WANDA ADAMIK HRYCOVA

Producer

COMPANY DESCRIPTION

Wandal Production was established in 2007. Wanda Adamik Hrycova, company’s owner, has more than 20 years of experience in TV, film and theatre production, she produced 14 world known theatre musicals (Hello, Dolly, The Birdcage, HAIR, Hamlet, Cleopatra, etc.), big TV shows (Pop Idol, The Voice, Strictly Come Dancing), TV fiction series and TV entertainment shows.

Wandal Production focuses mainly on feature film and TV production. We also participate as minority co-producers in strongly appealing international projects.

Wanda graduated at VSMU in 2001, majoring in TV and Film Production. Between 2001-2006 she worked as a General Director at Nova Scena Theatre, the biggest musical theatre in Slovakia. In 2008 she produced a musical “The Producers” as a private producer under her label Wandal Production. The show was seen by almost 25.000 viewers. Between 2010-2012 she worked as a General Director in MediaPro Entertainment Slovakia, a production company that was producing the entire local content for TV Markiza. From TV she left to give birth to her three sons and during her maternity leave she produced two films – a World War II drama “COLETTE”, CZ/SK, dir. Milan Cieslar and a crime thriller “THE LINE” (SK/UA, dir. Peter Bebjak). THE LINE premiered in the main competition of KVIFF 2017 where Bebjak won the Best Director Award, the film has won many festival awards around the world, and received 6 awards „ Slnko v sieti“ (Slovak National Film Awards). It also became the most successful Slovak film in the history of the country with over 330.000 admissions, earning more than 1.7mil EUR. In 2018 Wanda was elected the president of the Slovak Film and TV Academy. Wanda is an EAVE graduate.

In the spring of 2021, she premiered the historical TV series SLOVANIA, which was created in a Slovak-Ukrainian co-production for TV JOJ. In the summer of 2021 she released film PERFECT STRANGERS, which is an adaptation of the world-famous original Perfetti Sconosciuti. This film became the most visited Slovak film in Slovakia in 2021. Currently her company Wandal Production is developing films DUBČEK, a historical drama from a hockey setting ICE DOWN and a historical TV mini-series based on the book of the same name THREE BANKS OF DANUBE.  

PROJECTS IN DEVELOPMENT
HRDOBA – feature documentary
ICE DOWN – historical drama
THREE BANKS OF DANUBE – miniseries
DUBČEK – historical drama

COMPLETED PROJECTS 
THE SLAVS – historical TV series (SK premiere 10.03.2021)
PERFECT STRANGERS – a sweet and bitter comedy (SK premiere 4.08.2021)
FOREBODINGS – drama (SK premiere 16.09.2021)

MY UNKNOWN SOLDIER (2018) – documentary
THE LINE (2017) – criminal thriller
COLETTE (2013) – drama