MAREK LEŠČÁK

screenwriter

Marek Leščák was born in 1971 in Bratislava. He currently teaches at the Film and Television Faculty of the Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts (FTF VŠMU) in the Dramaturgy and Screenwriting Studio. Holder of two Slovak National Film Awards – Sun in the Net – for scripts for The City of Sun and Blind Loves. Holder of Czech Film Award – Czech Lion – for the script for The Garden. Laureate of the 2011 Tatrabanka Award for the script for The Gypsy. Member of the Slovak Film and Television Academy, Czech Film and Television Academy and European Film Academy (EFA). He wrote or co-wrote the scripts of many successful films awarded at prestigious festivals home and abroad.

SCRIPTS OF FEATURE FILMS:

1995 The Garden
dir. Martin Šulík (full-length feature film)

1997 Orbis pictus
dir. Martin Šulík (full-length feature film)

1998 Prague As Seen By..., episode – Pictures from a Trip
dir. Martin Šulík

2004 Vision of Europe, one of the stories
dir. Martin Šulík

2005 The City of Sun
dir. Martin Šulík (full-length feature film)

2009 Thanks, Fine
dir. Mátyás Prikler (medium-length feature film)

2011 The Gypsy
dir. Martin Šulík (full-length feature film)

2012 Made in Ash
dir. Iveta Grófová (full-length feature film)

2013 Thanks, Fine
dir. Mátyás Prikler (full-length feature film)

2013 The Miracle
dir. Juraj Lehotský (full-length feature film)

SCRIPTS OF DOCUMENTARIES:

2005 Here We Are
dir. Jaro Vojtek

2008 Blind Loves
dir. Juraj Lehotský

2009 The Border
dir. Jaro Vojtek

2010 Ilja
dir. Ivan Ostrochovský