Otakar Jalůvka is an author, prose-writer, script writer, editor, poetic, musician, photographer and producer/director.

The world of culture and arts he started already at the school of music (1972). Having graduated at a conservatoire (1984), he passed through a number of profesions. Succesfully graduated on the conservatoire, the department Fine Art Photography, specialization in the Video section as well (2006).

He wrote and still writes other themes, stories, libretti, scripts, lyrics and new programme formats. Hi is involved in the fine arts; music, photography, camera, cutting and producer/director.

He has extended his activities also into the field of advertisement and publicity. He his involved in creating of advertisement, publicity and PR texts, slogans, reviews, graphic lay-outs and media presentations...

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Initially, he participated as a script writer and editor, moderator, co-producer/director and a theme co-author in the retrospective audio-visual programmes, utilising an original period technique and authentic recordings, "Veterandisco" (1987-88), surveying the history of our modern pop-music, including its symbiosis with theatre and film. This creative period has been concluded by a realisation of purely his own audio programme "The Stray Poets" (1989) devoted to the set-to-music poetic texts.

But not only by music and verses the author lived and so it is no wonder that a theme as well as a script of the feature film - the first Czech original erotic comedy "All end up in bed, anyway" (1998) arose by a screen adaptation of his own literary exemplar of the same name. There he exploited with a bird's eye view peculiar to him also his rich experience in this field and proved that no genre is foreign to him.

He became a co-author and a script editor of the TV-series project "As Life Passes" - a cycle of short mime comical stories of comteporary life - an episode "The Antenna" (1999) and an author of theme, literary exemplar and the script of other episode "The Goose" (2000). He works on further yet unfinished current themes and sequels. Also there he exploits with a certain hyperbole his own experiences.

Partly, that applies also to his script of the feature romantic-dramatic film of a contemporary life "The River of Memories" (2003), a story of young people, which is freely inspired by real events and is a further film adaptation of his own literary exemplar (2001). He wrote for this film also two lyrics.

Script of the a feature film "Forget-Me-Nots" (2004), a summer story of young people is similarly a screen adaptation of his own literary exemplar of the same name highlights negative affetcts of alcohol and drugs, touches also cancer and AIDS issues. The story end is made purposely in such a way that it afford him a space for a prepared loose sequel. This genre implies other directions of his creative development.

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