Marta Kubišová (born 1942) has been an iconic figure of Czech cultural and political life since the 1960s, even though the Communist authorities banned her from performing publicly between 1970 and 1989. Kubišová’s singing career commenced in theaters in 1962 and she quickly rose to stardom, particularly as a member of the Golden Kids trio (with Václav Neckář and Helena Vondráčková).
Pete Seeger (born 1919) - Artist, activist, banjoman and teacher Pete Seeger has dedicated his life to sharing his music with the world. Born to a family of musicians and nurtured by his contemporaries Alan Lomax and Woody Guthrie, Seeger found a deep source of inspiration in the folk music of America in the 1930’s and 1940’s.
Hana Hegerová has been a crucial figure in Czech and European cultural life for decades. Best known as the leading Czechoslovak exponent of the last flowering of chanson and cabaret song in the 1960s, she has also had a lengthy association with the world of cinema both as a dramatic actress and a musical contributor.
Well-known for his long and legendary career as a musician, composer and improviser, Fred Frith has also attained rare distinction in his work in the field of film. He was the subject of the acclaimed portrait film, “Step Across the Border” (1990), often regarded as one of the most important music documentaries in decades.
A widely recognized leader in the study of African-American music and folkways, Faulkner’s Mississippi, and race relations in the American South, William Ferris is a prolific writer, folklorist and documentary filmmaker. Ferris has conducted thousands of interviews with musicians over the course of a distinguished career spanning almost four decades, ranging from the famous (B.B. King and James “Son” Thomas) to the unrecognized (churchgoers, barbershop philosophers, penitentiary inmates and countless others).
As part of its continuing dedication to honoring the pioneers of Czech music cinema, MOFFOM presents a tribute to the forgotten master of the popular Czechoslovak musicals of the 1960s, Ladislav Rychman. Ladislav Rychman first entered the arena of the music film in the 1950s, directing several short documentaries on traditional Czech folk subjects, ranging from the iconoclastic bagpipe musician and scholar Josef Režný and authentic village Moravian string bands to the large organized dance ensembles of the era.
Simon Broughton is a leading independent television director based in London. He worked for many years at the BBC, first in radio and then later in television, shooting adventurous and provocative music films in locales ranging from Transylvania to Afghanistan.
Julien Temple was first drawn to the film medium through an early fascination with the British pop music films of the 1960s. He became fascinated with the visual style of the emerging punk culture while a film student in London, and made a sensational directorial debut with “The Great Rock ‘n Roll Swindle“ (1979), a sprawling, anarchic and legendary account of the meteoric rise and disintegration of the Sex Pistols, dubbed the “Citizen Kane of rock movies” and “the most imaginative use of a rock group since The Beatles debuted in A Hard Day‘s Night.“
Larry Weinstein is Canada's foremost director of documentaries on musical subjects, working around the world in cooperation with Toronto's Rhombus Media and in co-production with practically all major international broadcasters. His films on the lives of 20th Century composers (including Maurice Ravel, Arnold Schoenberg, Joaquin Rodrigo, Kurt Weill and Dmitri Shostakovich) have generated enormous interest, winning prizes and delighting audiences worldwide.
Albert Maysles has been one of the leading figures in international cinema since the 1960s. Along with his brother David (1931-1987) he was a pioneer of "Direct Cinema" and a strictly realist approach to the documentary film based in the principles of non-intervention and a deeply felt humanism.
No filmmaker is as closely associated with the punk movement as Don Letts, who began documenting early Clash and Sex Pistols gigs on 8mm and put together the seminal The Punk Rock Movie in 1978. An author, DJ and founding member of the cinema-sampling '80s band Big Audio Dynamite, Letts won a Grammy for the 2003 Clash doc Westway to the World and has also made films on Bob Marley, Sun Ra, George Clinton and Franz Ferdinand.
Henry hills is a student of avant-garde film legend George Kuchar at the San Francisco Art Institute, Henry Hills has been drawn to the intensely rhythmic possibilities of film editing since the beginning of his 30-plus year career. He was closely associated with the improvisational Downtown music scene in late-1970s New York and has frequently collaborated with one of its pillars, John Zorn, who starred in Hills' classic short Money.
Ján Roháč (1932-1980) was a notable product of the cultural synthesis made possible by the relative openness of 1960s Prague. Drawn to the possibilities of mixing music, theater and film, he worked closely with the famous Semafor Theater during its heyday under the dynamic leadership of Jiří Šlitr and Jiří Suchý (whose songs feature in Roháč's best-known film, 1964's Kdyby tisíc klarinetů) and produced a series of visually playful television shorts that can be seen today as precursors of the music video.
Ron Mann is an award-winning filmmaker and counterculture stalwart, who has been documenting and dissecting alternative culture for almost thirty years. His documentaries often focus on the role of dissent and outsiders within the broad panorama of popular culture.
Allan Miller is one of the most highly esteemed documentary filmmakers specializing in the field of classical music. He was instrumental in the production of two Academy Award-winning films: as the artistic advisor for "From Mao to Mozart: Isaac Stern in China" in 1979, and as the producer of "Bolero" in 1973. His film "Small Wonders," about a divorced mother who developed violin programs in three East Harlem schools, was also nominated for an Academy Award.
