CZECH DREAM - Documentary, Czech Republic, 2004, 87 Minutes
In Czech with English Subtitles
This smash international hit, a darling of festival-goers and critics alike, has a set-up so wickedly delicious it's easy to forget we are witnessing real events as they unfold. Vit and Filip are two smart and wryly humorous Czech film students who decide to create an elaborate ad campaign for an imaginary new "hyper" market. One part prank, two parts sly wink at their post-communist consumer-oriented society, these "lads" are so clever we are on their side before we know it. Enlisting the aid of the best in the advertising industry, they saturate Prague with I-Pod-brilliant print, radio and TV spots that work the population into a frenzy. Their success is mirrored in numbers: opening day finds 4000 people standing at a gate looking across an expanse of empty field at a giant, convincing façade. As the crowds begin to rush the "store" with shopping lists in hand, we don't know whether to laugh or cringe, or start running in the opposite direction with our suddenly flustered filmmakers. One thing is clear: we are complicit in this rather scandalous hoax, with quite fascinating results. (Ruth Cowing)

Prize Be TV for Best Film at the Brussels European Film Festival 2005 (Belgium)
Best Non-Fiction Film Award at Michael Moore's Traverse City Film Festival 2005 (US)
Golden Gate Award for Best Documentary Feature at the 48th San Francisco IFF 2005, (US)
JJ-Star Award Jeonju International Film Festival 2005 (South Korea)
Best Czech Documentary Award 2004 and Audience Award International Documentary Festival Jihlava, Czech Republic 2004
FIPRESCI award; International Film Festival Ljubljana , Slovenia 2004 :
Best Documentary, Kristian Award (Czech Film Critics) ; Febiofest 2005, CZ 2005
People's Choice Award for the best film at the 45th Cracow Film Festival 2005 (Poland)
Honorable Mention Eurodok 2005 by the Norwegian film Institute at the European Documentary Film Festival, Oslo (Norway)
Honorable Mention 'Message to Man' Film Festival 2005- Board of Directors award for 'Art polemic with capitalism' (Russia)
Golden Knight Award for the Best Directing to Vit Klusak and Filip Remunda at Chelyabinsk Film Festival 2005 (Russia)
Silver Grape Award, Lubuskie Film Summer 2005- Lagow, Poland
Best Documentary Award Aarhuus Film Festival, Denmark 2004


Directors: Vít Klusák, Filip Remunda
Co-Producer: Irena Taskovski

Originally from Bosnia, Irena Taskovski studied in Prague, London and Jerusalem. She produced VILLAGE B, which won first prize at Karlovy Vary Film Festival 2002. She has also worked as production manager for Czech TV and has organized and programmed several film festivals, including the festival of Czech film in Bosnia and Herzegovina (1997) and Tribute to Stephen Friers at the 2001 Sarajevo Film Festival. She is currently running her own film production company in London.