Pavlína Kalandrová graduated from Palacky University in Olomouc (Theatre Studies and Czech Language and Literature) and from Film and TV School of Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (FAMU, Film and TV production). She co-founded the production company Duracfilm where she produced mainly documentaries (In Sight, 2010, The Tripoint, 2011, H*art On, 2016 – screened at FID Marseille, Jihlava IDFF, One World Prague, Shanghai IFF, Beijing IFF, Jaipur IFF, or AFO Olomouc), but also feature fiction (Children, SK/CZ) or animated and experimental films (Changing the Scene, 2010). She was one of the Emerging producers 2014. She worked as director of the Creative Europe Desk CZ – MEDIA between 2014–2017, where among other things, she was at the birth of the CEE Animation initiative, and as creative director of the Institute of Documentary Film between 2017–2018. She was a member of the expert committee for minority co-productions of the Slovak Audiovisual Fund and a member of the selection committee for the documentary films of the Finále Plzeň festival. She has been selective support board member of the Czech Film Fund.