Bára Anna Stejskalová

Bára Anna Stejskalová

Birth : 1992-01-01,

History

Bára Anna Stejskalová is director, art director, animator, and script writer of animated films, with a specialization on stop-motion. Beginning her studies at University of Arts at Bournemouth, she transferred to Prague's FAMU. In 2018 she participated in Erasmus internship in the Production Design department at IADT in Dublin. Her bachelor's film "The Fishermen" (2017) was nominated for BAFTA Shortlist. She is a co-author of project HEARDT, which received Burning Man Honorarium Grant and was show-cased at the festival. Her graduation movie "Love Is Just a Death Away" (2020) has toured world-wide festivals. She is currently working at Art Director on VR project Darkening directed by Ondřej Moravec.

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Bára Anna Stejskalová

Movies

Love, Dad
Love, Dad
Animation
A short film about ties and gaps between a child and a parent. The author rediscovers letters her dad used to write her from prison. That love seems to be gone now. She decides to write back in hope to find the connection again. She puts in writing what could not be said: blaming him for family´s break-up but also trying to understand.
Love Is Just a Death Away
Love Is Just a Death Away
Art Designer
Sometimes life starts after death for someone. Like for a little parasite, who walks with a rotting corpse of a dead dog around an old landfill. Trapped in his unpalatable body he tries to find love and friendship.
Love Is Just a Death Away
Love Is Just a Death Away
Screenplay
Sometimes life starts after death for someone. Like for a little parasite, who walks with a rotting corpse of a dead dog around an old landfill. Trapped in his unpalatable body he tries to find love and friendship.
Love Is Just a Death Away
Love Is Just a Death Away
Story
Sometimes life starts after death for someone. Like for a little parasite, who walks with a rotting corpse of a dead dog around an old landfill. Trapped in his unpalatable body he tries to find love and friendship.
Love Is Just a Death Away
Love Is Just a Death Away
Director
Sometimes life starts after death for someone. Like for a little parasite, who walks with a rotting corpse of a dead dog around an old landfill. Trapped in his unpalatable body he tries to find love and friendship.
FAMU v kině 02
FAMU v kině 02
Director
The Fishermen
The Fishermen
Art Designer
A story about fisherman, who pulled a skeleton out of the frozen lake. He tries to escape from the skeleton, so he hides in the dark, where he looks for comfort in cheap entertaintment. Yet the reality scratches on the window and fisherman´s hiding place quickly becomes a place full of nightmares. Manipulation, humanity, puppetry - the main themes of this film.
The Fishermen
The Fishermen
Screenplay
A story about fisherman, who pulled a skeleton out of the frozen lake. He tries to escape from the skeleton, so he hides in the dark, where he looks for comfort in cheap entertaintment. Yet the reality scratches on the window and fisherman´s hiding place quickly becomes a place full of nightmares. Manipulation, humanity, puppetry - the main themes of this film.
The Fishermen
The Fishermen
Director
A story about fisherman, who pulled a skeleton out of the frozen lake. He tries to escape from the skeleton, so he hides in the dark, where he looks for comfort in cheap entertaintment. Yet the reality scratches on the window and fisherman´s hiding place quickly becomes a place full of nightmares. Manipulation, humanity, puppetry - the main themes of this film.
The Little One
The Little One
Animation
When Rong was a small child she and her parents moved from Vietnam to Prague. Now she is grown up and remembers that time and what it was like to feel like a foreigner.