Matej (born in 1994) is a film director and producer who debuted with Touchless in 2013 as the youngest European director. Matej has since directed numerous TV series, and in 2021, he received a Czech Film & Television Academy Award for Rats, an original insight into the world of a young drug dealer and police informant. He’s just recently finished his second feature film, We Have Never Been Modern, to be released in fall 2023. The film is inspired by the true story of intersex people in the 1930s, shortly before the war destroyed everything.Matej also works as a commercial director and producer while managing Barletta, a production company that develops film and commercial projects and works with partners worldwide, such as HBO Max, Canal+, AMC US, Wild Bunch, TV Nova, Czech Television, ZDF, and others.