Daniel Habrda

Daniel Habrda is a Czech film director and screenwriter, graduate of the Private Higher Vocational Film School in Písek and of the Film Academy of Miroslav Ondricek in Písek and a co-founder of the multimedia production company NuArt. He was born on 10 March 1993 in Ceske Budejovice. He is the son of the music composer, producer and founder of the private radio station Evropa 2 - Ceske Budejovice Michal Habrda. His film career began in the fourth year of secondary school. On his subsequent films, he collaborated with actors from the South Bohemian Theatre, Pavel Travnicek, Kamila Janovicova, Ondrej Novak, Sarka Vaculíková, Lukas Prikazky, among others. His work includes several student or amateur short films (Ta prava, Jitrenka, Krcma) and documentaries (Jazzman, Kristian: Way of Music). His best movie and the high-point of his career so far has been his graduate's film, the fairy-tale Z pekla do pekla (From Hell to Hell), which also won the audience award at the film festival Cerna vez. Daniel Habrda also teaches filmmaking. Already when he took first interest in film while still in secondary school, he founded, together with his father, the multimedia production company NuArt, which today primarily focuses on producing videos, commercials, video spots or small documentaries. Aside from commissions for local clientele (festival Trebonská Nokturna, Budvar, Nicotrans, Sinop) and from elsewhere in the Czech Republic (Moyobo), NuArt company worked also for customers from abroad, e.g. Apple or Razer. NuArt also produced the Making of film Spindl 2, with Daniel Habrda directing. The main goals of the company, however, is its own productions and Daniel Habrda aims at making his own professional films. Currently, he is working on his debut feature film Samhain.