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Pojar Bretislav
Bretislav Pojar was born in 1923 in Susice, Southern Bohemia, and learned animation at Pragfilm Studio. At the end of the Second World War, he was one of the founders of the animation studio of the master puppeteer Jiri Trnka, where he made his first films. Over the years, his reputation grew and he picked up many awards in film festivals around the world: Locarno, Cannes, Annecy, Chicago, Berlin, New York, Los Angeles, Zagreb, Barcelona, and Buenos Aires, among others. In 1969, the National Film Board of Canada invited him to animate Psychocratie, an invitation which was often repeated over the years and which yielded Balablok (1972), "E" (1981, with Francine Desbiens' collaboration) and Nightangel (1986, a NFB/Kratky film co-production, co-directed with Jacques Drouin). Bretislav Pojar's long experience as an animator, filmmaker and writer made him a natural choice for the seventh film, summarizing the themes in the second part of the Rights from the Heart collection. He also acts as script and animation consultant on the other six films.
