Links

Projects
Journey to Rome

Programs
MIDPOINT Shorts 2011
MIDPOINT Dramaturgy In The Editing Room 2014
MIDPOINT Feature Launch 2015
MIDPOINT Feature Launch 2021

News
10 YEARS OF MIDPOINT: JOURNEY TO ROME
Feature Launch reveals the 2021 generation and introduces new program scheme
Feature Launch kicks off online
Workshop 1 of Feature Launch 2021 takes off this week
Feature Launch 2021 participants start their second workshop today
Leave No Traces in Venezia 78 Competition

Biography

Mikulas Novotny co-founded Background Films in 2012, debuting as a producer with Tomasz Mielnik's spiritual comedy “Journey to Rome” and a short documentary “Resort”, both competing at Karlovy Vary IFF 2015. He graduated from Producing (FAMU) and Theory of Interactive Media (Masaryk University). He is an EAVE Producers Workshop graduate (2018) and the Czech EFP Producer on The Move (2020). He has since produced Czech New Wave legend Karel Vachek's six-hour film essay “Communism and the Net or the End of Representative Democracy” (IFF Rotterdam 2020) as well as numerous shorts of exceptional emerging authors from the Czech film and visual-arts environment. Mikulas is currently co-producing Jan P. Matuszynski's “Leave No Traces” and developing a slate of feature films including Mielnik's ambitious period comedy “Gregorius, The Chosen One”.