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PRAGUE JEWISH STUDIES
Lukas Pribyl
(born 24.08.1973)
EDUCATION
2007 – 2008
M.A.
2006 – 2007
1997 – 1998
B.A.
1992 – 1996
PAIDEIA INSTITUTE, Stockholm, Sweden
 Amalie Beer Fellowship
CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY, Budapest, Hungary
 Thesis: „With distinction“; CEU scholarship; Academic Pro-Rector’s Excellence
Award
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, New York, United States
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, Waltham, Massachusetts, United States
 majors: Politics
 Summa Cum Laude; thesis – „Highest Honors”; Phi Beta Kappa Honors Society;
„Dean‘s List” all semesters; Elsie Witt Award; Wien International Scholarship
HIGH SCHOOL
1991 – 1992 PHILLIPS ACADEMY ANDOVER, Andover, Massachusetts, United States
 Cum Laude Society; „Honor Roll” all trimesters
 The Phillips Academy Academic Scholarship; Charter 77 Foundation scholarship
1987 – 1991
GYMNÁZIUM NA ZATLANCE, Prague, Czech Republic
 Highest Honors (Maturita s vyznamenáním)
nám. Jana Palacha 2, 116 38 Praha
Czech Republic
Tel.: (+420) 221 619 802
Fax: (+420) 221 619 382
[email protected]
http://praguejewishstudies.ff.cuni.cz
PRAGUE JEWISH STUDIES
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2010 – 2011
DIRECTOR
EUROPEAN SHOAH LEGACY INSTITUTE
2009 – 2010
ADVISOR ON THE EUROPEAN SHOAH LEGACY INSTITUTE
MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS OF THE CZECH REPUBLIC
1999 – 2009
PRODUCER, DIRECTOR, SCREENWRITER, RESEARCHER
 “FORGOTTEN TRANSPORTS” FILM SERIES – four feature-length
documentary movies (4 x 90 minutes – edited from over 400 hours of material
filmed in twenty countries)
 Films: To Latvia (2007) ; To Belarus (2008); To Estonia (2008); To Poland
(2009)
 AWARDS: CZECH ACADEMY AWARDS (Czech Lion) in the category of
BEST DOCUMENTARY FILM; CZECH ACADEMY AWARDS (Czech
Lion) - FILM CRITICS’ AWARD FOR BEST CZECH DOCUMENTARY;
KOUTECKY AWARD – SPECIAL AWARD BY THE JURY FOR BEST
DOCUMENTARY; Nominated for the SILVER EYE AWARD for the BEST
CENTRAL AND EAST EUROPEAN DOCUMENTARY; AUDIENCE
AWARD - One World Human Rights FF 2009; BEST CZECH POPULAR
SCIENCE DOCUMENTARY - Academia Film Olomouc FF; DĚJINY A
SOUČASNOST MAGAZINE AWARD FOR BEST CZECH HISTORY
DOCUMENTARY - Academia Film Olomouc FF; FILM AND TELEVISION
ASSOCIATION TRILOBIT AWARD for BEST CZECH DOCUMENTARY;
SILVER MENORAH for BEST DOCUMENTARY WITH A JEWITH
THEME, etc.
 SELECTED FESTIVALS: Karlovy Vary IFF; Gothenburg IFF; Tirana IFF; One
World Human Rights FF; Palm Springs IFF (short-listed for Audience Award)
and 2010; New York Jewish FF (5th place in Audience Award); Finale Plzen
2009; Minneapolis IFF; Vancouver DOXA FF; Sao Paulo JFF; Hong Kong JFF;
Jihlava IDFF; etc.
 Member of the EUROPEAN FILM ACADEMY; member of the CZECH
FILM ACADEMY
nám. Jana Palacha 2, 116 38 Praha
Czech Republic
Tel.: (+420) 221 619 802
Fax: (+420) 221 619 382
[email protected]
http://praguejewishstudies.ff.cuni.cz
PRAGUE JEWISH STUDIES
LARGER PUBLICATIONS
2003
Translation into English: “Václav Havel – Bořek Šípek: Castle works 1992 - 2002“
By Petr Volf.
BREDA Publishing House, Opava, 2003.
2002
“The Story of Escape of Nos. As 232 and As 233 from Zamosc”.
(Published in Czech and German).
In: Theresienstädter Studien und Dokumente 2002. Editors: Miroslav Kárný,
Jaroslava Milotová and Eva Lorencová. Academia Publishing House,
Theresienstadt Initiative Institute, pp. 252-271.
2001
“The History of the Theresienstadt transport Be to Estonia”.
(Published in Czech and German).
In: Theresienstädter Studien und Dokumente 2001. Editors: Miroslav Kárný,
Jaroslava Milotová and Eva Lorencová. Academia Publishing House,
Theresienstadt Initiative Institute, pp. 148-229.
2000
“The fate of the third Protectorate transport to Nisko”.
(Published in Czech and German).
In: Theresienstädter Studien und Dokumente 2000. Editors: Miroslav Kárný
and Eva Lorencová. Academia Publishing House, Theresienstadt Initiative
Institute, pp. 297-342.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Lectured extensively to university and high school students on history of the
Holocaust and film related topics (Universities: Brasil – FAAP; Hungary – CEU;
High schools: United States, Czech Republic, Denmark, Lithuania; general audiences
in Argentina, Brasil, Czech Republic, Lithuania, Poland, Sweden, United States).
Experience with speaking to audiences of up to 1400 people.
nám. Jana Palacha 2, 116 38 Praha
Czech Republic
Tel.: (+420) 221 619 802
Fax: (+420) 221 619 382
[email protected]
http://praguejewishstudies.ff.cuni.cz