Zuzana Liová

Born in Žilina, Czechoslovakia, 1979, writer and director, studied scriptwriting and script editing at VŠMU, the Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Bratislava, where she now teaches.

She started her career as a script editor, and later shot several TV documentaries and co-scripted a TV series. In 2005, she wrote and directed the TV feature Silence, which received a number of awards.

Poignant contemporary drama The House unfolds against the backdrop of post-communist society’s shifting values. Developed over nearly nine years, the script won the Tibor Vichta Award in Slovakia’s National Screenplay Contest, the Hartley Merill International Screenwriting Prize and the Krzysztof Kieślowski Award at ScripTeast.
(Karlovy Vary Film Festival)