Vladimír Balko (b. 1965) graduated from the School of Economics and studied film and TV journalism in Bratislava. From 1988 to 1996 he was employed by Slovak Television as an editor, script adviser, director and producer. He works with a number of production companies on a variety of entertainment and current affairs programmes and TV features. He was involved in the documentary series Redline, Time for Teens and Hope for Children with No Childhood; his documentary Seeking a Nanny, Password Agent Orange from this series won an award at the 38th Academia Film Olomouc festival of documentary films. In his series of portraits The Dozen for Markíza TV he filmed profiles of Martin Hollý, Jarmila Hargašová and Jozef Bednárik, among others. He has also made various award-winning music videos, the series Between You and Me for Markíza TV and several parts of the popular Slovak serial Prefab on TV Joj. The film Soul at Peace is his feature film debut.
MFF Karlovy Vary
