Katarína Minichová

*1949, Trenčín†2019

Biography

After graduation from the Philosophical Faculty at Charles University in Prague, where she studied

at the Department of History, Film Theory and Aesthetics, she started working for the Slovak

Television Bratislava, first at the department of viewer research and later as an editor, film and

animation dramaturgist. She contributed to production for children, especially to bedtime stories. She was a member of international festival juries, led conferences as well as workshops at home and abroad. Until 2002 she was a member of the international Experts Youth Group of EBU and Sponsor Group for Animated Co-productions (European Broadcasting Union). In 2009, she became the vice president of CIFEJ – International

Film Centre for Children and Young People and in 2012, she was a member of its board. Between the years 1993 and 2014 she lectured screenwriting and dramaturgy at the Department of Animation at the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava. In 2006, she became the program director of the Biennial of Animation Bratislava (BAB).

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Katarina Minichova devoted her whole professional life to Slovak animated film. She was devoted not only to author´s work and screenwriting but also to film critiscism and theory focused on film for children and the youth. Animated fairy tales from TV series belonging to her production are The Smallest Heroes, Dada and Dodo, Little Fish the Water Sprite and Wag Hull, Figure from the Crossroad or Bratislava Fairy Tales. She also wrote screenplays for animated films Shepherd and Wind or Cristopher in the Land of Elves from the TV series Fairy Tales from the Whole World.

Her name is inseparably connected with the International Festival of Animated Films for Children – Biennial of Animation Bratislava (BAB). She initiated the birth of some interesting activities focused on bringing animated production closer to the general public. Creative workshops for children are one of the most successful activities, Animation Express or BAB Cinema – cycle dedicated to animated films coming from Slovakia as well as from abroad. The BAB festival led by Katarina Minichova became a recognized partner of many prestigious European film festivals and nternational institutions.