Ondrej Lukes
Ondřej Lukeš was born in 1991 and began his studies at the Department of Production at FAMU in Prague in 2018. In 2022, he founded his own production company, Beginner’s Mind. During his studies, he worked as a producer on his feature debut, Brutal Heat (dir. Albert Hospodářský). The film premiered in the Proxima competition section at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in 2023, where it received the Jury’s Special Mention. He is currently completing two more feature films, The Other Side of Summer (Czechia/Croatia) and The Champion (Czechia/Slovakia), as well as a documentary feature, Urban Disobedience Toolkit (Czechia). He is the only independent producer who is a founding member of the newly emerging first Czech green filming platform, which unites the most significant players in the Czech audiovisual industry.

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