Doc. Mgr. Anton Szomolányi, ArtD., cameraman and director He works at the Faculty of Mass Media PEVŠ as the head of the Department of Media Design. He graduated from FAMU in Prague, Film and Television Camera program. He has written 8 teaching and book publications focusing on the cinematographic picture, contributes to professional journals and lectures abroad. In his filmography he has many original documentaries, the realization of more than 80 commercials using high-end technology, on which he worked as a producer, cinematographer, screenwriter. As a cameraman, he also worked on large revue programs such as Golden Nightingale, MISS, Aurel. He also works as a program designer and as a methodologist has long been dedicated to non-professional creators. Throughout his professional life, he has worked as an independent filmmaker at home and abroad. In the 1990s, he devoted himself mainly to advertising, then to the creation of his own original documentaries, staged dance performances connected with film at the SĽUK Theater. As a university teacher in the position of associate professor, he currently works at the Pan-European University. He graduated from FAMU in Prague, Department of Film and Television Camera. During the years 1985 - 1990 he worked for several companies: Art centrum Praha - work on multi-visions, audio-visions and also on video clips for the gramophone publishing house Supraphon. He worked at Slovak Television as an external cameraman for documentary and fiction, and as a cameraman for Army Film as part of his basic military service. In the years 1990 - 2002 he was a freelance cameraman (collaboration with STV staffs, Short Film Prague, TV Titograd - Yugoslavia, Art Center Prague, collaboration on feature films in Germany, Austria and France). He has written 6 educational publications for students of film and multimedia, camera and documentary production, contributes to professional magazines and lectures abroad. In his filmography he has many documentaries, the realization of more than 80 commercials using high-end technology, on which he worked as a producer, cinematographer, screenwriter, CD-ROM presentation, production of multimedia stage programs. He also worked as a cameraman on large revue programs such as Golden Nightingale, MISS, Aurel and the like. Recently, these are mainly documentaries - The Story of a Cable Car, The History of Skiing, Looking Behind the Mirror, Guests - Hauerland, In the Shadow under Hindu Kush, directed by the film part of the multimedia theater performance Pictures from Slovakia and Chorea Slovaca (SĽUK), Okinawa - Slovakia, road karate and many others.

Maxim Melnyk Born in Uzhhorod, Ukraine in 1982. After working as a journalist in a regional television studio, he began studying film directing at the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava. Konrad Wolf continued his studies at Babelsberg Film University, where he specialized in directing documentaries. In 2020, he made his feature-length documentary "Schönborn", which depicts rural life in Brandenburg and his native Transcarpathia in Ukraine. Filmography: • 2013 „Old bricks“ bachelor film. Slovakia • 2015 „LandLines“ (wired telephones), Slovakia • 2019 „Räder für Poroschkowo“ (Bikes for Poroschkowo), Reportage, ARTE Re: (coauthor: Christiane Seiler) • 2020 „Schönborn“

Mgr. Michal Vrbňák He graduated from the Faculty of Education in Nitra, then the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava - Department of Editing. He works as a film and television editor, has worked for many years at Slovak Television as an editor of art trailers, documentaries, programs for children and young people and professional journalism, and he also edits live broadcasts. He worked externally as an editor of independent documentaries, as well as programs for Markíza and Joj television, where he also participated in the creation of the format of the most successful program Na Chalupe and was its long-term editor. He has been involved in the amateur film scene since 2001, when he worked as a methodologist for art, film and photography, later as a judge of amateur competitions and a lecturer in film workshops focused on editing. He is currently working on a project to digitize the national heritage at the Slovak Film Institute and is working externally on editing and visual editing.