Helena Trestikova

Helena Trestikova
Masterclasses
Visiting Lecturer (2019)

Helena Trestikova is a film director from Czech Republic.

From 1974, she works in professional production, having made over fifty documentary films of varying footage mostly on the themes of human relationships and various social problems (Romeo, Juliet and Children/Romeo, Julie a děti; The Miracle; Two Anniversaries of Jan Zrzavý; Helpline, Touch of Light, Thousand Years of Sobriety).

In the course of time, she specialized in the time-lapse method, following people’s life stories on long-term basis. For a period of six years, her first series of time-lapse films followed the everyday lives of several young married couples from the moment of their wedding. The film crew visited them regularly, recording their troubles, dreams, efforts, in several cases also crises, divorce, reconciliation.

For her film René, she was awarded by the European Film Academy (EFA) the Prix Arte 2008 in the category of the documentary.

In 2007, she was for a brief time culture minister of the Czech Republic.

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