She-Hero
TITLE
She-Hero
DIRECTOR
Mira Fornay
COUNTRY
Slovakia
YEAR
2023
DURATION
83′
GENRE
Adventure, Family
She-Hero
While Romy – 7 years old – is looking for her lost budgie Mimi, she finds much more along her way – an adventure and new friends.
DIRECTOR BIOGRAPHY - Mira Fornay
Mira Fornay is mainly film author who made 3 feature films,14 shorts and 1 TV feature film. She studies film directing at FAMU, Prague and NFTS, United Kingdom. Her second film, My Dog Killer (2013) won the main Tiger Hivos Award of the main competition at Rotterdam IFF in 2013 with Aiweiwei the head of the jury. The film was selected over 80 international film festivals and among other in- ternational prizes won the CineVision Award at Munich IFF, best director IFF Vilnius, IFF Zerkalo etc. It was nominatad for EFA awards and was slovac national entry for foreigner oscars. It won national film awards “Slnko v Sieti” for best the script, best director, best film. Foxes (2009) – her feature debut, premiered at International Critic‘s Week, Venice Film Festival 2009 and it went to top world festivals tour as well as her 3rd feature film Cook, F**k, Kill which premiered at Rebel with a Cause at Tallin BlackNights fIFF and IFF Rotterdam 2020 The film won recently CineRebel prize at Filmfest Munich. Her 4th feature She- Hero premiered at Berlinale 2023 and won Grand Prix Kplus Generation (kids and youth section). At the same time, Mira is writing a new feature 2052 - Rabbit Privelege about forced parenthood and the anti-abortion wave across Western part of the world.
- DirectorMira Fornay
- ScreenplayMira Fornay
- CinematographySIMONA WEISSLECHNER
- EditingMira Fornay
- CastROZMARÍNA WILLEMS, CYPRIÁN ŠULEJ, VERONIKA KOŘÍNKOVÁ, DAGMAR KUSÁ, ROMAN LIPKA, BOHUSLAV ZÁRYCHTA, MARGITA MRVOVÁ, MÁRIA FORNAYOVÁ, EMIL ŠTVRTECKÝ, MIRO ČEVELA ML., JOZEF RENÁČ, JAZMÍNA CIGÁNKOVÁ, KLÁRKA KOŘÍNKOVÁ NIKOLAS PÉTEŠ
- Producer/sMira Fornay, ZUZANA CZAKOVÁ
- Production CompanyMIRAFOX
- Distributor/sMIRAFOX
- Project TitleShe-Hero
- Project TypeAdventure, Family
- Completion Date January 1, 2023
- Country of origin Slovakia
- Country of filming Slovakia
- LanguageEnglish, German, Slovak
- First-time Filmmaker No
- Student Project No
Stephan Komandarev
Mira Fornay is mainly film author who made 3 feature films,14 shorts and 1 TV feature film. She studies film directing at FAMU, Prague and NFTS, United Kingdom. Her second film, My Dog Killer (2013) won the main Tiger Hivos Award of the main competition at Rotterdam IFF in 2013 with Aiweiwei the head of the jury. The film was selected over 80 international film festivals and among other in- ternational prizes won the CineVision Award at Munich IFF, best director IFF Vilnius, IFF Zerkalo etc. It was nominatad for EFA awards and was slovac national entry for foreigner oscars. It won national film awards “Slnko v Sieti” for best the script, best director, best film. Foxes (2009) – her feature debut, premiered at International Critic‘s Week, Venice Film Festival 2009 and it went to top world festivals tour as well as her 3rd feature film Cook, F**k, Kill which premiered at Rebel with a Cause at Tallin BlackNights fIFF and IFF Rotterdam 2020 The film won recently CineRebel prize at Filmfest Munich. Her 4th feature She- Hero premiered at Berlinale 2023 and won Grand Prix Kplus Generation (kids and youth section). At the same time, Mira is writing a new feature 2052 - Rabbit Privelege about forced parenthood and the anti-abortion wave across Western part of the world.
