Producers on the Move 2020

Biography

Mikulás Novotný co-founded Background Films in 2012, debuting as a producer with Tomasz Mielnik's spiritual comedy Journey to Rome which premiered in Karlovy Vary in 2015. He has since produced Czech New Wave legend Karel Vachek's six-hour film essay Communism And The Net Or The End Of Representative Democracy. Mikulás will co-produce Jan P. Matuszynski's Leave No Traces and is also developing Mielnik's next feature, the comedy Gregorius, The Chosen One.

selected films

Gregorius, The Chosen One (Vyvolený)
in development
by Tomasz Mielnik
Czech Republic

Leave No Traces (Zeby nie bylo sladów)
in production
by Jan P. Matuszynski
Poland, Czech Republic

Communism and the Net or the End of Representative Democracy
(Komunismus a sít aneb Konec zastupitelské demokracie) 2019
by Karel Vachek
Czech Republic, Slovak Republic
trailer

Journey to Rome (Cesta do Ríma) 2015
by Tomasz Mielnik
Czech Republic, Poland
trailer