Emerging Producers is an educational and networking program organized by the Jihlava IDFF. The festival selects 18 talented producers each year and provides them with extensive support throughout the year. After the first meeting during the Jihlava festival, the workshop continues in Berlin. This year, the Slovak Emerging Producer is Tomáš Gič.
Tomáš Gič received a Master’s degree in Film Production from the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava and also holds a Master’s degree in Law from Comenius University. He has produced numerous short films, including Pura Vida, which premiered at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival, and the short documentary In Shallow Water, which premiered at DOK Leipzig in 2021. As a producer at the production company Silverart, he produced the feature film Flood, directed by Martin Gonda, which was screened at the Mar del Plata IFF, where it received the SIGNIS Award. He is currently producing the documentary Glorious Utopia, directed by Marek Moučka. Tomáš Gič has participated in various international film workshops, including IDFAcademy, Midpoint Intensive SK, MFI Script 2 Film, Sources 2, and others. He is also a doctoral student at the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava and a member of the team of the FilmEU+ European Universities Alliance.
His producing feature debut, Flood, which was presented at the Mar del Plata IFF and IFFI Goa this past November, had a successful domestic distribution run, and just scored 9 nomination for the national The Sun in a Net Awards, is set in 1980 communist Czechoslovakia. Mara dreams of leaving her village to study in the city and become a pilot, but her father, a Ruthenian farmer and widower, insists she stays and works the land. As their village faces destruction because of a new water reservoir, their generational conflict intensifies, revealing the struggle between tradition, identity, and the desire for freedom against a backdrop of historical change.
His upcoming feature documentary Glorious Utopia observes the citizens and kings of the unofficial microstate Elgeland-Vargaland. Through the story of two aging kings and their encounters with real social events, the film explores topics of identity, power, and the meaning of borders in current world.
