Beata Parkanová in Production With Czech-Slovak Film ‘Tiny Lights’

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Alexander Gabelia Czech director-writer Beata Parkanová is in production with Czech-Slovak feature “Tiny Lights,” about a summer’s day in the life of six-year-old Amálka that captures a moment of transformation and loss, but also brings hope that she can turn this loss into the ability to observe and tell stories, Film New Europe reports.“Tiny Lights” is set in the early 1990s in a small town in Czechoslovakia.

Although the film features a main character who is a child, it is not a children’s film. It is an intimate family drama. Parkanová said in a statement: “Against the backdrop of a heated marital crisis and complicated family relationships, the film captures a moment in the main character’s life where she undergoes a major transformation.

We find ourselves in a day where external circumstances break the boundaries of Amálka’s world and bring to it a new, fully lived experience complete with darkness and personal crisis.

At the end of the day, Amálka becomes someone who has experienced the state of her own dissociation and lost the assurance of immediate childhood, experiencing the world as a place where anything is game.” The film is produced by Vojtěch Frič and Přemysl Martinek through LOVE.FRAME (Czech Republic), and coproduced by Peter Veverka through AZYL Productions (Slovakia), and by Ondrej Kulhanek through Bontonfilm Studios (Czech Republic).Martinek told FNE: “Beata Parkanová is again traveling to the past and comes with another unique period drama.