Viktória Dzurenková

Czech Republic

Viktória Dzurenková

director, producer

Viktorie Dzurenková was born in 1982 in Zvoleno. In 2005 she graduated from the Department of Esthetics and Art Education at the Faculty of Arts and Pedagogy at the Konštatntín Filozof University. The topic of her diploma thesis titled “More real than reality” was phenomenon of TV, its history up to the present, unique format of reality shows and difference between Czech and foreign reality shows. In 2005 she also finished her studies in film science at the Film and TV faculty of Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava. Between 2005 and 2007 she studied feature film directing at the Film and TV faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava. In 2008 she started her studies at the Directing Department of Faculty of Performing Arts in Prague (FAMU).

FILMOGRAPHY
films:
Romance – an ironic story of a girl who gets lost in her own romantic novel(2008)
Painting – love triangle between elderly lady who works as a painter and young married man (2009)
Merry Christmas – tragicomic story about illusion of Christmas happiness, love and peace (2009)
Wedding Dress – screenplay for a short feature film on the Crossing Boundaries topic, awarded International Goethe Institute grant award (2009)
First Night – short film on „coming out“ of woman in her forties (2009)
Eva‘s Music – grotesque love triangle, a film about naive desire and disillusion that follows after it had been fulfilled (2009)
Daughters of Stalinism – documentary, a part about Margita Zimanová, a daughter of Slovak political prisoner executed in 50s (2010)
awards:
Goethe Institut international grant award for short feature film Wedding Dress