FAMO celebrated 25.anniversary of ERASMUS

10. and 11.5.2012 FAMO celebrated the 25.anniversary of the EU program of student exchanges Erasmus. Besides presentation meeting and informations about this program and his history at FAMO there were also FAMO students awarded for best photographs from their Erasmus exchanges.

Application for academic year 2012/2013 is open now!

If you like to apply for our study programs, just fill our online application form and submit it till 31.5.2012. We are looking forward to welcome you as our fellow student from this October.

FAMO students awarded at 11. International Student Film Festival Písek 2011

6.-9.10. Písek hosted the 11. International Student Film Festival Písek 2011, where FAMO students were extremely succesful. Our students Jan Vejnar, Jiří Sádek and Katarína Dedičová won five awards for their school movies. Jan Vejnar with his wonderful "Automatic for the People" won the Grand Prix and it is another triumph for him from another international competition. Congratulations to all!

The application period prolongated till the end of June!

The application deadline is near!

The 30.5.2011 is the date you can apply for the autumn semester 2011/2012 at FAMO. We are looking forward to welcome you as our new fellows in October!

Czech Lion for chief of Film edit department

Alois Fišárek, the Head of FAMO film edit department was awarded with prestigeous Czech film award called „Czech Lion“ which was held in the beginning of March 2011 in Prague. Mr. Fišárek, long-time collaborator of director Jan Svěrák and editor of Academy award winner, the movie „Kolja“, was awarded for his editing of the new Svěrák´s movie, original family movie „Kuky se vrací“.

Antonio Riestra was awarded for Best Cinematography

One of our longtime special IFS tutor, the Mexican cinematographer Antonio Riestra, was awarded just a few weeks ago with one of the most prestigeous European film award, Spanish  award Goya. He was awarded for the Best cinematography of the highly acclaimed Spanish/Catalan drama called "Pa Negre" by director Augustí Villaronga.

„Automatic for the People“ on the representative DVD with Best Czech Short Films Jan Vejnar and his movie „Automatic for the People“ was embedded in the menu of DVD Czech Short Films, released by Czech Film Centre. The representative DVD with choice of 15 short films, chosen by jury of film specialists, will be offered to more than 50 international film festivals and to film proffesionals over the world.

Our students collaborates with Czech Television Three students of FAMO, Martin Kopp, Jan Chramosta and Vojtěch Moravec, shot for Czech Television TV adaptations of three detective tales, written by famous Czech classic writer Karel Capek. It is the unique opportunity, given by big broadcasting company to young filmmakers.