Eva Zaoralová has connected the festival with more than a quarter of a century of her life. In 1994, when the foundation was established to organize the 29th year, it became its head. Together with President Jiří Bartoška and other colleagues, he has been raised over the years to the most important event of its kind in Central and Eastern Europe.
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The British newspaper The Guardian even ranked it among the six best festivals in Europe, in which Zaoralová, with her infallible instinct for choosing quality films, had a lion’s share. And even though in 2011 she decided to hand over the scepter of artistic director Karel Och, she continued to work at the festival as his artistic advisor.
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Zaoralová studied Czech, French and Italian at Charles University and initially worked as an interpreter. She went to screenings at the Prague Film Club and the seventh muse failed there forever. She wrote, translated, and went to festivals as the situation allowed. Since the late 1960s, she has been the editor of Film a doba magazine, and for several years she has also been its editor-in-chief.
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Her work and personality have been awarded several times – in 2007 the director of the Cannes Film Festival, Giles Jacob, presented her with a plaque with a Cannes palm tree intended for the most important journalists, and President Václav Klaus awarded her the Medal of Merit II. degree and in 2012 she became the holder of the French Order of the Order of Arts and Literature.
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