Speakers

Peter Badač
Producer , Slovakia

Peter is a graduate of VŠMU in Bratislava and FAMU in Prague. In 2010 he studied at HFF “Konrad Wolf” in Potsdam, Germany. In 2014 he received a scholarship from the Fulbright Foundation and studied at Ohio University in Athens, USA.

Peter has experience as a production manager, a creative producer in TV and an independent film producer. He worked as a producer in the company BFILM based in Bratislava and Prague. 

He has produced several shorts (Pandas won the award at Cinefondation 2013 in Cannes, Untravel was released at the Berlinale in 2018, The Kite was released at Berlinale in 2020, Sh_t Happens at IFF Venice and Sundance in 2020, Once There Was a Sea… awarded at the festival in Clermont-Ferrand in 2021) and also feature films (Filthy, directed by Tereza Nvotova was premiered at IFF Rotterdam, Freedom directed by Jan Speckenbach at IFF Locarno, The Nightsiren directed by Tereza Nvotova won award at IFF Locarno in 2022 and Journey to Yourland, directed by Peter Budinský at IFF Zlin in 2022). In 2021 he co-produced a feature animation film by Michaela Pavlátová My Sunny Maad that premiered in Annecy, and was nominated for the Golden Globe and won Cesar as Best Animation Film. 

In 2018 he was selected among 20 European producers to the prestigious program organized by EFP Producer on the Move. He is a graduate of ACE Producers Workshop 31.

He is a member of the Czech Film and Television Academy and the European Film Academy.