HEART OF EUROPE CO-PRODUCTIONS

Heart of Europe Media Ltd. can look back to over 25 successful years of international co-production. In 1977 Michael Havas convinced TV New Zealand to co-produce with Czechoslovakia and has since worked with networks and private companies in Australia, Austria, France, Germany, Holland, Switzerland, the UK, and the USA.

Language skills, global contacts and technical versatility have resulted in a rich palette of programmes - ranging from TV documentaries to animation, from world-music festivals to multi-media programmes, from children’s´ programmes to interactive CDs.

Artists and writers with whom Havas has worked include Axel Corti, Michael Frayn, Peter Gabriel, Josef Svoboda, Jan Švankmajer, Ctibor Turba, Sir Peter Ustinov and others.

If you are looking for quality, dependability and a world vision we can help.

 
2000 WOMAD IN PRAGUE TV 1 Hour Programme
Co-producer
1-hour TV documentary on the WOMAD festival in Prague, Sept 2000
DOP Vladimir Holomek
Directed by Rudolf Vodrážka
A Czech TV - Heart of Europe Media - WOMAD Ltd (UK) co-production

 

WOMAD Go Praha (September 15th-17th)
Festival Director
Co-Producer
Promoter of the first WOMAD festival in a former communist country.
Under the auspices of President Václav Havel
In co-operation with City Hall, Prague
An official Prague European City of the Year 2000 programme
134 artists from 24 countries.

 

1996 SPEARS - THE GOLDEN DECADE OF JAN ŽELEZNÝ 58 min Colour BETACAM
Scenario
Director
Co-Producer
Czech TV Prague/Heart of Europe Prague 
Omnicron Productions Auckland
Cultural Essay on the Javelin as an Instrument of War and a Symbol of Peace, as seen through the eyes of double Olympic gold medallist and world record-holder, Jan Zelezny.
CZECH REP/NEW ZEALAND

 

MTV IDENT 15 secs Colour 35mm
Co-Producer
MTV Europe
Ident written, designed and directed by Jiří Barta
UK/CZECH REP

 

1994 TV SPOT 10 sec Colour 35mm
Co-Producer
NEW YORK CARES Day
Chiat Agency New York/Heart of Europe Prague
Object animation
Directed by Bedřich Glaser
USA/CZECH REP

 

FAUST 90 min Colour 35mm
Co-Producer
Heart of Europe Prague/Lumen Films Paris
Koninck International London/Pandora Films Frankfurt
BBC Bristol/Athanor Prague
Full Length Object Animation combined with Live Action feature on the Faust Legend
Starring Petr Čepek
English version featuring Andrew Sachs
Written and Directed by Jan Svankmajer
GB/FRANCE/GERMANY/CZECH REP

 

1993 3M MAGIC 10 min Colour 35mm
Co-Producer
Condor Features Zürich/Heart of Europe Prague
Essayistic PR promo for 3M
SWITZERLAND/CZECH REP

 

THE MAGIC LANTERN 1 Hour Colour BETACAM
Researcher
Co-Producer
BBC/Koninck International London
Rainer Moritz München/Heart of Europe Prague
Cultural Essay on Prague
Written by Michael Frayn
Directed by Dennis Marks
GB/GERMANY/CZECH REP

 

1992 CONVERSATIONS 3 x 1 min Colour 35mm
Co-Producer
(Big Pictures San Francisco / MTV New York / Heart of Europe Prague)
Cell Animation, Object Animation, Pixillation
Appeal against consumerism
Written and Directed by Pavel Koutsky
USA/CZECH REP

 

DIAGNOSIS 30 sec Colour 35mm
Co-Producer
(MTV Europe / Heart of Europe Prague)
Cell Animation - ecological appeal
Written and Directed by Pavel Koutský
GB/CZECH REP

 

FOOD 17 min Colour 35mm
Co-Producer
Channel 4 / Koninck International London / Heart of Europe Prague
Object Animation and Pixillation - Surrealist vision of consumerism
Written and Directed by Jan Svankmajer
GB/CZECH REP

 

1990 THE DEATH OF STALINISM IN BOHEMIA 11 min Colour 35mm
Co-Producer
(BBC / Nomad Films / Koninck International London)
Object animation: a personal history of Stalinism in Bohemia
Written and directed by Jan Svankmajer
GB/GERMANY/CZECH REP

 

LIQUID ROCK 6 x 30 min BETACAM + 16mm
Scenario
Director
(ARD / Ravensburger Film + TV / Nomad Films / CS Filmexport) 
Dramatised feature documentary on the cultural history of concrete.
Starring Sir Peter Ustinov
W. GERMANY/AUSTRALIA/CZECH REP

 

1979 SCHLITZOHR  10 x 20 min Video + 35mm
Scenario
Co-Producer
(ZDF / Nomad Films)
Children’s series, starring Boris Hybner 
Written and directed by Martin Hoffmeister
W. GERMANY/CSSR

 

LA TRAVERSEE DU DESSERT 90 min Delayed Telecast
Co-Producer
(ARD-Hessischer Rundfunk / Nomad Films)
International Clown Programme
Written and directed by Ctibor Turba
W. GERMANY/CSSR

 

THE SONS OF TU MATA UENGA 52 min Colour 16mm
Scenario
Director
(Condor Films Zürich - Czech TV - Michael Havas) 
Documentary on pilgrimage tour of the battle-fields of World War II by the 28th Maori Battalion from New Zealand - filmed on location in New Zealand, Greece, Crete, Egypt, Israel, Turkey, Tunis, Italy and England.
SWITZERLAND/CSSR

 

1977 ONCE UPON AN ISLAND 56 min Colour 16mm
Scenario
Director
(TV New Zealand - FAMU - Michael Havas) Documentary Essay on the Battle for Crete, shot on location in New Zealand, Crete, Western Germany.
NEW ZEALAND/CSSR