Slávek Horák

Slávek Horák was born on Jan 12, 1975 in Czechoslovakia. Slávek Horák's big-screen debut came with Home Care directed by Slávek Horák in 2015, strarring Robert.

After high school graduated at Film School Zlin under Prof. Jan Gogola who is still dramaturgist of all his former student's writing. Accepted at FAMU Prague film academy to screenwriting and directing courses, studies directing under Karel Smyczek and Jaromil Jires. Didn't finish his studies thanks to early success in directing commercials. In more than 15 years he directed over 120 commercials all over the world, ranging from worldwide Lexus campaign to local Czech spots. Often awarded at Czech, Slovak and international commercials festivals. Works as 2nd AD on Jan Sverak's feature "Kolya", which wins Best Foreign Language Academy Award. For international project Straight8 he makes two short movies, both of them are selected for the project's Cannes premiere screenings. One of them, "Déjà vu", is still popular at avantgard short film festival circuit. In 2015 he writes, directs and produces his feature debut "Home care", winning high praise and high funding support from Film foundation and National Cinematography fund in Czech republic. The film is produced by his own production company TVORBA films.