Tereza Hirsch

Tereza Hirsch is an award winning Writer, Director, Actress and Production Designer, best known for her political period piece "The Guilt List". She was born in Germany and grew up in the Czech Republic; now her dreams are starting to come alive as she lives in Los Angeles. With her passion for writing and filmmaking, Tereza focused her career and educational background around this aspect. Throughout the beginning of the 2000s, she expanded her knowledge and experience by enrolling in media management, journalism, film and media production, cinematography, acting and directing. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Anglophone studies in English from the Metropolitan University of Prague and graduated in 2015. Tereza also pursued and earned her Master of Arts in Film and Media Production from the New York Film Academy in 2016. She also advanced her acting career skills by securing eight weeks of regular acting classes at the Artist Advantage Group Academy in Hollywood California. She was coached under the illustrious Emmy winner Andre Bauth and Judd Laurance, who are credited for coaching actors such as Jason Bateman, Jennifer Lopez, Heather Locklear and Jenny McCarthy among others. Tereza is also multilingual, and speaks fluent German, Czech, and English and also has a basic knowledge of French. Some of her journalistic works include writing short stories for the book 'The World in a Drop of Dew' under the lead of the Czech Journalist and Writer Dana Emingerová. She also created websites for the reality/documentary 'Behind the Hills' and an online music magazine called 'Brouk Music.' Tereza has written articles on her volunteering journey in India which was published in the cultural and society magazine 'Xantypa Magazine' and 'Prager Zeitung', the largest non-Czech newspaper in the Czech Republic. She also contributed to writing music related articles for 'Rock and Pop Magazine' and 'Report Magazine'. As a Freelance Filmmaker, during 2015 till present, she was the Casting Assistant for a thesis film 'Eli' directed by Yayun Hsu. Tereza appeared as an actress for the short science fiction film 'Alive' directed by William Inhyuk Hyoung and for the film 'Stalker' directed by Yitao Yang. Later on, she landed a position as a 2nd Directing Assistant for the film 'Bird of Paradise' directed by Le Wang. As a step up from that position, she became the 1st Directing Assistant for 'Words' directed by Lamia Al-Shwwier. Then, she served as a Production Designer for the short comedy drama 'Hot Set' which was directed by Cyril Zima. Another aspect of her directing skills can be seen in the Music Video for the song 'Emiline' written by Taylor Alexander. In 2016 was Tereza's directorial debut for the film 'The Guilt List,' a political drama set in 1953. This film marks the representation of a blend of Tereza's collective skills, which she earned and developed over time like screenwriting, directing, production designing and acting combined into one, to produce the well-articulated film. In 2017, Tereza has worked on various commercials (eg for Toyota), as well as on set of the music video 'Feel Nothing' by metal-core band The Plot In You, which has hit over 2 million views on YouTube, or the Student Academy Award winning 'Mammoth' by Ariel Heller. Meanwhile, her film 'The Guilt List' has received numerous awards, such as for Outstanding Achievement in Film from the film festival in Princeton/NJ and Best International Short Film & Best Cinematography at the Brazil International Film Festival. In November 2017, along with a group of young Czech writers, Tereza has published her second book, a collection of short stories, called The Era of Packaging (Doba Obalova).