section: Czech Joy
edition: 2018
country: Czech Republic
Czech documentarian and screenwriter Dvořáková won a 2017 Student Academy Award American for her short film Who’s Who in Mycology (2016). Her other student films – The Wife of Opitz (2003), When I Grow Up (2005), and The Bead (2006) – have won international awards as well. She is a programming director for the Czech Center in New York.