THE PRECIOUS GIFT

The Precious Gift is a long animated film project by the author and director Lenka Ivančíková. Her previous film, First Snow, won 15 prestigious awards at world festivals and drew interest and expectations of European producers regarding the author’s new project. PG was presented at Cartoon Springboard, Cartoon Movie, and Animation Production Day, where it gained both expressions of interest in collaboration and valuable feedback upon which the current development of the project is based.

Among the prominent personalities involved in the project is the acclaimed British screenwriter and lecturer Barbara Slade working here a as a co-author. PG tells a story of a girl who wants to get her father back. It will take us into a mysterious forest and reveal to us the mystery of the birth of love and friendship.

Author and director: Lenka Ivančíková
Art designer: Andy Kehoe, Barbora Valecká
Scriptwriter: Lucie Konášová

Producer: Animation people – Michal Podhradsky (CZ)
Coproducers: JPL Films (FR), Animoon (PL), Novinski films (SK), Doghouse (LX)

: Pratele z tajemneho lesa – Precious gift

The project was implemented with the financial participation of the EU through the National Recovery Plan (NPO) and the Ministry of Culture (MK).