ABOUT SCHOOL

Barrandov Film School has been established by Wiktor Grodecki in response to the popular demand from his previous students whom he taught at various film schools in many countries. Barrandov Film School offers One-year & Two-year intensive Filmmaking Programs and One-year Acting program for film & theatre. It is situated at the Barrandov Film Studios, also known as the “European Hollywood” or “Hollywood of the East” due to its ever-increasing interest from western film productions. Barrandov is one of the largest and oldest film studios in Europe. For over 80 years, this place has been the location of choice for over 2,500 international and Czech films. Barrandov Studio is also a production hub for the television community.

Wiktor Grodecki

WRITER / DIRECTOR / PRODUCER

ABOUT THE FOUNDER

Wiktor Grodecki is an award-winning writer/director currently based in Prague. He studied at the Directing Department of the Polish Academy for Film, Drama, and TV in Lodz from 1979 until 1983 (the class of Wojciech Jerzy Has). In 1983, his feature documentary about Roman Polanski “Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man” had been invited to FILMEX in Los Angeles by Gary Essert. Grodecki had been granted a passport to travel by the Polish communist authorities but they refused to let him take his film. He decided to smuggle it out and once in the U.S., he resolved not to return to Poland and received political asylum. Grodecki stayed in the U.S, where he continued to work as a Film & TV director and Editor. Among other works, he directed a feature film “Him” loosely based on Oscar Wilde’s “Salome” produced by Albert Milgrom and staged two plays by St.I.Witkiewicz – “They” and “Madman and the Nun” in Minneapolis, MN.