About us - Media Voice

OUR STORY

We are a production company Media Voice, pioneers in the field of creative social business. At the beginning of our story, a woman and her dream were to start a production company.

Talented Romani filmmaker and photographer Vera Lacková has surrounded herself with young creative people from different cultures and backgrounds to give them a chance to reach their full potential and show that multicultural cooperation not only helps mutual understanding and conflict prevention but is also a valuable source of inspiration.

WHAT CAN WE DO?

We can create an imaginative promo video, take a picture of you or your product and we can also make a catchy report from your event. We shoot documentary movies and we will create the entire campaign for you.

WHY COOPERATE WITH US?

We offer to capturing your story and uniqueness in an innovative way, so that you can present yourself adequately

We capture the uniqueness of every one of our collaborators.

We think in images.

We see ahead.

NÁŠ TÍM

Vera Lacková
Executive director
Vera Lacková, executive director and Roma director. With her own passion, she looks at the world through the eyes of a camera, listens to reggae and follows her vision.
Jaroslav Janšík
Assistant / Technician
He likes to work against prejudices. He loves movies and movies love him. He is dependent on his Spotify acount.

Jan Bodnár
Producent
He likes to work against prejudices. He loves movies and movies love him. He is dependent on his Spotify acount.
Beáta Madajová
Designer
Creative graphic designer whose smile and style can´t be overlooked. Walking calendar with dreads full of all good actions. Challenges and tasks are her engine.

VERA LACKOVÁ

Vera Lacková is a Romani director and film producer. She was born in Slovakia and now works in Vienna. She founded the Czech – Slovak production company Media Voice. Working with the Roma people and sharing their stories allows her to bring a unique perspective on important and current ethnic and political issues of the Roma community. In 2019 she attended the IDFA Academy. Her debut film How I Became a Partisan is about searching for the forgotten fates of Romani partisans, while Vera is based on the story of her great-grandfather – Ján Lacko. The film premiered at the goEast Film Festival in Wiesbaden in 2021, where it won one of the main awards – the Cultural Diversity Award. The project was developed at the Ex Oriente film workshop and presented in 2020 on the East Silver Doc Platform. She is currently preparing three other feature projects.

JAN BODNÁR

Jan Bodnár is a Czech producer and publicist. He focuses primarily on the production of documentaries on human rights and environmental issues, films by female directors and feature debuts.

He is a producer at Media Voice, in which he has worked with director Vera Lacková for a long time. Together they completed the award-winning Slovak-Czech feature documentary How I Became a Partisan (2021). He is behind many media campaigns, such as the viral campaign #JakoTy for META company (dir. Martin Páv).

As a producer at GNOMON Production, he participated in the documentary World by Jiří (d. Marta Kovářová) on the climate crisis, and as a co-producer he completed the time-lapse project of director Tereza Tara Healing me (2021). As an executive producer, he works on film projects of the established company Film & Sociology.

In 2016–2019 he worked as a programmer at the queer film festival Mezipatra. He regularly publishes in the magazines Cinepur, A2 – kulturní čtrnáctideník and collaborates with Czech Radio Vltava.