section: First Lights
edition: 2021, 2024
country: Czech Republic
After mathematic high school he study directing at FAMU in Prague. His student films have been screened worldwide and his short film Retriever was presented in the Cinéfondation section of the Cannes Film Festival.
He worked as the second director on The Wolf from the Royal Vineyard Street film, which he later finished after the legendary author Jan Němec passed away. The film was awarded with the Special Jury Award in the main competition of Karlovy Vary International Film Festival and presented at the Rotterdam Film Festival. As director of photography he worked on film FREM by Viera Cakany which was entirely shot in Antarctica. Film was premiered in Forum Berlinale and Tomas received Czech critics award for best audiovisual achievement of the year.
As his directing debut he did adaptation of a famous Jáchym Topol novel A Sensitive person which was premiered at Crystal Globe competition of 2023 Karlovy Vary film festival and film is being now screened at film festivals all around the world.
He loves to do documentaries for both TV and cinema. He focuses on themes like mental health or human rights. Right now he is working on his second feature and also on documentary depicting research using psychedelics in psychoterapy for people suffering terminal diagnoses.