Julietta Sichel is a former long-term Program Director of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, film theorist, historian and journalist, producer and founder of the production company 8Heads Productions. She studied German and English language and American literature at the University of Salzburg, Austria, and film history and theory at the Philosophy Faculty of the Charles University, Prague. In 1995 Julietta Sichel joined the programming team of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. From 2005 till 2010 she was the Festival’s Program Director, representing the Karlovy Vary IFF at numerous festivals all around the world. In 2010, she founded production company 8Heads Productions.
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