Marta Kubišová (born 1942) has been an iconic figure of Czech cultural and political life since the 1960s, even though the Communist authorities banned her from performing publicly between 1970 and 1989. Kubišová’s singing career commenced in theaters in 1962 and she quickly rose to stardom, particularly as a member of the Golden Kids trio (with Václav Neckář and Helena Vondráčková). 
Pete Seeger (born 1919) - Artist, activist, banjoman and teacher Pete Seeger has dedicated his life to sharing his music with the world. Born to a family of musicians and nurtured by his contemporaries Alan Lomax and Woody Guthrie, Seeger found a deep source of inspiration in the folk music of America in the 1930’s and 1940’s. 
Hana Hegerová has been a crucial figure in Czech and European cultural life for decades. Best known as the leading Czechoslovak exponent of the last flowering of chanson and cabaret song in the 1960s, she has also had a lengthy association with the world of cinema both as a dramatic actress and a musical contributor. 
Well-known for his long and legendary career as a musician, composer and improviser, Fred Frith has also attained rare distinction in his work in the field of film. He was the subject of the acclaimed portrait film, “Step Across the Border” (1990), often regarded as one of the most important music documentaries in decades. 
A widely recognized leader in the study of African-American music and folkways, Faulkner’s Mississippi, and race relations in the American South, William Ferris is a prolific writer, folklorist and documentary filmmaker. Ferris has conducted thousands of interviews with musicians over the course of a distinguished career spanning almost four decades, ranging from the famous (B.B. King and James “Son” Thomas) to the unrecognized (churchgoers, barbershop philosophers, penitentiary inmates and countless others). 
As part of its continuing dedication to honoring the pioneers of Czech music cinema, MOFFOM presents a tribute to the forgotten master of the popular Czechoslovak musicals of the 1960s, Ladislav Rychman. Ladislav Rychman first entered the arena of the music film in the 1950s, directing several short documentaries on traditional Czech folk subjects, ranging from the iconoclastic bagpipe musician and scholar Josef Režný and authentic village Moravian string bands to the large organized dance ensembles of the era. 
Simon Broughton is a leading independent television director based in London. He worked for many years at the BBC, first in radio and then later in television, shooting adventurous and provocative music films in locales ranging from Transylvania to Afghanistan. 
Julien Temple was first drawn to the film medium through an early fascination with the British pop music films of the 1960s. He became fascinated with the visual style of the emerging punk culture while a film student in London, and made a sensational directorial debut with “The Great Rock ‘n Roll Swindle“ (1979), a sprawling, anarchic and legendary account of the meteoric rise and disintegration of the Sex Pistols, dubbed the “Citizen Kane of rock movies” and “the most imaginative use of a rock group since The Beatles debuted in A Hard Day‘s Night.“ 
Larry Weinstein is Canada's foremost director of documentaries on musical subjects, working around the world in cooperation with Toronto's Rhombus Media and in co-production with practically all major international broadcasters. His films on the lives of 20th Century composers (including Maurice Ravel, Arnold Schoenberg, Joaquin Rodrigo, Kurt Weill and Dmitri Shostakovich) have generated enormous interest, winning prizes and delighting audiences worldwide. 
Albert Maysles has been one of the leading figures in international cinema since the 1960s. Along with his brother David (1931-1987) he was a pioneer of "Direct Cinema" and a strictly realist approach to the documentary film based in the principles of non-intervention and a deeply felt humanism. 
No filmmaker is as closely associated with the punk movement as Don Letts, who began documenting early Clash and Sex Pistols gigs on 8mm and put together the seminal The Punk Rock Movie in 1978. An author, DJ and founding member of the cinema-sampling '80s band Big Audio Dynamite, Letts won a Grammy for the 2003 Clash doc Westway to the World and has also made films on Bob Marley, Sun Ra, George Clinton and Franz Ferdinand. 
Henry hills is a student of avant-garde film legend George Kuchar at the San Francisco Art Institute, Henry Hills has been drawn to the intensely rhythmic possibilities of film editing since the beginning of his 30-plus year career. He was closely associated with the improvisational Downtown music scene in late-1970s New York and has frequently collaborated with one of its pillars, John Zorn, who starred in Hills' classic short Money. 
Ján Roháč (1932-1980) was a notable product of the cultural synthesis made possible by the relative openness of 1960s Prague. Drawn to the possibilities of mixing music, theater and film, he worked closely with the famous Semafor Theater during its heyday under the dynamic leadership of Jiří Šlitr and Jiří Suchý (whose songs feature in Roháč's best-known film, 1964's Kdyby tisíc klarinetů) and produced a series of visually playful television shorts that can be seen today as precursors of the music video. 
Ron Mann is an award-winning filmmaker and counterculture stalwart, who has been documenting and dissecting alternative culture for almost thirty years. His documentaries often focus on the role of dissent and outsiders within the broad panorama of popular culture. 
Allan Miller is one of the most highly esteemed documentary filmmakers specializing in the field of classical music. He was instrumental in the production of two Academy Award-winning films: as the artistic advisor for "From Mao to Mozart: Isaac Stern in China" in 1979, and as the producer of "Bolero" in 1973. His film "Small Wonders," about a divorced mother who developed violin programs in three East Harlem schools, was also nominated for an Academy Award. 
