Tereza Brdečková is a screenwriter and author. She studied film editing at the Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague and worked as a film critic. In 1992 she served as programme director of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, and later headed the programming of Febiofest – Prague International Film Festival. She writes both fiction and non-fiction, and her work explores hybrid genres and the relationship between documentary and fiction film. For Czech Television she created the oral-history series I Am Still Here (1997–2012), and she is the author of the documentary Jiří Trnka – A Long Lost Friend. Her family publishing house Limonádový Joe specialises, among other things, in books on cinema. She teaches screenwriting at FAMU. She has sat on dozens of FIPRESCI juries, including Cannes, Berlin and Locarno.