Normal Autistic Film

June 05 2017

Miroslav Janek born in 1954 in Nachod in the Czech Republic. He started making photographs from the age of ten and short films from the age of fifteen a great number of which were awarded prizes at numerous amateur film festivals. He emigrated to Germany in 1979, and then to USA in 1980 where, during the eighties and nineties worked as an editor and cameraman. He collaborated with a number of documentary filmmakers. From 1982 to 1986, he taught directing and editing at the Film School “Film in the Cities”, St. Paul, Minneapolis.

He returned to the Czech Republic in 1995 where he devoted himself to cinematography and directing documentaries. Film photographers of visually impaired children, "Unseen" ("Nespatrené") brought him numerous awards and important place on the European documentary scene. Since 1998 lecturer at FAMU (Film Academy in Prague), Department of documentary film.
 

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