What About Petey? / Q&A
After the screening András Baranyi (ELTE Média student) will be in conversation with director Martin Trabalík and producer Jan Bodnár.
Martin Trabalik is a Czech documentarist based in Prague. In his work, he focuses on social, humanitarian and environmental issues. In January 2016 he volunteered during the European refugee crisis in Greece becoming interested in photography in the process. Since then he has worked on several projects in Nagorno-Karabakh, Donbas, Bangladesh, Afghanistan and other areas. In the year 2018, he was awarded UNHRC and Czech Press Photo prize in the category Problems of our age for covering the Rohingya's expulsion from Myanmar. In 2021 he directed and produced documentary movie Incendios about forest fires in Bolivia which was awarded Best Documentary Feature at the International Film Festival in La Paz. Beside documentary projects he enjoys also other fields of creative expression. Feature documentary What about Petey? is his second feature lenght film.
Jan Bodnár is a Czech independent producer and journalist. As a producer, he has worked on several award-winning documentary films — How I Became a Partisan (dir. Vera Lacková, 2021), The World According to My Dad (dir. Marta Kovářová, 2023), and Dajori (dir. Martin Páv and Nicolas Kourek, 2024). He is the founder of the production company Safe Place Production. He has participated in numerous international training programs and workshops, including IDFAcademy, Dok.Incubator, Ex Oriente, ACE Training Days, and Move It On, among others. Between 2016 and 2019, he worked as a programmer for the queer film festival Mezipatra.
