SLOVAK POP UP

The Slovak Pop Up programme offers Slovak filmmakers with film projects in the stage of development the opportunity to benefit from the presence of the Pop Up Film Residents and their mentors. The Slovak Pop Up takes place in Bratislava and is financially supported by Slovak Audiovisual Fund.

The program is open to feature-length and short films alike, regardless of whether they are fiction, documentary or animation.

The 2024 edition of Slovak Pop Up is happening in August!

Viktória Rampal Dzurenko

Director

Viktória Rampal Dzurenko is a film director, artist and film-making teacher. She studied at FTF VŠMU in Bratislava and FAMU in Prague. The Little Cancer is her first feature film.

Biba Bohinská

Co-writer

Biba Bohinská is a scriptwriter, script editor and creative producer. She has worked on many documentary and feature films.

Project: THE LITTLE CANCER

Logline:

Thirty-year-old Bony would very much like to find love, but after a series of cruel rejections, it seems that his only faithful life partner will remain a bipolar disorder and his father who loves Bony, but feels ashamed of him at the same time.

Marek Moučka

Director, writer

Marek Moucka finished his Master‘s degree in Documentary filmmaking at the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava. His short documentary IN SHALLOW WATER was screened at DOK Leipzig Film Festival. His last short documentary ATTENTION ALL PASSENGERS was screened at more than 20 festivals and won Special Jury Mention at Ethocineca Vienna. Currently he is working on his debut GLORIOUS UTOPIA.

Project: GLORIOUS UTOPIA

Logline:

Glorious Utopia is a documentary essay that observes the citizens and kings of unofficial micro-state Elgeland-Vargaland, established in 1992. While visiting their physical and mental territories, the protagonists are confronted with the director’s act of establishing his own state bounded by 16mm film stock.

György Kristóf

Director & co-writer

György’s debut film, OUT, was selected for Un Certain Regard at Cannes. He completed the dance sci-fi ZENITH and is now working on his third feature with Veronika Gregušová.

Veronika Gregušová

Co-writer

Veronika has written a TV series and works as a script editor in drama, developing new TV formats.

Project: I WILL FIND YOU

Logline:

A mother’ s journey to find her surrogate child in a war-torn country is a test of her strength, determination, and love.

Dorota Vlnová

Director

Dorota Vlnová is a graduate of documentary filmmaking at the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava. She has directed the film After Us the Flood, a film about the architect Ferdinand Milučký from the ICONS series, the World in Slovakia series and others. Makes radio documentaries for Slovak Radio and has worked in the video section of the SME newspaper.

The film Inside is produced by Roman Pivovarník from HITCHHIKER Cinema.

Project: INSIDE

Logline:

What if society creates the trauma, not the event itself?