Barbara is a graduate of Film Studies at the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava. In 2012 she founded HITCHHIKER Cinema, producing original films focusing on critical social and cultural issues. In 2018 she won the Slovak national film award for her film A Hole in the Head (dir. R. Kirchhoff). She collaborated with an emerging documentary filmmakers on their debuts The Golden Land D. Jursa, The Commune by J. Julény and Lines by B. Sliepková, which won the Best Documentary Award at the Ji.hlava IDFF 2021. Barbara is currently teaching at the Department of the Documentary Filmmaking.
Slovakia