MgA. Lucie Kralova, Ph.D. is acclaimed Czech film director, scriptwriter, dramaturgist and lecturer at FAMU. Her documentaries were screened at many international film festivals and received number of awards, e.g. "Ill-fated Child"(2003) and "Sold" (2005) were both awarded as Best Czech Documentary at Jihlava IDFF; documentary detective story, "Lost Holiday" (2007), distributed internationally on 35mm, received the Crystal Globe for Best Feature Doc at Karlovy Vary IFF and other prizes; Lucie also woks as dramaturgist/script consultant on significant documentaries, e.g. "Caught in the Net" (2020) by Klusák/Chalupová (the most successful Czech doc in cinemas ever) or "Alchemical Furnace" about Jan Svankmajer (2020) screened e.g. at IFF Rotterdam 2020.
Her documentary opera "Kapr Code" was premiered in Burning Lights Competition at Vision du Reel, Nyon, and was awarded as Best Music Documentary at Krakow International Film Festival. Lucie is author of the book “Understanding Television” (published in 2022), long-term ethnography based research on institutional and power mechanisms within the most important public broadcaster in Czech Republic, Czech TV.
Her documentary opera "Kapr Code" was premiered in Burning Lights Competition at Vision du Reel, Nyon, and was awarded as Best Music Documentary at Krakow International Film Festival. Lucie is author of the book “Understanding Television” (published in 2022), long-term ethnography based research on institutional and power mechanisms within the most important public broadcaster in Czech Republic, Czech TV.