contributors

contributors

Matúš Kvasnička

Editor-in-chief of Film.sk and publicist. In 2003, he joined and later managed (2012 – 2019) the culture desk of nationwide daily newspaper Pravda.

Jaroslava Jelchová

Editor of Film.sk. She is a lecturer of the Film Cabinet for Children, an educational project of the Association of Slovak Film Clubs.

Mária Ferenčuhová

Editor of Film.sk. Former lecturer at the Film and Television Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts (VŠMU), where she also worked as a vice-rector (2004 – 2007). Author of the scientific monograph Odložený čas (Time Delayed), co-author and editor of two more books on film.

Eva Šošková

Eva works at the Department of Audio-visual Studies at VŠMU, focusing on animated film. She participated in the preparation of the retrospective of Czechoslovak animated films for the Filmmuseum in Vienna. Every year, she reviews the past year’s Slovak animated films on various platforms.

Martin Ciel

Film theoretician and critic. He worked at the Art Research Centre of the Slovak Academy of Sciences and at the SFI, he has been teaching at VŠMU since 1998. He focuses on film semiotics and contemporary film theories. His texts have been published in various professional journals and collections, including foreign ones. He is the author and co-author of numerous books.

Martin Šmatlák

Film critic, author of countless reviews and expert studies. He has been focusing on questions of audiovisual legislation for a long time. He was the director of the SFI (1991 – 1993) and also worked in senior management of the Slovak Television channel, the Ministry of Culture, and TV JOJ. He has been teaching at VŠMU (as professor since 2014). He has been directing the Slovak Audiovisual Fund since its establishment in 2009.

Jena Opoldusová

She was a correspondent of the Czechoslovak Television studio in Bratislava, and she made and hosted a cultural magazine on the Slovak Radio. She wrote for daily newspapers Národná obroda and Pravda, where she focused on topics related to visual art, films, and theatre.

Simona Nôtová

Film publicist. The founding chief editor of the magazine Film.sk she managed from 2000 to 2012. She now works as the press secretary of the SFI.

Miro Nôta

He photographed for multiple daily newspapers and also did photography and picture supervision of numerous books. Currently, he works as a freelancer and collaborates with monthly magazines Forbes, Film.sk, and many other periodicals. He focuses on portraits and documentary photography. He has had a few group and individual exhibitions of his works.