"The new adaptation of the fairy tale Proud princess seemed like a good and bold idea from the beginning. I've done several adaptations of the original film to the stage. More precisely, to the stage of puppet theatre. In this case, though, it is not theatre, but a new retelling of a feature film over sixty years old with animated characters using the latest technology.
Such a meeting of a substance that we all know from our childhood, that we love uncritically, that is part of our most personal memories, with modern, contemporary, for some perhaps impersonal 3D animation, is a great challenge."
David LISÝ
director
David Lisý is an experienced director, animator, storyboarder - he has been working on animated films, series and commercials for over 20 years. For adults and children. He has extensive experience in directing, 2D, 3D and puppet animation, scriptwriting, writing, dramaturgy.
He has worked on the animated series Booba, Luke and Lucy, Marnie's world is a film by Oscar-winning directors, as well as on the feature film Journey to Impossibility, Blue Tiger, Fimfarum Reason and Happiness, Alois Nebel - the film won the Czech Lion in the Best Art Achievement section. He has also collaborated on the films True Štúr, Hurvínek a magical museum and on the TV series TvMiniUni: The Question Thief and European Pexeso, a TV series and film for children called Websters.
Martin HANSCHILD
visual artist
Martin Hanschild (1982) graduated from the Faculty of Humanities and Natural Sciences in Prešov, majoring in Teaching of General Education in Art Education. For two years he worked as a teacher at the Secondary School of Performing Arts in Bratislava. He also worked as a 2D graphic designer and composer in Studio Mirage. He worked as a composer in the film Alois Nebel. Even now he works as a composer, doing art design, character design, matte painting for Incognito Studio, Eallin Motion Art, Magiclab s.r.o. and Czech Television.
Ondřej BRZOBOHATÝ
music
At the primary art school in Biskupská he learned to play the violin and piano. He graduated from the Jaroslav Ježek Conservatory in composition, piano and conducting. He studied film music and orchestration privately with composer Milan Kymlicka.
He played in the band Bůhví, with which he released four albums. He has contributed to albums by Sámer Issa, Dara Rolins, Hana Zagorová, Helena Vondráčková, Karel Gott and Helena Zet'ova. Together with the lyricist Petr Uličný, they created fifteen songs for Richard Müller's album 55. In Horáček's lyrical Kudykam he was responsible for the musical arrangements and dramaturgy of the songs. Together with Jiří Hubač and Pavel Vrba he wrote the musical I, Francois Villon. With the Slovak poet and librettist Ľubomír Feldek, he created the musical Cyrano, which was performed at the Radek Brzobohatý Theatre. In 2018, he composed a musical for the Karlín Music Theatre, The Legend of Holmes, starring Vojtěch Dyke. He has also composed film music for films such as Angel of the Lord 2, Eight, Fear in the lead role and the Labyrinth series.
Ondřej BROUSEK
music
After studying at the Music and Drama Department of the Conservatory in Prague, he began to work at the Theatre Na Fidlovačka as an actor, soon also as a composer and later as a director. He created dozens of roles there (e.g. Kristian in Cyrano of Bergerac, Thyl Ulenspiegel, The Robber, Andrej in The Three Sisters, etc.).
Since 2013, he has been a member of the ensemble of the Vinohrady Theatre, where he has played a number of important roles (Andrive in Frisch's Andorra, Amadeus, Caligula, Peer Gynt, The Reviser, Sancho Panza in Dyk's The Wise Don Quixote). He also actively composes for this theatre (about 20 works, including six symphonic suites).
He has written music for five original musicals: Carmen (2003), The Jungle Book (2007), Adele Has Not Yet Dined (2008), Marilyn-the Beautiful Child (2013) and The Bride (2013). On the last four musicals he collaborated with Radek Balas. His incidental music includes around eighty compositions written for Prague and regional Czech theatre scenes.
He has also written two symphonies, the ballet Bouquet, Golden Age Rhapsody - a composition for symphony orchestra and big band, symphonic poems and suites, and collaborates with leading performers and conductors (Jan Kučera, Epoque Quartet, SOČR, FOK, Janáček Philharmonic Ostrava, Hradec Králové Philharmonic, Karlovy Vary Symphony Orchestra, Martinů Voices, Radek Baborák, Pavel Šporcl, Miroslav Sekera, Adam Plachetka, Vladimír Válek, Tomáš Netopil, Marko Ivanovič, Tomáš Brauner and others).
Arranging and instrumentation play an equally important role in Ondřej's musical life. His new arrangements have appeared in the musicals Painted on Glass, The Divotvorny Pot, Funny Girl, Song for Two, My Fair Lady and Legend of Holmes.
He works closely with O. G. Brzobohatý and also with the B-Side Band and Vojtěch Dyke.
Since 1999 he has been a member of the band Monkey Business, which has ten albums under its belt. The band has maintained its reputation from the very beginning, many awards are proof of that.
