Matej Mináč

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[edit] Matej Mináč

Born 1961 in Bratislava, Slovakia

Film director, producer, writer
Graduated in film directing at the Academy of
Music and Dramatic Arts in Bratislava (VŠMU)

Most significant projects:'

Nicholas Winton – The Power of Good documentary film shot in English 35mm, Dolby Digital 62 min.

Prizes: WINNER of 2002 INTERNATIONAL EMMY AWARD for outstanding documentary program, NOMINEE FOR THE 2006 NEWS AND DOCUMENTARY EMMY AWARD representing HBO/CINEMAX, 2006 Christopher AWARD – New York for film that affirms the highest values of the human spirit, “Special Mention” at the 19th Troia Int´l Film Festival (Portugal, TRILOBIT Prize (Czech Republic), Slovak Film Critic’s Prize, Prize IGRIC (Slovak Republic), 2005 Pacific Jewish Film Festival Spirit Award, Grand Prix - Nine Gates Film Festival (Czech Republic), First Award – Warsaw Jewish Film Festival (Poland), Audience Awards - Washington Jewish Film Festival, Miami Jewish Film Festival

Most important film festivals: Closing night gala film of the Palm Springs Int´l Film Festival, USA, Official documentary competition Karlovy Vary Int´l Film Festival, Vancouver Film Festival (the 12th most popular film of the festival rated by the audience), Haifa Film Festival, Leipzig Film Festival for Documentary, Barbican Film Season, San Diego Jewish Film Festival, Phoenix Jewish Film Festival, Palm Beach Jewish Film Festival, closing film of Toronto Jewish Film Festival, Brighton Jewish Film Festival Vancouver Jewish Film Festival, Cleveland Int´l Film Festival. Festival The film was also chosen for the opening program of the world’s largest digital film network CinemaNet Europe as one of its highlights in November 2004.

All My Loved Ones feature film Czech/Polish/Slovak/German cooproduction,supported by EUROIMAGES.

The film tells the true story of a Czech Jewish family of whom only the ten-year-old son survives the holocaust thanks to the Winton rescue mission. British actor Rupert Graves plays the part of Winton. The film was screened on more than sixty film festivals and won twelve international prizes. The film is currently in DVD and video distribution in the USA. Coproducer and European distributor of the film is Beta Film (München).

PRIZES: Slovak Republic nomination for the Academy Award Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences, for the best foreign film, OSCAR; XVI; Troia International Film Festival – Portugal – Jury Prize; Grand Prix - International Film Festival Sedona(USA); Annual Czech Film Prize (Czech Lion) for Jiri Bartoska for the best supporting actor (Czech Rep.), Award of the Slovak Television Union and the Literary Fund Igric 2000 for best editing and photography (Slovakia)

ADIENCE AWARDS (Best Feature): Nortel International Palm Springs Film festival – USA (was rated by the audience as the second best film of the 180 films in the competition), Finale Plzen – Czech Republic, Washington Jewish Film Festival,Sao Paulo Jewish Film Festival, Festivals of Festivals - Palm Springs, Würzburg Film Festival (Germany, 2002), Atlanta Jewish Film Festival (2002).

Four Angry Men (Čtyři rozhněvaní muži) – feature film (Critic‘s Prize at Trutnov Festival of Comedy) I’m Shooting from up on a Branch and I feel Great - film documentary about film director Juraj Jakubisko with Frederico Fellini and Giulietta Massina numerous film portraits of notable Czechs for the series GEN and GENUS for Czech Television; Tomáš Bata, Adolf Born, Emil Zátopek, Jan Svoboda, Břetislav Pojar, Miroslav Holub; documentaries, large-screen audio visual programmes and short action films: Casanova, An Ambiguous Trip to the End of the World (Nejasná cesta na konec světa), Trails (Stopy) (awarded the Red Cross Prize in Varna), A Slovak Day in Paris (shot in French) a five-part TV series The Magic of Photography about the foremost Czech photographers; (Jan Saudek, Karol Kallay and others) produced by KODAK and by Slovak Television. directed the Riddles (Hádanky) a visual part of the National Theater‘s Laterna Magica multi-media ballet performance artistic documentaries and music films: I was born a Prague Jew, The reconstruction of the family Album (with Jiří Menzel), Hebrew Meditation