Based in Prague, Czech Republic, Silk Films is an emerging independent film production company dedicated to progressive authors projects and appealing stories. Being driven by two determined and enthusiastic female producers with various backgrounds Silk Films is now developing feature films, TV series and documentaries with a focus on fresh topics and international audience. Creative approach together with slate of up-and-coming authors makes silk projects delicate yet strong and ambitious.
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Silk Films s.r.o. Rokycanova 983/8 130 00 Praha IČ:05066115 DIČ:CZ05066115
MARTINA ŠTRUNC
alzbeta@silkfilms.cz +420603196487
ALŽBĚTA JANÁČKOVÁ
martina@silkfilms.cz +420724516755
MARTINA ŠTRUNC
Alžběta studied International Business at University of Economics, Prague and Film Producing at FAMU. Her scope is very wide. She has working experiences in commercial production and sport extreme documentaries, she has also worked as a creative producer on projects with Czech Television, for example Kamu in Mexico (2018, dir. Radek Karko) or Czechia not only for sport (2021, dir. Martin Vrbický). She focuses on experimental films, documentaries and recently also on feature films. She loves her dogs, photography, yoga, music, art and all kinds of extreme sports.
A film producer based in Prague. Martina studied Journalism at Charles University and Film Producing at FAMU. She worked on various documentary films including Robin Kvapil's The Skull Man (2012) and Vit Klusak's The White World According to Daliborek (2017). Her first experiences as a producer are charity videos for Doctors without Borders directed by Radim Špaček (2012 and 2013). Martina is also pursuing her dream to write screenplays and direct.
KAMILA DOHNALOVÁ
IN DEVELOPMENT
IN PRODUCTION
COMPLETED
THE LAW OF LOVE
FEATURE DOCUMENTARY FILM DIRECTED BY  BARBORA CHALUPOVÁ PRODUCED BY MARTINA ŠTRUNC & PAVLA KLIMEŠOVÁ  2021
 
THE PROJECT WAS SUPPORTED BY THE CZECH FILM FUND
On the surface, it looks like the whole society in the Czech Republic is open-minded and LGBT+ friendly. But when it comes to the question of the law and marriage of same-sex couples, hidden ignorance and hatred appears. One man Czeslaw and the group of his companions runs a campaign to prove to the politicians and common society that the fight for LGBT+ rights in Europe is far not over. Will he succeed? Will the Czech Republic be the first country in Eastern Europe where gays and lesbians will be able to marry? Or will all the effort get stuck in the political populistic maze?”
IN COPRODUCTION WITH CZECH TELEVISION
ORIGINAL TITLE: OSOBNÍ ŽIVOT DÍRY FEATURE DOCUMENTARY FILM DIRECTED BY ONDŘEJ VAVREČKA  PRODUCED BY ALZBETA JANACKOVA IN COOPERATION WITH PETRA VIRTANEN (FI) 2020
PERSONAL LIFE OF THE HOLE
WITH THE SUPPORT OF THE CZECH FILM FUND, PROMOTION CENTRE FOR AUDIOVISUAL CULTURE FINLAND AVEK, DOK. INCUBATOR ADN KLARA KHINE DISTRIBUTION
I ask myself: What is the world? We live in a time hole and our life is interspersed with shared holes of nonsense. We're always in the hole, trying to earn a living. Our memory ends in the hole of forgetting. There is the harmful ozone hole; the inexplicable black hole. Atoms are more empty than full, they are full of holes. In the ground there are holes full of trash and holes full of coal. There is a hole in our heart when we lose our lover. A window is a hole in the wall. There is also a hole in the film "Personal Life Of A Hole". Holy hole, what to do with all these holes?! The film shot on 16mm colorful film stock contemplates contemporary culture, ecology, economics, and finally, love.
THE SPRING MAN
STRANGER THAN PARADISE
FIRE MOUNTAIN
KARLOS
THE NIGHT BUTTERFLY
CHICA CHECA
DESIGN MATĚJ RŮŽIČKA  |  WEB LUKÁŠ TRNOBRANSKÝ
A film producer based in Prague. Martina studied Journalism at Charles University and Film Producing at FAMU. She worked on various documentary films including Robin Kvapil's The Skull Man (2012) and Vit Klusak's The White World According to Daliborek (2017). Her first experiences as a producer are charity videos for Doctors without Borders directed by Radim Špaček (2012 and 2013). Martina co-operates with many film production companies as a production manager and assistant director.
