Ivana Šebestová

Ivana Šebestová

Born in 1979, Poprad, Slovakia, Ivana Šebestová graduated from Animated Film, at the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava/ “Vysoká škola múzických umení v Bratislave”. Her Masters’ film, “Lionardo Mio” (2005), won the Bologna European Festival of Film Schools. She gained many national and international awards, for her short films “Four”/ “Štyri” (2007) and “Snow”/ “Sneh” (2013). Together with Katarína Kerekesová, she created an educational film for the Slovak National Museum, “How I Went with Grandpa, to Visit the Ancestors”/ “Ako som šiel s dedkom na návštevu k predkom” (2010). Ivana Šebestová illustrated several books for children and, currently, she is working on TV special “Mimi & Lisa: Christmas Lights Mystery”/ “Mimi a Líza: Tajemství vánočního světla”.