Kveto Hecko

He's an award-winning film director, writer, producer, and editor of over 60 documentary, feature, animated, experimental, and corporate films selected for three dozens of international film and television festivals and broadcast on television channels worldwide. During his prolific career he created and shot films, movies, videos and television programs in numerous countries in Europe, Japan, New Zealand, and the USA. He also taught on the universities and colleges film students in several of those countries. He loves audio-visual medium of film, video, digital video that incorporates all other arts: photography, music, prose and poetry, theatre and dance, architecture, drawing, art and sculpture. Many of his artfilms - films dealing with various art subjects - have also become a part of prominent art exhibitions in European museums. He's also a technical expert on video - codecs, encoding, streaming, metadata, localization, captions, titles, and animation - and on production processes and workflows - in OTT, blackout operations, and studio recording equipment He assembled an international terminology list in 35 languages for the Harry Potter film and book series and translation for Warner Bros, consulted on translations of scripts and dialogues lists for Disney and Universal. Besides producing, writing, and directing, he is also an editor (picture, sound, and music). He edited a short film Most/The Bridge nominated for the Academy Awards® 2004. He is fluent in several languages and plays several instruments: guitar, drums, percussions and piano (jazz).