Miloslav Novák (b. 1978, Dvůr Králové nad Labem) graduated from the SVOŠF film school in Písek and, after studying editing at Prague’s FAMU, worked as a journalist for the Czech papers Lidové noviny and Literární noviny. He continued with documentary filmmaking at FAMU while concurrently attending Charles University’s Philosophical Faculty. In 1997 he made the short film Dangers of Loneliness (Samota bývá nebezpečná – Special Mention at the IAFF in Annecy 1998). In 2001 he filmed the documentary profile J.C. – Experience with Expressionism (J.C. – Zkušenost s expresionismem) about the distinguished Czech film and literary critic Jiří Cieslar. He got together with Lucie Králová in 2003 to direct the film Ill-Fated Child (Zlopověstné dítě), which won Best Documentary at the IFF in Jihlava. During his six-month period spent studying at university in Cagliari, Sardinia, he made the film Is Mortorious, about blind people’s perception of hearing.