Olga Malířová Špátová

Was born on 6 March 1984 in Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]. She is a director, cinematographer, and writer, known for Eye Over Prague (2010), I Go Where I Want (2007) and The Greatest Wish 3 (2012).

Olga Malířová Špátová is the daughter of renowned documentary ﬁlmmakers Olga Sommerová and Jan Špáta. Although she unsuccessfully applied three times to the Directing Program at FAMU (the Film Academy in Prague), she became her mother’s cinematographer and began working on her own documentaries for Czech Television, focusing on relationships and the lives of esteemed artists. Her ﬁlmmaking method, style, and worldview continue the legacy of her parents’ work. She has received around forty awards at domestic and international festivals for her ﬁlms. She made a ﬁlm about her relationship with her mother titled Un(censored) Conversations. Her feature documentary Far Beyond the Sun, about a doctor, Aleš Bárta, healing people in a poor Kenyan village, was produced by HBO and nominated for a Czech Lion Award. In 2020, her feature ﬁlm about a singer Karel Gott becomes in cinemas the second most-watched documentary in Czech history, with nearly 400,000 viewers.

Filmography:

2024 Django / feature documentary

2020 Karel / feature documentary

Pavel Černoch – Enfant terrible? / TV documentary

2019 Once a Scout, Always a Scout / TV documentary

2017 Parents Forever / TV docu series

2015 Far Beyond the Sun / feature documentary

2013 Light After Dark / TV documentary

2012 The Greatest Wish III / feature documentary

2010 Eye Over Prague / feature documentary

2009 Phenomenon Gott / feature documentary

2007 A Walk Worthwhile ‘07 / TV documentary

Radůza – I’ll Go Wherever I Want / TV documentary

2005 Uncensored Dialogues / short documentary

Love Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow / TV documentary

2004 Triple Play / short documentary

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