Nicholas Meyer was born in 1945 in New York City.The first film he saw was “The Beggar´s Opera” starring Laurence Olivier and he became a life- long film fan. At the age of 13, his preparation for filmmaking began with the help of his father, when he made 70 minute long film “Around the World in 80 days “, with his 8 mm camera. He studied filmmaking at the University of Iowa, from which he graduated in 1964.After return from Europe he became an associate publicist at Paramount Pictures. For the advance money he got for his first book The Love Story Story he moved to Hollywood where he started writing screenplays and novels. In 1975 he wrote a screenplay for The Seven-per-cent-solution, for which he was nominated for Academy Award for best Screenplay Adaptation. In 1979 he directed Time after Time, which became one of the most popular movies of that year. In 1982 he directed Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. Five years later, in 1984 he directed The Day After for ABC television. It was as movie on the impact of nuclear war and was the most watched TV film in history. It was nominated for seventeen Emmys by TV academy. He later co-authored the screenplay of Star Trek IV-The Voyage Home and in 1991 he co-wrote and directed Star Trek VI-The Undiscovered Country. His name is also signed as screenwriter for well acclaimed film Sommersby. We really wanted to make interview with such interesting man so thanks to help of our friend Pancho Kohner and Mr.Meyer´s agent Alan Gasmer we got in touch with director himself within 24 hours and he kindly replied our questions.

I of the most interesting guests on FebioFest 2018 who was awarded Kristian prize was French director Leos Carax. Despite the fact he was born 58 years ago (22.11.1960) his filmography is pretty modest and there are long gaps between the films. His films, many times low budget ones, were often made very quickly and were either praised by critics and audience or they flopped.Meeting this man was very unusual experience since he is bit odd.

Main star of Febiofest 2018 was a queen of French cinematography Catherine Deneuve. Although she will be 75 this year (born 22.10.1943) she is still active in making films, sometimes three a year. So far she has made over 120 films and worked with such notable directors as Luis Buňuel, Francois Truffaut of Roman Polanski. She had relationship with Roger Vadim and Marcello Mastroianni and her children, son Christian and daughter Chiara are also actors. Sometimes called Greta Garbo of French film was supposed to come for beginning of film festival but due to illness came week later for ending ceremony.

One of the main stars of the FebioFest 2018 was English writer, actor and director Mark Gatiss. He earned his fame as a member of League of the Gentlemen, he is also an author of series about Sherlock Holmes and resurrected Dr.Who series. He is not hiding his sexual orientations so it was our first chance to talk with such artist not only about his screen/stage activities but also about his views.

Slovakian director Marko Škop (1974) introduced his feature film debut “ Eva Nová”. Up until now he was predominantly focused at documents for which he got awards at foreign festivals. He established his own production company “Artileria” in order to be independent. Since we don´t know much either about Slovakian cinematography or about Marko Škop himself, we asked him for interview which he duly obliged.