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Lubomír Beneš (7. 11. 1935 – 12. 9. 1995)

Lubomír Beneš grew up in Prague – Hloubetin. Soon the parents realized that he was a talented boy, so they paid him a private art teacher. He taught him to draw and paint. After the army services he was accepted in the animated film studios “Bratři v triku“ (“Bothers in the T-Shirt”). Here he learned all the secrets of the animated movies. Later in the 1967 he joined Mr. Jiří Trnka, where one year later he shot his first animated film called “Homo”. His first stop motion film called “I beg you pardon” was made in 1974. Since then he made numbers of stop motion, cut out and drawn animated films.
He had established along with the other authors the studio AIF where he directed the films, until his death in 1995. Lubomír Beneš was granted many prizes at the film festivals in the Czechoslovakia and abroad. Pat and Mat is the well known work, Mr. Beneš had created.

                                                      

 

Filmografie

1988	Ropáci (studentský film)

 

Marek Beneš (21.11.1960)

Ing. Marek Beneš was born on November 21, 1960. He lived with his parents in Roztoky near Prague.
Now he lives in Prague. With his wife Věra he has two children, Lubomír and Tereza, who work with
him in their family company Patmat s.r.o. Marek Beneš studied at the Dvořák Gymnasium in Kralupy
nad Vltavou. In 1985 he graduated as an engineer from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering at Czech
Technical University in Prague. He started working as a director of educational programs and films for
universities.
From 1998, under the guidance of his father, director and artist Lubomír Beneš, Marek Beneš
animated short films from the series "Pat a Mat: ...a je to!" in Krátký film Praha. He continued this
work even after 1989 in the private studio Aif s.r.o. For this company he wrote various themes and
directed episodes of the mentioned series. After the death of his father, in 1996 Marek Beneš started
working in cable television, where he was in charge of broadcasting an information channel.
With the beginning of the new millennium, he returned to animated work in his own studio
Patmat s.r.o. where he writes and directs new episodes of the series with Pat and Mat characters.
Marek Beneš directed 66 of the current 129 episodes of the series.
His companies Patmat s.r.o. and Patmat film s.r.o. produced and continue to produce new episodes
of the series.