, Germany, Japan, Poland, South Korea, Portugal, UK and other.
Her feature debut FILTHY (Špina, 2017), which was Tereza’s graduation film, has been screened in major festivals around the world including Rotterdam, Karlovy Vary, Cairo, and Santa Barbara. During its distribution FILTHY took home more than 20 awards, including the Czech Film Critics Award for the Best Film of the year.
Tereza collaborated with various broadcasting companies, most notably HBO who has co-produced her feature debut and two documentary films. Her latest HBO documentary THE LUST FOR POWER (Mečiar, 2017) has been shortlisted for the European Film Academy Awards 2018. It was critically acclaimed and has caused heated debate about populism and corruption in politics.
Tereza is teaching students of direction at Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (FAMU).
She is an alumnus of Berlinale Talents, Frontieres Forum, MIDPOINT and ScripTeast development initiatives. She has also acted, appearing as a lead in four feature films.
She is currently working on her third feature FATHER (SK,CZ,PL) and HBO documentary UNSOUNDNESS OF MIND.
Tereza is also attached to direct a feature in the USA.
She is represented by United Talent Agency and Black Bear Pictures.
Tereza lives between Prague and New York.
AWARDS:
Pardo D’Oro (Golden Leopard) for Best Film in Cineasti del presente, 75th Locarno Film Festival 2022, Switzerland
Silver Meliés for Best European Fantastic Feature, The Sitges -International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia 2022, Spain
Best Directing award – Rising Sun International Film Festival, 2023 Japan
Best Directing award – Sognielettrici | Electricdreams International Film Festival, 2023, Italy
Slovak Ministry of Culture Award for outstanding contribution in the field of audiovisual art, 2023
Special Mention for Best Direction, The Sitges -International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia 2022, Spain
Best Sceenplay Award, Cuenca International Film Festival 2022, Ecuador
Grand Jury Prize for Best Picture, Riviera International Film Festival 2018, Sestri Levante, Italy
Meeting Point Best Feature Award – 62nd Semana International de Cine, Valladolid, Spain
Best Film – Czech Critics’ Awards 2017, Czech Republic
Audience Award, Riviera International Film Festival 2018, Sestri Levante, Italy
Golden Lynx for Best Fiction Feature Film – FEST – New Directors New Films 2017, Espinho, Portugal
Innogy Award for the Discovery of the Year – Czech Critics’ Awards 2017, Czech Republic
The Best Fiction Feature Film – 14th Neisse Film Festival, Germany
Public Prize Ex Aequo, Festival A l’Est du Nouveau 2018, France
Film Critique Prize, Festival A l’Est du Nouveau 2018, France
Youth Jury Award, Festival A l’Est du Nouveau 2018, France
Wiesbaden Youth Film Competition Award for young talent – Exground Film Festival 30, Wiesbaden, Germany
Audience Award – Exground Film Festival 30, Wiesbaden, Germany
Audience Award JOJ Cinema for Best European Film – 25th Art Film Fest, Košice, Slovakia
AFCA Award for the Best Feature Film – Czech and Slovak Film Festival 2017, Australia
Best Fiction Film – Famufest 2017, Prague, Czech Republic
Award of the Tatra banka Foundation for Art – Young Talent in the category Film and TV, Slovakia
Main prize of 31st audiovisual Trilobite Awards organized by the Czech Film and Television Association