Viliam Poltikovič (born in 1958) is a director of documentaries devoted to spiritual, philosophical, psychological, sociological, ethnographic, aesthetic issues and music. He finished his studies at the Prague Film and Television Faculty (FAMU) in 1984 and since then he has produced more than 120 documentaries both for cinema and TV. Up till now his films have been awarded at Czech Republic and at international film festivals and have been praised by film critics. His films have been selected for festivals in Cannes, Moscow, Karlovy Vary, Amsterodam, Paris, Berlin, Bratislava, Göttingen, Barcelona, Vienna, Belgrade, Prague and others. He is free lancer and mostly he works for public Czech Television. He works also as a writer, photographer and cinematographer. He lives at very small village near Prague.