Filip Pošivač

Filip graduated from the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague in the field of animation. In 2015 he finished a short film DEEP IN MOSS, which was screened at many festivals -HAFF, Ottawa IAF, Chicago Intl. Children's Film Festival, DOK Leipzig, Animateka or Anifilm. In 2016 a web series called LIVE FROM THE MOSS followed up on the film. In 2019 he directed with Barbora Valecká the short film OVERBOARD!, screened in competition at Giffoni 2020. TONY, SHELLY AND THE MAGIC LIGHT is his first feature film.

“In my debut, I’ve decided to use the stop-motion puppet animation technology. We shot the puppets frame by frame, which is bound to be a truly adventurous process! To me, animation has always been something magical. As a child, I used to watch the old, animated films by Jiří Trnka, the legendary Czechoslovak filmmaker and visual artist. I think that puppets have a potent dramatic aura. When a puppet moves, a sparkle lights in the eyes of both children and adult viewers. There’s something so enchanting about it! And animation breathes life to puppets. The puppets and the settings around them are made of regular materials – things that we are usually familiar with. When watching stop-motion animation, we thus have the intimate feeling that we can ‘touch’ the story.”