Andrea Slováková

Andrea Slováková is a documentary filmmaker, curator, educator, and publisher. She was the first female dean in FAMU's history (2020–2024). She is closely connected to IDFF Ji.hlava, where she spent 9 years (2003–2011) in management and continues to serve as dramaturg of experimental documentaries and new formats. She directed the AMU Press (2012–2015) and founded the Nová beseda publishing house in 2015.

She authored What's New in Film Studies (2017), the poetry collection Vně (2018), the book on film avant-garde history Filmové fascinace (2024), and co-edited (with Peter Kerekes) How Documentaries Are Made (2022). She directed a portrait of mathematician Petr Vopěnka (2006), a film about clouds Oblaka (2007), an essay on surveillance mechanisms Nadohled (2011), and the philosophical experiment Five Hundred Plateaus. Her works have been shown at numerous international festivals.

She studied media studies and film science at Charles University in Prague, documentary filmmaking at FAMU, and strategic management at British Business School. She has long been dedicated to teaching the history, theories, and methods of documentary and experimental film at Czech universities.