MARTINA VACKOVÁ
Director of the Aussie Film Fest.
Founder of the “Aussie Film Fest” in Prague and Bratislava, co-producer and dramaturg of the Czech and Slovak film festival in Australia.
Through mutual festivals in Central Europe and Australia, it maintains a bridge between two continents that are linked by film. She lived in Sydney for eight years, where she worked at the public multicultural radio and television station SBS (Special Broadcasting Service) in the Czech program, as a film journalist she also collaborated with other language programs of SBS Radio (broadcasts in 76 languages). After returning to the Czech Republic, she started working at Czech Radio as an editor and was also the author of the film magazine “Filmobraní” at Rádio Česko.
As a journalist and film professional, he regularly visits leading film festivals such as Cannes, Berlinale and Karlovy Vary. She participated in many Australian festivals in Sydney, Canberra, Adelaide; she also visited Pusan, Linz, Chemnitz, Mannheim, Vienna, Graz, Bratislava, Geneva, Cottbus, Thessaloniki, etc.
In 2002, the prestigious French magazine Paris Match called her “Traveling Czech” in an interview about the Cannes Film Festival, for which she was selected from 3,910 accredited journalists as a promising young European journalist.
He is a member of FIPRESCI (International Federation of Film Critics) and the Association of Czech Film Critics.
PUBLISHED TEXTS
2016
Zabila nákladním vozem 8 lidí, film o ní otevírá sekci Berlinale
Berlinale reviews refugee topics
Zprávy z Berlinale: Češi si vyrovnávají účty se společností
Komentář: Vítězové Berlinale ukazují prstem na Evropu
Zprávy z Berlinale: Uprchlická vlna zasáhla Oheň na moři i Clooneyho
2015
Canneské extrémy
Cannes: první dojem
Linecký koláč mezi Černobylem a Drákulou
Vzpomínáme: na válku
Jeden svět z druhé strany světa