The Ethics Committee of the Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (FAMU) is an advisory body to the Dean and the ombud of FAMU in Prague. It addresses submissions that it receives in the event of suspicion that the Code of Ethics has been violated. The members of the Ethics Committee are impartial and independent persons. They possess expertise in the fields of law, ethics, psychology, social work and other relevant areas. The Committee has five members whose term of office is three years.
The Ethics is governed by the FAMU Code of Ethics, Dean’s Decree No. 10/2024 and the Rules of Procedure of the Ethics Committee, Dean’s Decree No. 11/2024.
An employee of the Institute of Sociology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, National Contact Centre for Gender & Science since 2021, focusing on the topics of protecting the safety and dignity of people employed in the academic environment, equal opportunities and fair working conditions in research. Under the STRATIN+ project, she provides support to government administration in the drafting and implementation of public policies in research, development and innovation. In her own research, she explores the interactions between the law and society and gender implications of regulation by law. She graduated from Charles University in law and gender studies and worked at the Office of the Government of the Czech Republic and the Ministry of Justice in the past.
Reasons for recommendation: She was involved in the drafting of the FAMU Code of Ethics and the Rules of Procedure; has legal education and scientific and academic experience; and has been focusing on the topic of equality.
Graduated from a higher vocational school and from the Protestant Theological Faculty, Charles University in social work as well as from the Faculty of Humanities, Charles University in gender studies. From 2000 on, she worked in social services and non-profit organisations. She was a crisis responder at Život 90 and Safety Line, a project coordinator at the Czech Women’s Union and Otevřená společnost. From 2014 to 2023, she worked at Gender Studies o.p.s., taking part in projects focused on the labour market and equal opportunities. She is interested in gender-sensitive HR management, age management. She is a gender auditor and is currently training in equal remuneration (LOGIB). Since 2021, she has been an Academy of Fine Arts employee as the Head of the Gender Equality, Inclusion and Diversity Section (‘GRID’). She was a member of AGE Platform Europe and has been the Vice-Chair of the Gender Expert Chamber since 2018.
Reasons for recommendation: Experience with the ombud agenda; experience with working at an art school; education in social work and crisis intervention; focus on the topics of equality and diversity. She took part in the drafting of the Gender Equality Plan (GEP) at AMU.
He works as an attorney and an assistant professor at the Protestant Theological Faculty of Charles University, teaching law to social workers. He is a member of the Charles University Equal Opportunities Board and the Committee for the Prevention of Domestic Violence and Violence against Women, an advisory body to the Government Council for Gender Equality. He was awarded the Genderman of the Year 2023 title in the Public Personality category for contributing a rational, expert and experience-based perspective in the discussion on gender-based violence. He graduated from the Faculty of Law, Charles University in Law and Legal Science, Public Law I and European Law; from the Protestant Theological Faculty, Charles University in Theology of Christian Traditions; and from the University of Cambridge (Hughes Hall), Master of Law in International Law.
Reasons for recommendation: attorney experience; focus on gender-based violence and freedom of religion combined with theological education; a publicly outspoken and respected personality.
Graduated from the Faculty of Arts, Charles University in single-subject psychology, studied at the University in Nîmes, and completed full-range training in crisis intervention and psychodynamic integrative psychotherapy at the Skála Institute (where he also trains future psychotherapists in ethics topics). He is currently taking another psychotherapeutic course in biosynthesis. He is a regular member of the Czech Association for Psychotherapy, taking part in handling submissions related to ethics and preparing ethics-focused events for experts as a member of the Ethics Collegium. He contemplates ethics primarily in terms of supporting the meaningfulness and cultivating the ethics awareness on an everyday basis, perceiving ethics norms (both spoken and unspoken) as one of the primary cornerstones of safe environment for all the stakeholders.
Reasons for recommendation: education in psychology and psychotherapy, membership of the Ethics Collegium of the CAP
Graduated from FAMU (2012) and completed educational programmes at the film schools of CCC in Mexico City, La Fémis in France and the Filmakademie Baden‑Württemberg in Germany. She is an alumna of the EAVE, Producers on the Move, Dok incubator and Ex oriente programmes. She is the Czech co-producer of Marko Škop’s feature debut Eva Nová (FIPRESCI award at the Toronto IFF 2015, five Slnko v sieti awards from the Slovak Film Academy including the Best Film Award). As a producer, she focuses primarily on documentary films produced by her company CINEPOINT and often in international co-productions. Many of these films were featured and won awards at major international film festivals such as IDFA, Visions du Réel, Tallinn Black Nights, Vancouver IFF, Sheffield DocFest, Jihlava IDFF etc. She is a member of the Ethics Committee of the Audiovisual Producers’ Association and of the Documentary Association of Europe international group.
Reasons for recommendation: FAMU alumna active in her field, member of the Ethics Committee of the Audiovisual Producers’ Association.