The show Survivor is all about casting people off the show, but Tereza Vlčeková may have to be dragged off kicking and screaming. “I don’t want to leave,” she chuckled." “It’s so magical I think I’m dreaming sometimes.” Tereza, 27, is an intern on the set of Survivor Česko & Slovensko, currently being filmed in the Dominican Republic. She’s also a student of the CME Content Academy, and the internship is part of her studies.

Former executive producer Veronika Trčková, who spent 16 years working her way up in the television industry, has taken on a new mission to jump-start the television careers of talented young newcomers. She is one of the key players in the creation of the CME Content Academy, which opened last year, and is designed to develop young talent into the scriptwriters, showrunners, directors, and TV producers of tomorrow.

Matěj Škop is a cliché. His story of falling in love with film-making is so typical, he doesn’t even want to tell it. “It’s a typical story of directors around the world,” he said. Matěj was nine years old when his father first put a camera into his hands. At 10 years old, he asked his classmates to make a movie with him. He shot it in his bedroom – complete with car chases, trains, and a lot of humor. Then he showed it…

“Slavic Buffy.” That’s the TV series Maggie Drahovska dreams of creating. It’s one of the reasons she was accepted into the CME Content Academy. The Academy is designed to develop talented newcomers into the scriptwriters, showrunners, and TV producers of tomorrow. TV Nova and TV Markíza created CME together with The Television Institute to train students in the television industry and allow them to work long-term for the…

Viktoria Hodvan doesn’t give up.  Not when she’s auditioning for acting roles and certainly not when she was first denied a place at the CME Content Academy.                  “I was sad. I cried,” the 25-year-old from Bratislava said. “I was really sure I would be chosen.”  The academy is designed to develop talented newcomers into the scriptwriters, showrunners, and TV producers of tomorrow. TV Nova and TV Markíza created…

Tereza Vlčeková spent much time in front of the TV cameras as a professional dancer. She smiled, followed the director’s cues, and performed for the audience. “Then one day, I just realized maybe it’s better to be behind the camera,” she said. And thus began the journey that led Tereza to the CME Content Academy. The academy is designed to develop talented newcomers into the scriptwriters, showrunners, and TV producers…

As a teenager in Kralupy, Adam Závodský was a “typical nerd” – obsessed with his electronic toys and mapping out a future in math and science. Then when he was 15 years old, he was forced to take a drama class. It changed the course of his life. “The professor was very clever, so I started taking more classes,” Adam said. “Creative writing then plays. I loved it.”

Her teachers told Kristina Sverkunová that writing “wasn’t a real job.”  They urged her to give up her passion to write books and scripts. Be practical, they said.  Choose something safe. And for a while, Kristina did just that. She became an entrepreneur, opening a successful craft brew pub in Prague.

Post-war Czechoslovakia: A 25-year-old man injured a girl in a minor motorcycle accident. Authorities gave him a choice: Go to prison for your “crime” or join the Communist party and the incident would be forgotten. He joined.