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- Height5′ 10″ (1.78 m)
- Eva Vik is a Czech director, writer, and producer based in Los Angeles, represented by Ridley Scott's Creative Group. Named in Forbes 30 Under 30, Eva first gained recognition for her visually striking short films starring talents such as Sean Penn, Suki Waterhouse, and Barbara Palvin. Her work has premiered on platforms including MUBI, Nowness, Vogue, Dazed, Prime Video, and has been screened at the Centre Pompidou in Paris.
Eva's sci-fi body-horror short "Serpentine", about the birth of a new interspecies (starring Barbara Palvin and Soo Joo Park), was sponsored by Bvlgari, premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival, received multiple awards, and was released by Nowness, where it reached over 5 million views. Vik's work has garnered international awards and honors, including Best Director at ISA, Best Horror at HollyShorts, and Best Genre at the Mammoth Film Festival.
Vik has also directed additional Bvlgari projects, featuring actress Cailee Spaeny.
Fluent in four languages, Eva serves as an ambassador for the nonprofit White Ribbon USA that works to reduce and prevent domestic and gender-based violence.
- IMDb mini biography by: Drew Padbury
- Gender / Gender identityFemale
- Eva Vik was a professional volleyball player before her filmmaking career.
- In 2021, Eva was named in Forbes' prestigious 30 Under 30 feature.
- Eva's birth surname is Dolezalova, but in 2023, she took the maiden surname of her grandmother, Vik.
- Vik is also an ambassador for the White Ribbon Campaign, a global movement working to end violence against women and children.
- Eva Vik quoted in an interview: "Filmmaking is like dreaming, only better. Because if it's happening on the screen, it could conceivably happen in the dull reality of quotidian life.".
- Don't fear, go after your dreams with passion and persistence and don't worry about what other people say. Only your heart knows the right answer.
- Filmmaking is like dreaming, only better. Because if it's happening on the screen, it could conceivably happen in the dull reality of a quotidian life.
- When I make films, I get to give back to filmmaking. Films shaped me and still are reshaping me. They make me feel things I otherwise would not feel.
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