Mimesis Film is a feature and documentary film production company based in Prague, Czech Republic. We develop and produce strong cinematic stories with international appeal.
Mimesis Film was founded in 2012 by Jan Macola, who had been previously working for Barrandov Studios as Head of Co-Productions and Development. His producing debut „The Way Out“, written and directed by Petr Vaclav, premiered at Cannes Film Festival 2014 within the ACID selection and got seven Czech Film and Television Academy Awards, including the best picture category.
The company has produced Vaclav’s feature documentary Confession Of The Vanished and his feature We Are Never Alone. The film has been selected to Berlinale where it got Tagesspiegel Readers Award for the best film of the Forum section. Mimesis Film has also produced documentaries „Normal Autistic Film“ by Miroslav Janek and „Into The North“ by Natasha Dudinski. The latest road movie directed by Petr Vaclav „Skokan“ was released in spring 2017.