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Director and producer: Tomáš Vynikal

Tomáš Vynikal started filming at the turn of primary and secondary school. In 2005 and 2006 he was a personal student of photographer Tomáš Vážan. In the autumn of 2006, he met producer Norbert Theo Auerbach in person at the Academia Film Olomouc festival, who helped him with advice on the production of the documentary - A Hospital at World's End (2008), directed by Otakar Štěrba. This film was selected among the 41 best mountain films at the 2009 Trento Film Festival in Italy.

In September 2008, Tomáš was accepted as a cameraman and reporter for Aktuálně.cz. Tomáš joined the Audiovisual Arts Studio at Tomáš Baťa University in Zlín (2009), where he collaborated with cameraman Juraj Fándli and photographer Pavel Dias.

Since 2010, Tomáš has been preparing a documentary film debut called Friends of the Ghetto. This is a 10 year time-span collection of issues concerning Přerov city's Škodova Street ghetto.

Tomáš also deals with nature protection. Before its abolition of 2003, he saved the natural monument Tučapská skalka. He also pushed for the declaration of a site of European importance, Deylův ostrůvek (announced in 2012).

Film awards - A Hospital at World's End (2008): Special award for Film Interpretation of Outstanding Humanitarian Project (International Festival of Outdoor Films 2008), Honorable Mention (International Film Festival TUR Ostrava 2009), Prize of the Town Teplice nad Metují (The International Mountaineering Film Festival in Teplice nad Metuji 2010).

Filmmakers

CINEMATOGRAPHY: Tomáš Vynikal, Šimon Papoušek, Robin Závodný, Zdeněk Eichler,

Ondřej Klus, Martin Dvořáček and Milan Cyroň

ADDITIONAL CAMERA: Jonáš Vacek

SOUND DESIGN, MIX and MUSIC: Tomáš Vynikal and Jiří Grúz

BOOM OPERATORS: Jiří Piňos, Josef Kaštil, Robin Závodný, Šimon Papoušek, Zdeněk Eichler, Roman Nepšinský, Jan Princ and Pavel Tóth

TRANSLATION: Michael Stuart Esson

TEXT CORRECTION: Radek Malý

CREATIVE ADVISORS: Tomáš Binter, Boris Masník, Juraj Fándli, Ján Grečnár, Ľudovít Labík, Iveta Malachovská, Martin Jůza, Andy Fehu, Milan Cyroň, David Lorenz, Jonáš Vacek, Mária Môťovská, Jiří Stejskal and Martin Dvořáček

SCRIPT EDITOR: Zuzana Pracná

COLOUR CORRECTION: Robin Závodný and Tomáš Vynikal 

SCREENWRITER, EDITOR, PRODUCER and DIRECTOR: Tomáš Vynikal

1 hour 19 min., Czech Republic

documentary film / colour / czech / english subtitles / stereo / DCP