Lucia Kajánková (born in 1987 in Slovakia) is a screenwriter, director and script consultant, as well as festival programmer and lecturer based in Prague, Czech Republic. She studied philosophy and film studies at Charles University in Prague and screenwriting and dramaturgy at FAMU. She was the program director of Queer Film Festival MEZIPATRA until 2015 and now works for IFF Prague Febiofest. She has been a faculty member of FAMU’s Department of Screenwriting and Dramaturgy since 2013 (senior lecturer). She trained with the MIDPOINT programme (feature film, short film, ‘Training the Trainers’) and is currently a trainee in the Script Consulting Incubator at the Czech Film Fund. She consults for the Czech Television Film Center and also on various independent projects. Her student films at FAMU, together with director Jakub Šmíd, include AMANITAS (2016) and NON-SWIMMERS (2011, The Magnesia Award for Best Czech Student Film, official festival selection at Premiers Plan Angers, Les Nuits en Or, BFI London Film Festival and many others). Her short film debut as writer/director, INVERSION, is currently in post-production and she is developing her feature debut PORCELINA. She enjoys swimming pools, smoking and pictures of owls in the wilderness.