Vojtěch Mašek

director Arvéd

Vojtěch Mašek

Vojtěch Mašek graduated from the Department of Scriptwriting at FAMU in Prague, where he currently works as a lecturer. Together with Jiří Soukup and Václav Kadrnka, he is the author of the script for the award-winning historical film Little Crusader (Václav Kadrnka, 2017). Last year, together with Marek Šindelka, he was awarded the Czech Lion and the Czech Film Critics Award for the best screenplay of Michal Nohejl's Occupation (in the programme of CinEast 2022). This year, he released his directorial debut Arvéd. Besides screenwriting, he is most celebrated for his graphic novels, and he is also the author of “Recykliterature” - conceptual work that creates stories by combining photographs and texts found in books and magazines.