alzbeta@silkfilms.cz  |  +420603196487
martina@silkfilms.cz  |  +420724516755
Silk Films s.r.o. Rokycanova 983/8 Praha 130 00 IČ:05066115 DIČ:CZ05066115
OTHER WORK
A FEATURE LENGTH DOCUMENTARY FILM DIRECTED BY ROBIN KVAPIL PRODUCED BY MARTINA ŠTRUNC
Truck driver Jaroslav Miko is by all means an anomaly among other people in his social bubble. He is well aware of it. Jaroslav says that considering Czech standards, he has a “weird” family. He has a Roma wife and their daughters are quarter Vietnamese. Jaroslav is a co-founder of The Czech Help initiative and he actively promotes the acceptance of children of the refugee crisis victims. In the observatory portrait, the director observes and records Miko, the “hero of our time”, during all his activities. The final destinations include refugee camps and the Czech Senate. The means of transport which will get the audience to these places is a cabin of a truck. A film play about the conscience of the Czech nation. 
MIKO
WITH THE SUPPORT OF THE CZECH FILM FUND IN COPRODUCTION WITH MAGICLAB
Fire Mountain used to be a peripheral area situated in Prague in Třebešín right above the railway line owned by the train loading station Žižkov. As time passed by this place lost its original significance and turned into abandoned no man's land. And then it became an asylum and a home for few people. Some might call these people homeless but this documentary film shows them as those who live outside the common system: in a parallel Universe where modernity meets prehistory and the word community takes back its original meaning.
FIRE MOUNTAIN
ORIGINAL TITLE: DÝMOVÁ HORA FEATURE DOCUMENTARY FILM DIRECTED BY EPOS 257 PRODUCED BY ALŽBĚTA JANÁČKOVÁ & MARTINA ŠTRUNC
IN PRODUCTION
BELOW THE BLACK SUN RISING
MIKO
RAPSTORY
COMPLETED
THE LAW OF LOVE
MIRRORS IN THE DARK
PERSONAL LIFE OF A HOLE
GREENPEACE II.
VÝCHOVA PONOŽKOVÝCH KAVALÍRŮ
GREENPEACE I.
PLANETA BEZ PAMĚTI
BELOW THE BLACK SUN RISING
Below the Black Sun Rising is an audiovisual hypnotic meditation on the symbol of the "black sun" as depicted in prehistoric and ancient spiritual traditions, runic scriptures, alchemy, psychoanalysis, occultism, and politics. In the Euro-Atlantic context, this symbol is as controversial as the swastika. However, the real tradition of this symbol is several thousand years old and at the same time it is firmly connected with the history of our capital city Prague. The film approaches this symbol as a broader concept and tries to emphasize and examine its psychological and mythological side. As one of the most frequently depicted symbols in human cultures across all continents, the black sun is a rich and significant source of inspiration and deep thought.
WITH THE SUPPORT OF THE CZECH FILM FUND
ORIGINAL TITLE: POD VYCHÁZEJÍCÍM ČERNÝM SLUNCEM EXPERIMENTAL FILM DIRECTED BY KILIÁN KUDĚLA PRODUCED BY ALŽBĚTA JANÁČKOVÁ
MIRRORS IN THE DARK
Marie is frustrated with her broken long-term relationship, career in dance and life in general.
ORIGINAL TITLE: ZRCADLA VE TMĚ FEATURE FILM DIRECTED BY ŠIMON HOLÝ PRODUCED BY šššššFILM, CO-PRODUCED BY ALŽBĚTA JANÁČKOVÁ 2021
WITH THE SUPPORT OF IN COPRODUCTION WITH CZECH TELEVISION
DOCUMENTARY SERIES DIRECTED BY ŠIMON ŠAFRÁNEK  PRODUCED BY ALŽBĚTA JANÁČKOVÁ & MARTINA ŠTRUNC
Rapstory is a series about the history of Czech hip hop. From the revolutionary year 1989 to the present, through the eyes of those who formed the local hip hop scene. It charts historical milestones and the transformation of rap over the years, against the backdrop of overall changes in society and deepens the individual moments.The series has no narrative voice, the raps history is conducted by the rappers themselves. It is a rough, raw and laconic puzzle with steep, contrasting cuts, ironic testimonies, and a number of private and television archives.
