Febio

Creation | EYE - a view of the present

A view of various social problems, events, personalities and phenomena

Frequency:

initially bi-monthly, in 1999-2000 monthly and occasional

Brodcast:

1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1999, 2000

Length:

20 minutes (bi- monthly), 30 minutes (monthly and occasional)

First part:

“From here – to there” (directed by: Fero Fenič)

Total parts:

132

Contact:
Krátký film Praha a.s.
Kříženeckého nám. 1079/5b
152 53, Praha 5 – Barrandov
tel.: 267 091 111
fax: 267 091 222

Czech Television – Telexport
Kavčí hory, 140 00 Prague 4
tel: 26 11 37 047
fax: 26 12 11 354
e-mail: telexport@czech-tv.cz

About this series:
In the exceptionally eventful post-revolution period, when film documentaries found themselves at a crossroads (cinemas stopped showing documentary films and the Film Weekly also stopped), when most of the producers were whining about the bleak state of domestic production, when the stormy development of society was not regularly recorded by documentary-makers compared to in communist times (only in television news, which has its restrictions), Fero Fenič came up with the idea for a periodical documentary program, which would reflect the life of our society.

The Febio company was founded because of this program, which revealed itself to the public for the first time on the third channel at that time, OK 3 with just this twenty-minute program (“EYE: From here – to there”, shown on 4 April 1992 in terms of the magazine by the K.F. a.s. company -"Kanafas").

The bi-monthly “EYE” then became one of the most watched documentary programs on Czechoslovakian and Czech Television and the predecessor of many successful investigative programs seen on Czech television stations today.

Czech and Slovak producers here gained a unique opportunity to reflect the dramatic transformation of society after the fall of the totalitarian system. Some of their works influenced the social atmosphere of today to an important extent: groundbreaking topics (e.g. the only documentary filmed with the mother of V. Mečiar), up-to-date processing (e.g. reportage from the night the government broke up) and many more.
The circle of producers was the scene for meetings of the most experienced and most talented Czech and Slovak documentary makers from all generations, most of whom had not worked with the medium of television up to that point and who had no experience with video. They managed to enrich both of these with their film sense.

OKO significantly influenced the state and shape of documentary filmmaking in the new, post-revolution conditions and helped to create a new type of original Czech documentary production. Many parts of this series were shown and awarded at domestic and foreign festivals; some of the parts were even broadcast by foreign television stations.