
Eliška Kováříková
producer, director, writer
producer, director, writer
She was born in Prague in the early 1990s. She studied architecture at TUL and screenwriting at FAMU. Visual imagination and the desire to tell stories eventually joined together in film directing. She often works with child actors. In 2017, she founded film acting courses for children in Prague, where she still works as a lecturer. She also runs a children’s acting agency Kids&chips. For four months she worked as an intern at the London-based architectural studio Atmos. And later she spent a year in Berlin working on a script. In 2022, she founded the production company Cat&chips with her long-time collaborator Adam Struhala.
Filmography
Luigi (90 min), in preparations
scriptwritter, director, production
Furious beauty (90 min), in preparations
scriptwritter, director
The glory of Terrible Eliz (30 min), 2019-2021
scriptwritter, director
Koumando, tv series (15x20min), 2020
scriptwritter – 4 epizodes
Dva3, tv show (15min), 2022-2023
director
Intermezzo (5 min), 2020
co-director, co-writer
It must be paintfull (20 min), 2019 – d. David Semler
production
Not asleep yet? (25 min), 2018-2019 -> d. David Payne
scriptwritter
dokumentary Wildlife Guards, Stream.cz, 2019
dramaturgy
Rekonstruction (20min), 2018
scriptwritter, director
About Anna Devers shoes lost (20 min), 2016-2017 -> d. Lucie Kryzová
scriptwritter
Awards
Czech national award – Czech lion, 2022
Nomination: Short film – The glory of Terrible Eliz
Nomination: Magnesia award – Not asleep yet?
Czech criticts award, 2022 Nomination: Short film – The glory of Terrible Eliz
Famufest (school festival), 2022
Best film – The glory of Terrible Eliz
Best unrealized script – The Moravian Odessey
Czech film fundation, 2019
Script – The Furious Beauty
Famufest (school festival), 2018
Best unrealized script – The Furious Beauty
Famufest (school festival), 2017
Best unrealized script – Ultraspeed-Oversweet
Magnesia award, 2019
Best student comics book – Šmelhaus (colaborator)
Workshops, forums
KVIFF, program Talents, 2022
Scripteast program, 2019-2020
The glory of Terrible Eliz (short film)
Pilot pen (comercial)
Still Awake? (short film)











