# Radim Procházka

Radim Procházka (born 22 January 1975) is a Czech film producer, scriptwriter, director and mentor at Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague.

## Life

Procházka was born in Vyškov, Czechoslovakia. He graduated in massmedia communication at Faculty of Social Science at Charles University Prague, in 2006 finished his MGA in documentary filmmaking at prestigious Documentary Department at Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts (FAMU), Prague. His graduate film called Krejča za branou portrays a theatre director Otomar Krejča.

## Work

Prochazka is known as a documentary filmmaker, as well as a documentary film producer and consultant.

### Film producer

For almost 20 years, he worked with a filmmaker of the Czechoslovak New Wave, film director and auteur Karel Vachek, whose last opus magnum, Communism and the Net premiered at the IFF Rotterdam in January 2020. He produced all his three feature documentary films since 2006: Záviš, the Prince of Pornofolk (2006), Obscurantist and His Lineage or The Pyramids' Tearful Valleys (2011) and Communism and the Net (2020). His retrospective work for Karel Vachek consited also from publishing all his feature films as a special collection on DVD and participation on a monography book co-written by Martin Švoma. As a producer, Prochazka is responsible for over 20 feature films, documentaries and cross-genre films e.g. mockumentaries (specially early works of Robert Sedláček). For many of these productions Prochazka received Czech and international awards. Since 2013 he focuses on international co-productions and films by debut-making directors. One of the most acclaimed coproduction films was Tomáš Kratochvíl's Pongo Calling about a Roma lorry driver and activist. In 2022, Prochazka's films premiered at big festivals such as Sheffield DocFest, Karlovy Vary IFF, and Jihlava IDFF. In 2019, he founded a new company, Kuli Film, as a professional background for his mostly arthouse animated, documentary, and feature films. In 2024, he released a puppet short by Jan Cechl, Lawrence of Moravia, in a Czech-Portuguese co-production and a live action short by Lukáš Masner, The Price of a Story (Cena příběhu), the first Czech-Greenlandic co-production for which Icelandic composer Kjartan Holm composed the music.

### Film director

His latest directorial effort, the experimental site-specific film collage Sanitation (2022), was created for the super-wide screen of the Prague Center for Architecture and Urban Planning (CAMP), where it was premiered in February 2022. He collaborated on it with editor Jan Daňhel and music composer Michal Rataj. With Robin Kvapil, Procházka co-directed the film We Can Do Better, which opened the IDFF Jihlava 2018. It captures the presidential election campaign of Michal Horáček from the point of view of the candidate adviser.

## Other activities

In 2021, he defended his dissertation, for which he gained his PhD, with a piece entitled Festival work as a reference of the quality of Czech films: autoethnography of a producer in the filmmaking field. He is a member of the European Film Academy and ACE Producer 20/21. Since 2012, he has been a mentor in directing courses at the international department of Prague's film school FAMU. Prochazka also publishes articles and books about documentary films, including online revue on docs, DokRevue.

## Filmography
### Director

* 2005 – Krejča behind the Gates (Krejča za branou)
* 2007 – Papírový atentát
* 2009 – Náš první hospodář
* 2010 – Catenaccio à la Drnovice or Journey to the Beginning of Time of Economic Transformation (Drnovické catenaccio aneb Cesta do pravěku ekonomické transformace)
* 2012 – The Navel of the Sky (Pupek nebe)
* 2014 – Čí je moje dítě (with Marek Duda)
* 2015 – 50%
* 2018 – We Can Do Better (Máme na víc, with Robin Kvapil)
* 2022 – Asanace (Sanitation), producer/director, site-specific documentary short

### Producer

* 2006 – Záviš, the Prince of Pornofolk Under the Influence of Griffith's Intolerance and Tati's Monsieur Hulot's Holiday or the Establition and Doom of Czechoslovakia 1918-1992 (Záviš, kníže pornofolku pod vlivem Griffithovy Intolerance a Tatiho Prázdnin pana Hulota aneb Vznik a zánik Československa (1918–1992) (Karel Vachek)
* 2006 – Rules of Lies (Pravidla lži, Robert Sedláček)
* 2009 – V hlavní roli Gustáv Husák (Robert Sedláček)
* 2010 – Greatest Czechs (Největší z Čechů, 95 min., Robert Sedláček)
* 2011 – Long Live the Family! (Rodina je základ státu, 103 min., Robert Sedláček)
* 2011 – The Obscurantist and his Lineage or Pyramids' Tearfull Valley (Tmář a jeho rod aneb Slzavé údolí pyramid, Karel Vachek)
* 2012 – Křehká identita (Zuzana Piussi)
* 2013 – Wolf (Claudio Giovannesi)
* 2014 – Schmitke (Štěpán Altrichter)
* 2014 – Čí je moje dítě (Marek Duda, Radim Procházka)
* 2015 – Koudelka Shooting Holy Land (Koudelka fotografuje Svatou zemi, Gilad Baram)
* 2015 – Dust (Prach, Vít Zapletal)
* 2016 – My Name is Hungry Buffalo (Jmenuji se Hladový Bizon, Pavel Jurda)
* 2016 – Slepý Gulliver (společně s Klárou Žloudkovou) (Martin Ryšavý)
* 2017 – Vánoční svatba sněhuláka Karla (Petr Vodička)
* 2017 – Wilder than Wilderness (Planeta Česko, Marián Polák)
* 2018 – We Can Do Better (Máme na víc, Robin Kvapil, Radim Procházka)
* 2018 – D is for Division (Neklidná hranice, Dāvis Sīmanis)
* 2019 – První akční hrdina (First Action Hero, Jan Haluza)
* 2019 – Communism and the Net or the End of Representatory Democracy (Komunismus a síť aneb Konec zastupitelské demokracie, Karel Vachek)
* 2019 – The Vasulka Effect (Efekt Vašulka, dir. Hrafnhildur Gunnarsdóttir)
* 2021 – The Year Before the War (Rok před válkou, Dāvis Sīmanis)
* 2022 – á-B-C-D-é-F-G-H-CH-í-JONESTOWN (a-B-C-D-e-F-G-H-i-JONESTOWN), producer, fiction feature, dir. Jan Bušta
* 2022 – Planeta Praha (Wild Prague), producer, feature documentary, dir. Jan Hošek
* 2022 – Barcarole (producer, fiction short, dir. Igor Chmela)
* 2022 – Pongo Calling, producer, feature documentary, dir. Tomáš Kratochvíl
* 2022 – Gregor Mendel a tajemství hrášku (Gregor Mendel and the Secret of Peas), producer, animation short, dir. David Súkup
* 2022 – Asanace (Sanitation), producer/director, site-specific documentary short
* 2024 – Lawrence of Moravia (Lawrence z Morávie), puppet short, dir. Jan Cechl
* 2024 – Cena příběhu (The Prize of a Story), live action short, dir. Lukáš Masner
* 2025 – First Book (První kniha, dir. Miloš Zvěřina, in production)
* 2027 – Babu in the Night City (Babu v nočním městě, dir. Petr Vodička, in production)