Kristina Weiserova
- Camera and Electrical Department
- Director
- Cinematographer
Kristina Weiserova is screenwriter, director and producer. Kristina is using nickname 113kw since 2005. Kristina was born in 1985 in Prague, Czechoslovakia, before the Velvet revolution, in communism era. She grew up in the Old Town / Prague 1, when she was 12 their family moved to Prague 22. This has affected Kristina's art, as she got to know different types of people. She grew up in artist family, her grandfather was important Czech architect Frantisek Cubr (head architect in EXPO 58 and EXPO 67 Czechoslovakia teams), her mother is painter Magdalena Cubrova, and her father is special effects specialist and cinematographer Antonin Weiser. Since early childhood Kristina wanted to be filmmaker, or work in television, as she, thanks to her upbringing, got to meet filmmakers and since young age she knew she wanted to be one of them. She was doing as a kid VHS camera short videos in the 90's but only after finishing high-school, she did her first short movie (in 2004) while also started gaining experiences with filmmaking as Extras, and later also Clapper. She was working on Czech television series, while also working as booking manager in music clubs, she came across VJing, and was also active for quite some time in this field. Asside from this, she was studying journalism with culture and audiovisual specialization, and later also film writing, history, theory and also theatre writing , history and theory. We can say Kristina likes to call herself culture scientist. Thru years, she gained more experiences in working in film crew (Barrandov aka main Czech film studios), and television on various crew positions. She has done more short videos, and later was part of documentary project Shorteknomovie (2008, 2009) that was independently distributed across Czech cinemas and also on DVD. It was about Czech alternative music scene sound-systems and free parties philosophy. After these two years screening of multiple documentaries, while still gaining experiences on bigger projects, she also started her documentary project Eye on DJ (2015) distributed on YouTube, where she portrayed important electronic music artists not only from Czech republic. In 2012 she wrote a script for 35 minutes movie. Against many obstacles, she managed to be able to produce, direct and distribute movie Roots in Ego / Where does evil come from? (premier 2017) about parties, drugs and philosophy, that took inspiration in philosophy book from Paul Brunton, Notebooks. The 35 minutes movie was independently distributed in cinemas around the Czech republic together with music parties, as there is music from 12 music producers in different genres of electronic music, while also art exhibition of artist, involved in the projects with their designs. Some events included workshops about drug harm reduction. In the movie starred known actors, from Czech theatre and film scene, while also some real people. The movie was also part of Czech and Slovak Film Festival of Western Australia, Perth. There was also screening with music party. In past years, Kristina has been working on new scripts, while also working as camera operator and production assistant in television production, photographer, journalist, and event organizer, and special effects consultant. Kristina is preparing another step, and do a full length movie. She is working on script for full length project.