Our last physically present guest was an acclaimed British novelist and screenwriter David Mitchell who talked about the film adaptation of his famous novel Cloud Atlas. During a discussion moderated by Ondrej Pavlik, Mitchell was presented with excerpts from the film and elaborate on what were the challenges of adapting his book (deemed “unfilmable” by many) for the big screen. The event organized was Book World Prague & Cinergy.
​David Mitchell is an acclaimed British novelist and screenwriter. His first novel, Ghostwritten, was published in 1999. Since then, Mitchell has published eight novels in total, two (number9dream and Cloud Atlas) of them shortlisted for Man Booker Prize. Cloud Atlas has been successfully adapted for the big screen in 2012 (directed by Wachowski siblings and Tom Tykwer), with Mitchell as one of the screenwriters. Mitchell’s collaboration with Lana Wachowski continues - he’s the author of the screenplay for Matrix: Resurrections, which will be released this December.
​Ondřej Pavlík is a film critic, contributor to the magazine Cinepur and an internal PhD student at the Institute of Film and Audiovisual Culture at the Faculty of Arts at Masaryk University in Brno. He is currently completing his research on Czech film criticism in the digital era. In addition, he teaches semester courses on global artistic cinema and film ecocriticism. He worked as a dramaturge of the original student project Audiovize and now Ondřek Pavlík works externally with the Karlovy Vary IFF.