ABOUT US
Silverart is a young production company launched by Katarína Krnáčová. While at MPhilms Katarina worked on the short film THANKS, FINE (2009, dir. M. Prikler, premiered at the Cinéfondation section of Cannes IFF 2010) followed by the feature film FINE, THANKS (2013, dir. M. Prikler) which had its world premiere at IFF Rotterdam 2013, and SLOVAKIA 2.0 (2014, dir. by 10 directors). As a consulting producer, she worked on the feature MY DOG KILLER (2013, dir. Mira Fornay) which received the Tiger award at Rotterdam IFF 2013 and was a Slovak Oscar contender. In 2017 she premiered her recent family drama LITTLE HARBOUR (PIATA LOĎ) directed by Iveta Grofova whose debut film was a Slovak Oscar contender. LITTLE HARBOUR is a Slovak-Czech coproduction supported by Creative Europe and Eurimages. The film was awarded the Crystal Bear at Berlinale 2017 for the Best Film in Generation Kplus competition. LITTLE HARBOUR has travelled around many festivals and has received many awards.
In 2020 she premiered her children family film SUMMER REBELS at BUSAN International Kids Festival which was followed by a theatrical release in Slovakia and the Czech Republic. SUMMER REBELS is a Slovak-German co-production with the support of Slovak National TV, Audiovisual Fund, Creative Europe – Media and German fund BKM and DFFF. She is currently developing the project FLOOD directed by Martin Gonda, whose graduate film PURA VIDA premiered at the Cinéfondation section of Cannes Film Festival, and a TV drama series 1989 in co-production with a VOD platform. She is currently in postproduction with the road movie STAND UP, the first Slovak green film. She coproduced SAVING ONE WHO WAS DEAD (Czechia - Slovakia, supported by Eurimages) directed by Václav Kadrnka that has its world premiere at IFF Karlovy Vary 2021. She also coproduced children film HOW I LEARNED TO FLY (Serbia - Croatia - Bulgaria - Slovakia) directed by Radivoje Andrić that won Best European Film Award at BUFF Malmö 2022 and she is in postproduction with Czech coproduction CALM IN THE CANOPY, feature debut by Michal Hogenauer. With Slovak National TV she is currently developing historical TV series THE LAST BARONESS with support of Creative Europe MEDIA.
Katarína Krnáčová
She is an EAVE 2015 graduate and a Producers on the Move 2017 participant; she was trained at various workshops such as Ex Oriente and Midpoint. Having a 15 years long experience in film production, in 2015 she founded her own production company Silverart where she produces film and TV projects. She is a voting member of the European Film Academy/EFA and vice-president of the Slovak Film and Television Academy/SFTA. In 2020 she was part of the Shooting Stars jury at Berlinale.
Tomáš Gič
Tomáš received his Master's degree in Film Production at the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava where he produced more than 20 student films. Many of them were screened at numerous international film festivals. He worked as an Executive Producer of the short film PURA VIDA, which premiered at Cinefondation in Cannes and the short documentary In Shallow Water which was selected for DOK Leipzig 2021. Tomáš also finished bachelor degree from Law at Comenius University. Currently, as Junior Producer at production company Silverart, he is developing the feature film debut FLOOD directed by Martin Gonda, feature film MINA by Martin Hnát and documentary GLORIOUS UTOPIA by Marek Moučka.