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Radim Procházka
Born	(1975-01-22) January 22, 1975 Vyškov
Citizenship	Czech Republic
Alma mater	FAMU
Occupation(s)	film producer and director, professor

Radim Procházka (22 January 1975, Vyškov) is a Czech film producer, scriptwriter, director and mentor at FAMU in Prague.

Life

Procházka was born in Vyškov, small town near Brno in the Eastern part of Czech Republic. He graduated in massmedia communication at Faculty of Social Science at Charles University Prague, later in 2006 finished his MGA on documentary filmmaking at prestigious school FAMU. His graduate film is a portrayal of a theatre director Otomar Krejča called Krejča za branou.

Work

Film producer

Radim Prochazka is known as a documentary filmmaker, as well as a documentary film producer and consultant. His production work was connected closely to the work of his tutor Karel Vachek. He produced all his three feature documentary films since 2006: Záviš, the Prince of Pornofolk (2006), Obscurantist and His Lineage or The Pyramids' Tearful Valleys (2011) and Communism and the Net (2020).

As a producer, he is responsible for over 20 feature films, half documentary, half fiction (specially early works of Robert Sedláček). For many of these productions Prochazka has received Czech and international awards. He focuses on international co-productions and films by debut-making directors. For almost 20 years, he worked with a filmmaker of the Czechoslovak New Wave, Karel Vachek, whose last opus magnum, Communism and the Net premiered at the IFF Rotterdam in January 2020. In 2022, Prochazka's films premiered at big festivals such as Sheffield DocFest, Karlovy Vary IFF, and Jihlava IDFF. In 2019, he founded a new company, Kuli Film, as a professional background for his mostly arthouse animated, documentary, and feature films. In 2024, he released a puppet short by Jan Cechl, Lawrence of Moravia, in a Czech-Portuguese co-production and a live action short by Lukáš Masner, The Price of a Story (Cena příběhu), the first Czech-Greenlandic co-production for which Icelandic composer Kjartan Holm composed the music.

Film director

His latest directorial effort, the experimental site-specific film collage SANITATION, was created for the super-wide screen of the Prague Center for Architecture and Urban Planning, where it premiered in February 2022. He collaborated on it with editor Jan Daňhel and composer Michal Rataj. With Robin Kvapil, Procházka co-directed the film YES, WE CAN, which opened the MFDF Jihlava 2018. It captures the presidential election campaign of Michal Horáček from the point of view of the candidate adviser.

Other work

In 2021, he defended his dissertation, for which he gained his PhD, with a piece entitled Festival work as a reference of the quality of Czech films: autoethnography of a producer in the filmmaking field. He is a member of the European Film Academy and ACE Producer 20/21. Since 2012, he has been a mentor in directing courses at the international department of Prague's film school FAMU. Prochazka also publishes articles and books about documentary films, including online revue on docs, DokRevue.

Filmography

Director

• 2005 – Krejča za branou (57 min.)
• 2007 – Papírový atentát (52 min.)
• 2009 – Náš první hospodář (9 min.)
• 2010 – Drnovické catenaccio aneb Cesta do pravěku ekonomické transformace (57 min.)
• 2012 – Pupek nebe (52 min.)
• 2014 – Čí je moje dítě (52 min., with Marek Duda)
• 2015 – 50% (26 min.)
• 2018 – Máme na víc (73 min., with Robin Kvapil)
• 2022 – Asanace (12 min.)

Producer

• 2006 – Záviš, the Prince of Pornofolk Under the Influence of Griffith's Intolerance and Tati's Monsieur Hulot's Holiday or the Establition and Doom of Czechoslovakia 1918-1992 (Záviš, kníže pornofolku pod vlivem Griffithovy Intolerance a Tatiho Prázdnin pana Hulota aneb Vznik a zánik Československa (1918–1992) (147 min., Karel Vachek)
• 2006 – Pravidla lži (119 min., Robert Sedláček)
• 2009 – V hlavní roli Gustáv Husák (118 min., Robert Sedláček)
• 2010 – Největší z Čechů (95 min., Robert Sedláček)
• 2011 – Rodina je základ státu (103 min., Robert Sedláček)
• 2011 – Tmář a jeho rod aneb Slzavé údolí pyramid (199 min., Karel Vachek)
• 2012 – Křehká identita (70 min., Zuzana Piussi)
• 2013 – Wolf (61 min., Claudio Giovannesi)
• 2014 – Schmitke (94 min., Štěpán Altrichter)
• 2014 – Čí je moje dítě (52 min., Marek Duda, Radim Procházka)
• 2015 – Koudelka fotografuje Svatou zemi (72 min., Gilad Baram)
• 2015 – Prach (95 min., Vít Zapletal)
• 2016 – Jmenuji se Hladový Bizon (83 min., Pavel Jurda)
• 2016 – Slepý Gulliver (společně s Klárou Žloudkovou) (108 min., Martin Ryšavý)
• 2017 – Vánoční svatba sněhuláka Karla (12 min, Petr Vodička) 
• 2017 – Planeta Česko (83 min, Marián Polák)
• 2018 – Máme na víc (73 min, Robin Kvapil, Radim Procházka)
• 2018 – Neklidná hranice (88 min, Dāvis Sīmanis)
• 2019 – První akční hrdina (30 min, Jan Haluza)
• 2019 – Komunismus a síť aneb Konec zastupitelské demokracie (335 min, Karel Vachek)
• 2020 – Terezínské stíny (14 min, Miloš Zvěřina)
• 2021 – Rok před válkou (116 min, Dāvis Sīmanis)
• 2022 – á-B-C-D-é-F-G-H-CH-í-JONESTOWN (a-B-C-D-e-F-G-H-i-JONESTOWN), producer, fiction feature, dir. Jan Bušta
• 2022 – Planeta Praha (Wild Prague), producer, feature documentary, dir. Jan Hošek
• 2022 – Barcarole (producer, fiction short, dir. Igor Chmela)
• 2022 – Pongo Calling, producer, feature documentary, dir. Tomáš Kratochvíl
• 2022 – Gregor Mendel a tajemství hrášku (Gregor Mendel and the Secret of Peas), producer, animation short, dir. David Súkup
• 2022 – Asanace (Sanitation), producer/director, site-specific documentary short
• 2024 – Lawrence of Moravia (Lawrence z Morávie), puppet short, dir. Jan Cechl
• 2024 – Cena příběhu (The Prize of a Story), live action short, dir. Lukáš Masner

External links

Other

• Website of Radim Prochazka Production