CV and FILMOGRAPHY
Pavel Jandourek
SCRIPTWRITER AND DIRECTOR
Text for Encyclopedia of Documentary Directors – author Martin Štoll
He graduated from Brno University of Technology and became the director of the university's audiovisual centre and at the same time he was a camera assistant in ČST. He began his distance learning at KDT FAMU (Department of the Documentary Film of FAMU in Prague). After graduation (1991) he became a freelance scriptwriter and film director. In addition to documentaries, he has worked in a wide range of audiovisual productions. Later, he focused mainly on feature and TV films, moving from his first attempt to create a story about Eskimo Welzl (Bear Eater (1996) to fairy tales (The Kingdom of Streams, 2005; About a Chimney Sweep's Apprentice and a Confectioner's Daughter, 2007) and comedies (Komediograf, 2003; Kája a Zabi, 2007), his strength being mysterious stories (Gate of angels from the series The Guardian of Souls, 2004); so far, he achieved the greatest success with a distribution film MAHARAL (2007) and its series version. Another successful production is a fascinating story of a bon vivant and the first owner of the animation studio in Brno, Otakar Berthen-Brožek The Big Movie (2008, 2× 70 min.). His most recent director's productions are the series for teenagers 4teens (2011)and TV film Go Astray (2012).
Despite the variety of genres, his scripts always remain fresh, many films were shot using modern narrative techniques; Pavel is good at finding his own original topics; however, when he is asked to execute the assignments of the television and production companies, the delivered quality is equally excellent
FILMOGRAPHY:
FEATURE FILMS (video links on the page Hraná tvorba)
Maharal (2007 – 12 awards from international and local festivals for children and the youth - Youth Film Festival 2008, Belgium – main jury award+audience award, Minsk 2007, Belarus – Grand Prix, Schlingel 2007, Germany – audience award, Carrousel 2007, Canada – audience award, Zlín 2007, CR – audience award, etc.)– a family adventurous film-
Sejít z cesty (Go Astray) - (2012)– a road movie, a rock drive from Olomouc to Prague
Dům u zlatého úsvitu (The House at the Golden Dawn) - (2009 – 2 awards from fest. Ostrov nad Ohří) – a poetic fairy tale grotesque
O kominickém učni a dceři cukráře (About a Chimney Sweep's Apprentice and a Confectioner's Daughter) - (2007,r – award of fest. Ota Hofman's jury) – a Christmas period fairy tale
Velkofilm (The Big Movie) - (2008 - 2 episodes)– a comedy story about a man who did not shoot the first Czech animated megafilm
Komediograf (2003 ) – series of sketches, scenes and songs of Hadivadlo
Kája a Zabi (2008– award for child actors fest. Ostrov nad Ohří) – a children comedy
Království potoků (The Kingdom of Streams) – (2005– award of children jury fest. Ostrov nad Ohří) – a fairy tale
Požírač medvědů (Bear Eater) - 1996 – the life of Jan Eskimo Welzl
SERIES:
Dobru, pravdě, kráse (Good – True - Beautiful) - (2017) – staged chronicles of of Theater in Vinohrady, 6 episodes
4teens (2011) – a year at the grammar school
Strážce duší (The Guardian of Souls) - (3 episodes – 2006,2010)
DOCUMENTARY FILMS
(more and video links on the pages Dokumenty + Hudba)
Vznik a pád království ševců (Rise and Fall of the Cobblers' Kingdom) - (2004) – a documentary reconstruction based on the novel of the same name by Miroslav Ivanov about the history of the Baťa's miracle in Zlín and abroad
Existenciální blues J.Kainara (Existential Blues by J.Kainar) - (1996-award of the Mayor AFO 97) – a biography of the Czech poet
Hudba a moc (Music
and Power) - (2019)
A MEMBER OF INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL JURIES:
A-fest Gjirokastra (2016, Albania)
Juniorfest (2014, Czech republic)
Zlín (2013, Czech republic)
Horský film Poprad (2003, Slovak republic).