Adam Hobzik

Adam Hobzik (1985) studied law in Brno and screenwriting and dramaturgy at FAMU in Prague. He graduated with the festival film HAKA (2012) from the skinhead milieu. The film explores the question of what can drive even a relatively intelligent person to join an extremist group.

In 2015, he wrote and produced one of the first Czech webseries Pizza Boy for Stream.cz. The six-minute, black-humored stories combine the bizarreness of nighttime Prague with the disillusionment of the young generation.

Hobzik's writing and directing debut Punch and Run (Ubal a zmiz), based on the Pizza Boy series, premiered in cinemas in 2021. It is a playful, genre film with a series of parallel storylines that interact. "I wanted two things from my debut: to try out a complex narrative structure and to take a cinematic stab at a genre that provides a lot of creative freedom," said Hobzik at the premiere.

In 2022, Hobzik directed the documentary film Policie Modrava Jaroslava Soukupa, a portrait of a well-known Czech director of a number of Czech genre hits. In the documentary, Jaroslav Soukup speaks with unusual candour about his life and his filmmaking craft.

Since 2016, Hobzik has also worked as a TV director on various shows, such as Wifina, Bedekr, and/or Star Dance. As a writer or dramaturg, he has worked on the feature film The Pack (2020) and the upcoming series Identity, which deal with themes of teenagers and bullying. He is currently in pre-production of adventurous children film Táta a máma jsou boží.

Hobzik's relationship to sport is interesting: he is a multiple Czech champion in badminton and currently leads a number of Czech junior athletes in the Prague club SK Hamr.

filmography

2021 - Punch and Run

2015 - Pizza Boy (TV Series)

2012 - Haka (short)