Tereza Nvotová

Tereza Nvotová (born 22 January 1988) is a Slovak director and screenwriter. She is known for films such as Nightsiren (2022), Filthy (2017) and Lust for Power (2017). With her sophomore feature Nightsiren she won a Golden Leopard at Locarno Film Festival and Silver Melies at Sitges Film Festival. Her first feature Filthy won more than 20 awards at festivals worldwide, including Czech Film Critics Award for the best film and Czech Film Academy Award for the best editing. As a documentarian, she confronted corruption and politics in her HBO documentary Lust For Power or made a short for Czech Television "New York City in the Time of COVID-19". Tereza teaches students of direction at Prague film school FAMU. She is represented by UTA and lives in Prague and New York. In 2018, Forbes magazine had also ranked Tereza Nvotova among the 30 most influential people under 30 in Slovakia. She is a daughter of actress Anna Šišková and director Juraj Nvota.