Martin Hnát finished Film Directing at the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava in 2015 with his graduation film The Ballad of Simon and Teresa, which resonated at home and on foreign film festivals. Since then he has been freelancing as a writer, editor and a director and working with Tereza Dodokova on their feature film debut Mina. Martin is also currently working on a screenplay based on the life and work of painter Ladislav Mednyánszky.