COPRODUCED BY šššššFILM AND FILMFABRIQ
Fifty-five-year-old Zdena has been living alone in the village for several years. Her mother lives the last months of her life in the hospital and she has only one wish: to meet Helena again. Who is the mysterious woman her mother wants to see again and how can the last wish be fulfilled? It is gradually discovered by her grandson Lukáš, who is returning home from New York, so  he can say goodbye to his grandmother for the last time. He slowly turns his mother's life upside down and shows her that she has a chance to be happy again. Although the inhabitants of the village may not like it…
FEATURE FILM DIRECTED BY ŠIMON HOLÝ PRODUCED BY ALŽBĚTA JANÁČKOVÁ
FEATURE DOCUMENTARY FILM DIRECTED BY MIKE SAMIR PRODUCED BY MARTINA ŠTRUNC (Silk Films) & MATĚJ CHLUPÁČEK (Barletta Productions) & ONDŘEJ KULHÁNEK (Bontonfilm Studios) DISTRIBUTED BY BONTONFILM
Karel Vémola is an enigma waiting to be cracked. On one side, we have a prolific MMA fighter who became the first ever Czech to join the world famous UFC. On the other, we have a tabloid monster featuring on covers of glossy magazines with his glamour model girlfriend. He owns a 90s style villa called Vemoland which is being guarded by two sculptured and one real lion. Inside, he pets an alligator as well as a couple of sharks. He is friends with the most controversial businessmen around yet he is invited for the annual presidential reception at the Prague castle. He is an athlete and a cage-fighting beast but he is also a father of three, son and a brother to a man he refuses to speak to. This is a portrait of an extreme human being on the backdrop of an extreme era. 
 
WEB MINISERIES PRODUCED BY MARTINA ŠTRUNC CREATIVE COOPERATION: Lenka Olšanová, Martina Babišová, Alena Doláková, Natálie Golovchenko
A comedy series about women capable of doing anything to succeed in the men’s world. Our four heroines of different shapes, sizes and origins know very well that the game of a throne is tough like an american survivor show and only one can win it all. But something unexpected happens while they are overcoming all kinds of weird, dangerous and funny obstacles on their journey to the spotlight. An international series in English happening in Prague, the nipple of the Eastern Europe, dealing with jealousy and competitiveness among women but also their strength and courage to fight for equality, justice and solidarity.
MIGHTY WOMAN
Our story takes place during The Protectorate Era, precisely during the period from Heydrich's arrival to Prague till the assassination attack on him. This time period during which Heydrich lived in Prague serves as a platform for creating ironicaly mystifical situations which follow real historical events. Using the character of mythical and legendary Czech super hero The Spring Man we connect to the elite fictional Czech resistance group which is dedicated to defeating The Nazi Germany represented by Heydrich.
WITH THE SUPPORT OF THE CZECH FILM FUND
ORIGINAL TITLE: PÉRÁK FEATURE SUPERHERO COMIC EPOPEE FROM THE PROTECTORATE ERA DIRECTED BY JIŘÍ HAVELKA PRODUCED BY MARTINA ŠTRUNC
THE SPRING MAN
THE NIGHT BUTTERFLY
A 10-year-old girl who does not believe in fairy tales causes her mother to magically disappear. The little girl decides to leave the solution to her father, the police chief, but everything changes when magical creatures and an evil wizard kidnap her little brother too. The girl must enter the world of magic and find magical abilities in herself. Dad is waiting to be transformed into a fairy-tale knight. Only then will they defeat the wizards together and the family will be together again.
ORIGINAL TITLE: MŮRKA FEATURE FILM, FAIRYTALE DIRECTED BY TOMÁŠ KRATOCHVÍL PRODUCED BY ALŽBĚTA JANÁČKOVÁ
EXPERIMENTAL DOCUMENTARY DIRECTED BY: GABRIELA PROCHÁZKA PRODUCED BY: ALŽBĚTA JANÁČKOVÁ
An audiovisual essay with a particular focus on ecology, climate change, and poetry. It moves between an audiovisual essay and hybrid document, with its images overlaid and polluted by commonly unseen or unrepresented phenomena. This interplay between footage and abstract visualization produces the effect of describing, distorting, morphing, andvisualizing what we may otherwise be unable tofully grasp in our complex,contemporary world. Additionally, this mediation is achieved not only through image, but also with the help of sound artists. The film is divided into 5 chapters, each dedicated to a particular aspect of the “natural world” as we knowit now - in the context of the emerging Anthropocene and climate change.
WITH CO PRODUCTION WITH LUNCHMEAT.
IN CO PRODUCTION WITH LUNCHMEAT.