Vlasta Pospíšilová (18 February 1935 – 15 April 2022) was a Czech animator, director and screenwriter.

Life and career

Vlasta Pospíšilová was born on 18 February 1935 in

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as Vlasta Jurajdova. She attended and graduated from the Higher Professional School of Applied Art in Prague. Since 1956, she worked as an assistant animator at the Puppet Film Studio in Prague, later at the Jiří Trnka Studio. As an animator, she became famous for The Cybernetic Grandma, Jan Werich's fairy tale ''Fimfárum'', as a screenwriter and director for the series ''

Broučci ''Broučci'' is a children's book by Jan Karafiát (author), Jan Karafiát published in Czech language, Czech kingdom in the early 1870s. The title is the Czech word for beetles, and the word is also used for "traditional Czech figures of fairyli ...

'' and worked as a director's consent of the series ''

Pat & Mat ''Pat & Mat'' (Czech and Slovak: ''Pat a Mat'') is a Czechoslovak slapstick stop-motion silent animated series created by Lubomír Beneš and Vladimír Jiránek. The characters first appeared in the theatrically released short ''Kuťáci'' (' ...

''. She's also work in directing films and animating films with her friend, Alfons Mensdorff-Pouilly (notably, Faustus house austův důmwhich is directed by Garik Seko) or Jan Klos (especially Motyli cas.) She was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Anifilm International Animated Film Festival in Třeboň in May 2015.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Pospisilova, Vlasta 1935 births 2022 deaths Czech animators Czech animated film directors Women animated film directors Czech women animators People from Prague