Pavla Kallistová

Production manager. Born 1953

After graduating from the gymnasium, she worked for a foreign trade company. Then she went working for the Barrandov Film Studio as a film production secretary, and after gaining experience joined as a script supervisor the production crew of the experimental scene of Laterna Magika. She collaborated on the performance Snow Queen directed by Evald Schorm, where she met her future husband, producer Jaromír Kallista. In 1994 she established an incoming travel company. Since 2006 she has been working as a production manager at Athanor, Film Production Company. She communicates with film festivals around the world and organizes screenings of Švankmajer´s films and retrospectives, exhibitions of art-works by Jan and Eva Švankmajer and arranges the running and agenda of the production office.