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Never work with idiots and the importance of doing it good

The story of the production company Admiral Films and its current projects. The lecture includes a presentation about the current situation in the creative/film industry and how one can survive in it these days. It also gives behind the scenes impressions from the production of films and music videos. Bonus: free movie screening

Andrej Kolencík
Nicknamed Admiral (* 3.8.1984 in Bratislava) is a film director and a visual artist. He studied graphic design at School of Applied Arts and graduated from Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava in field of animation. He studied also at RITS in Brussels during his Erasmus studies and made intership at Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava. Currently he’s working as a freelance film director of fiction, documentary and also animation films, music videos and commercials. As a visual artist he deals with illustration. Besides of that, he is also co-founder of the international animation festival Fest Anca, for which he was working as a program director for 6 years. Films that he was working on were presented at many international film festivals and won some awards, among them for example Golden Egg at festival of Emir Kusturica. In 2014 he was selected for Berlinale Talents. In 2015 he started his own production company called Admiral Films. www.kolencik.org