Helena Trestikova

Born in 1949 in Prague –then Czeckoslovakia– she graduated in Documentary Filmmaking at the local FAMU. Since Romeo, Juliet and the Children (1974), she has directed around 50 documentaries, including René (1993), Carmen Story (1999), My Lucky Star (2004) and Marcela (2007), all of them screened in the Focus on her work held at Bafici ‘09.