Jana Boková
Jana Boková is a Czech film director.
Boková was born in Prague, but left Czechoslovakia in August 1968 to attend a conference of art students in Austria, then emigrated to Paris, France to study at the Sorbonne. She then lived in the United States where she worked as a photographer for Rolling Stone and other magazines.[1] She then lived in the United Kingdom for many years, studying at the National Film and Television School, and producing documentary films for British television.[2]
She wrote and directed the 1986 drama film Hôtel du Paradis, which was shown out of competition at the Cannes Film Festival in 1987.[3]
In 2001, Boková was approached by musician Eric Clapton to direct a music video, but ended up filming a feature-length documentary film called Eric Clapton and Friends which covered Clapton's band's rehearsals and preparations for a world tour.[4]
In 2003, the Cinémathèque Française hosted a complete retrospective of Boková's work.[1]
Her most recent film, Bye Bye Shanghai (2008), examines the concept of "exile" as it relates to Czech émigrés including herself.[1]
Boková currently lives in Buenos Aires, Argentina
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Jana Boková / Czech Republic, Doc Alliance Films.
- ↑ Rencontre avec la réalisatrice Jana Bokova, Cinéma Le Clef, 11 October 2000. (French)
- ↑ HOTEL DU PARADIS, Festival de Cannes, 1987.
- ↑ Nesselson, Lisa: Eric Clapton and Friends, Variety, 7 November 2002.
External links
- Articles with French-language external links
- Living people
- Czech film directors
- Czech women film directors
- Argentine women film directors
- Czech documentary film directors
- Argentine documentary film directors
- Czechoslovak emigrants to Argentina
- Film directors from Prague
- Alumni of National Film and Television School
