Jan Tománek

Biography

Jan Tománek (born 1978) is a Czech filmmaker. He graduated from the High School of Arts in Prague in 1996. He has been studying at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague since 1999, in the studio of New Media. He has been making short 3D animated movies and combined movies with real actors since 1997. In 1997 he created his first short movie, Perpetuum mobile. In 1999 he produced two short acted movies and one 3D animated story about two living glasses. Since 2007 he has been working with Czech Television on his latest movie, which will be a combination of 3D modelled backgrounds with real actors shot on a blue background. He also works with Prague's Laterna Magika theatre company. Tománek's movies have been presented and awarded at Czech and foreign festivals. On his short films he does almost everything alone, including sctipt, directing, animation and post-production. In 2008 he released a new film project Goat Story - The Old Prague Legends (Czech: Kozí příběh - pověsti staré Prahy) - the first full-length Czech 3D animated movie. In 2012 he completed the sequel Goat story with Chesse - aka Goat Story 2 . In 2018, he published his first novel Motýlí křik (The Butterfly scream) in the publishing house Albatros Media.