Wanda Adamik Hrycova is a producer with more than 20 years of experience in TV, film and theatre production. Wanda graduated at The Academy of performing arts in Bratislava 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 where she produced 14 world known theatre musicals (Hello, Dolly, The Birdcage, HAIR, Hamlet, Cleopatra, etc.). Later she worked for TV and produced big TV shows (Pop Idol, The Voice, Strictly Come Dancing), TV fiction series and TV entertainment shows there.
In 2007 Wanda has established Wandal Production which focuses mainly on feature film and TV production. Wandal Production also participates as minority co-producer in strongly appealing international projects.
The crime thriller “THE LINE” (SK/UA, dir. Peter Bebjak) 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 „Sun in the net“ (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.
During 2019 and 2020 Wanda produced historical TV series “THE SLAVS”, a co-production project between Slovakia and Ukraine. THE SLAVS were premiered on TV JOJ in 2021 and was sold to HBO Europe, Italy, Germany, Middle East, UK, Ireland, Baltic states, Romania, Poland. In Poland it became the third most watched series on VOD platforms.
In 2021 Wanda released her last film “ZNAMI NEZNAMI” (SK/CZ, dir. Zuzana Mariaková) – Czech-Slovak remake of famous Italian comedy drama “Perfetti Sconosciutti”, directed by a young female debutant director Zuzana Marianková. In the hard times of covid pandemic this film became the most successful film in the Slovak cinemas when it beat even Bond when attracting 105.000 viewers. In 2022 film was premiered in Czech Republic with even better results, when gripping more than 150.000 viewers. Film was sold to Netflix.
In order to enlarge the audience of projects produced by Wanda Adamik Hrycova, she has established a new production company ALLUVIUM PRODUCTION in Czech Republic. This is the only way she can produce projects like, e.g., ICE DOWN, which story takes place in Czech Republic, most of the characters are Czech nationals speaking Czech language. As a Slovak producer, Wanda has very limited options to develop of such a project in Slovakia as Slovak Audiovisual fund (AVF) does not consider such projects being “Slovak enough” for majority support. Since Wanda is the driving power behind her projects, she usually comes up with the idea to produce it, she addresses the scriptwriter, asking some other Czech producer to take over the project, even if only administration-wise or “pro forma”, is not an option.
Based on the above mentioned it is obvious that most projects Wandal Production or Wanda Adamik Hrycova as a producer create are international co-productions. Except for very traditional partnerships between Slovakia and Czech Republic, Wanda has found a very stable co-production partner in Ukraine with whom she produced films THE LINE, FOREBODINGS and the historical tv series THE SLAVS. The partner producer in UA is Andrey Yermak who in the meantime became the head of the presidential office of the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky. Due to horrific war events happening in our neighbouring country, further co-productions with Ukraine are currently on hold but we all
hope that by the time FLIGHT FROM KABUL will be ready for production, Ukraine will be free again and it will be possible to cooperate with them again. Wanda has gained enough experience to explore other co-production territories. Projects submitted in this application bring very interesting opportunities to establish new relationships and co-productions.
In 2018 Wanda was elected the president of the Slovak Film and TV Academy and she is also an EAVE graduate and a mother of three sons.