Jan Svěrak is a Czech director and filmmaker who is award winning and nominated (Academy award, Golden Globes Award, Crystal Globe, Tokio Grand Prix etc.) for several of his films. Born 1965 in Czechia, Svěrák studied film specifically for Documentary at the FAMU. (Filmová a televizní fakulta Akademie múzických umění v Praze/Film and Television Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague). He found his go to style in sci-fi ecology, and fictional documentary. His first feature film, Elementary School (1991) won an Academy Award for best foreign language film.

Admittedly, almost all the sources I found on him were in Czech- and some of them translated rather awkwardly.