Johana Ožvold
film director, screenwriter and actress
Johana Ožvold is a film director, screenwriter, and actress. She is a doctoral student at FAMU. Her feature-length documentary essay The Sound Is Innocent had its world premiere at Switzerland's Visions du Réel in 2019.
In collaboration with production company Bionaut, she is developing the fiction film 36 m² based on the book O Pavlovi, and with Nyasa Film she is shooting two time-lapse documentary films from the Czech fine art scene. She has directed numerous radio plays and podcasts for Czech Radio; her latest work is the series Případ Holečkovi for ČRo Vltava. In autumn 2025, the performance Rukojmí premiered at Palác Akropolis, created in a directing duo with Miřenka Čechová as part of the Invisible IV series.
She previously performed with the Hradec Králové ensemble Divadlo Dno and was a member of the band Kazety.