Film scholar
Country of origin
Slovakia
Andrej Chovanec (*1990) is a film scholar born in Slovakia and working in the Czech Republic. Currently he is a PhD student at the Department of Theatre and Film Studies at the Palacký University in Olomouc. He lectured for one semester at the St. Petersburg State University of Film and Television (2017) and he was a member of a jury at the Animafilm festival in Baku (2018). He is mainly interested in Soviet, Czechoslovak and Iranian cinema. He writes for the Czech journals "Film a doba" and "Film & spiritualita", and he is a co-author of anthologies devoted to Azerbaijani animation and feature films by Jan Švankmajer. His hobbies include Russian and Persian languages and hiking.