Biography

Daniel Severa is an award-winning film and television producer and writer. He is known for The Devil's Mistress (Lida Baarova, 2016) and The Bitch Diary (Bestiary, 2007), as well as the series Marie Therese (2018), Captain Exner (2017-2018), Organized Crime Unit (Expozitura, 2011) and CSI Prague (Kriminalka Andel, 2010-12). He has also produced the most successful Czech weekly TV variety, game and talk shows including You've Got Mail (Posta pro tebe, 2005-2021), Incognito (2006-2007) and The Crowd (Particka 2011-2015).

Daniel is a former kayak racer, seven-time champion of the Czech Republic and Czechoslovakia, and European vice-champion. He is also the former Director of the Film Market at KVIFF - Karlovy Vary International Film Festival and the former Head of the Fiction Production Department at Nova TV network (a Warner Bros. company). In between, he also produced five successful stage plays, some of which are still running. Since 2014 he has been the president of AFTP - the Czech Association of Film and Television Producers.
- IMDb mini biography by: Herbert Cohen

Daniel Severa is also the author of the paragraphed draft text of the joint proposal of the Association of Film and Television Producers (AFTP) and the Association of Czech Cinematographers (ACK) to amend the Czech Audiovisual Act (No. 496/2012) and its explanatory report to the Czech Parliament. He is also a sought-after opponent and advisor for film students' diploma theses. In 2019 he founded the DebutLab platform, which brings together the most famous Czech, Slovak and Croatian filmmakers to help film school graduates with their first films.
- IMDb mini biography by: Herber Cohen