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Irena Hejdová
Irena Hejdová was born in 1977 in Prague, Czech Republic where she grew up. In 1998, after graduating Faculty of Humanities at Prague Charles University she started studying scriptwriting and dramaturgy at Prague Academy of Performing Arts (FAMU). Irena graduated with masters degree in 2005. During her studies she won several prizes for her school scripts.
After the studies she won the Sazka award, the main Czech prize for non-realized scripts, with her final school script Deti noci (Night Owls). Deti noci was shoot by Negativ film production and Michaela Pavlatová as a director. The film premiered in 2008. On world premiere in the main competition of IFF Karlovy Vary it won two best acting awards. In autumn 2008 the film came to Czech distribution, was screened on several festivals, in Pusan, Cottbus or in Zittau where it won the main prize. Bachelor degree school script Nohama nahoru (Upside Down) won the prize RWE and Barrandov Studio award, but wasn´t realized yet.
After graduating Irena started to work as a film journalist and film critic – from 2005 to 2008 she worked in online news Aktualne.cz, in 2009 she worked in newspaper Hospodářské noviny, in october 2009 she is starting to work in Týden magazine. She is still working on either her own scripts or as a dramaturgist on others, for example the Czech film debut Zoufalci (Dreamers) by director Jitka Rudolfova, which will be premiered on autumn 2009.
