M.O.
A story of a lonely grandmother who orders a robotic grandfather to be delivered to make her days more diverse. The Magnesia Award for the best student film of 2012 and a student Oscar nomination.
- Czech Republic
- 2012, 7 min
- Director: Jakub Kouřil
- Director of photography: Aleš Lněnička
- Editor: Roman Tesáček
- Screenplay: Jakub Kouřil
- Music: Marek Gabriel Hruška
- Cast: Viera Pavlíková
- Producer: Jakub Kouřil, Barbora Příkaská
- Production: Studio FAMU
Jakub Kouřil
Jakub Kouřil (1987) graduated from the Faculty of Multimedia Communication at the Tomas Bata University in Zlin with major in Animation and Audiovison. After six months of internship at the prestigious ENSAD (École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs) in Paris, where he also focused on animation, he went on to the Film and TV School of Performing Arts in Prague, getting a master’s in animation. M.O. (2012) is his fourth short film. Another picture of his, Little Costeau (Malý Costeau, 2012) was awarded the Magnesia Award at the annual Czech Lion film award ceremony.