Tonička Janková
editor

Tonička Janková was born as Hana Tomešová in Czechoslovakia. When she grew up she was in charge of properties in the Theatre of Petr Bezruč, she worked as a photographer for the city of Ostrava and later on she was also a white chimney-sweeper in the mine Nová Huť of Klement Gottwald and an actress in the Waterloo Theatre in Ostrava. After lots of back and forth, she became a laboratory technician in the Barrandov film studios where she spent her time falling asleep while copying tourist slides of the Prague Castle. She continued in going to sleep as a lighting technician in the Theater of Jiří Wolker in Prague. Later, she became an assistant film editor in The Czechoslovak TV Studio in Jindřišská Street and a student of film editing at Prague’s FAMU. After three years she left the studio to pursue her dreams of fame in the US where she worked her way up from being a press operator, a nurse in a nursing home, to selling hamburgers as an employee of McDonald´s (just for one day), serving tables in a German restaurant, baking in a French restaurant, acting in a French-American theatre to finally become a film editor. This is the job she has stayed with until today. Among other films she has edited Citizen Havel (Občan Havel, dir. Pavel Koutecký and Miroslav Janek), Milos Forman Stories (dir. Vojtěch Jasný), Johny Suede (dir. Tom di Cillo), Children of the Night (dir. Michaela Pavlátová), The Devil Knows Why (dir. Roman Vávra) as well as numerous documentaries directed by Miroslav Janek, Pavel Štingl and Břetislav Rychlík.