“It all started in 2003 when I first heard the story of the unbelievable spontaneous return of the moose population to my homeland, the Czech Republic, after 500 years of them being extinct here,” she tells Variety.
Five years later, while studying at Prague’s venerated Famu film school, her interest hadn’t lessened a bit — leading her, after a tortuous but relentless trek, to this week’s world premiere of “Amoosed” in the Ji.hlava doc fest’s Czech Joy section.
Determination was indeed needed: funders were not too receptive to her pitch, Novakova says, and Covid lockdowns were on the horizon, preventing her from filming abroad.
“And yet again, the following diplomatic crisis between the Czech Republic and Russia in 2021 plus the war Russia started…
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