Directing
Ivana Hucíková
Place of birth
Slovakia
Known for
Directing
Credits
4 titles
Ivana Hucíková is a Slovak writer and director. Her work focuses on questions of identity, belonging, and personal freedom, with a strong emphasis on feminist and queer perspectives. Ivana holds a PhD in documentary film from the Film and Television Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava and she's a member of European Film Academy and Slovak Association of Documentary Filmmakers.
Known for
NRA cinematic journey into the lives of a new generation in Eastern Europe, where vulnerability and resilience meet on the ballroom runway, transforming celebration into an act of freedom and political resistance.
Velvet Generation
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NRHouse of Velvet is a short film that follows a day in the life of the Kiki House of Velvet members. Scattered moments from their everyday experiences in the outside world dissolve when everyone meets again in the safety within their chosen family. Scripted scenes merged with authentic and lived experiences of the characters show how the ballroom culture intertwines with their lives & vice versa.
House of Velvet
2023
NRGrowing up in the largest affordable housing cooperative in Brooklyn, Cassandra’s world was artfully framed by her mother’s Super-8 camera. Today, still living in the same place, Cassandra examines and edits these remarkable films, gaining insight into the challenges her mother faced as a creative black woman and the importance of her vision.
Into My Life
2018
Behind the camera
NRA cinematic journey into the lives of a new generation in Eastern Europe, where vulnerability and resilience meet on the ballroom runway, transforming celebration into an act of freedom and political resistance.
Velvet Generation
—
NRHouse of Velvet is a short film that follows a day in the life of the Kiki House of Velvet members. Scattered moments from their everyday experiences in the outside world dissolve when everyone meets again in the safety within their chosen family. Scripted scenes merged with authentic and lived experiences of the characters show how the ballroom culture intertwines with their lives & vice versa.
House of Velvet
2023
NRHouse of Velvet is a short film that follows a day in the life of the Kiki House of Velvet members. Scattered moments from their everyday experiences in the outside world dissolve when everyone meets again in the safety within their chosen family. Scripted scenes merged with authentic and lived experiences of the characters show how the ballroom culture intertwines with their lives & vice versa.
House of Velvet
2023
NRGrowing up in the largest affordable housing cooperative in Brooklyn, Cassandra’s world was artfully framed by her mother’s Super-8 camera. Today, still living in the same place, Cassandra examines and edits these remarkable films, gaining insight into the challenges her mother faced as a creative black woman and the importance of her vision.
Into My Life
2018