Nurturing home-grown, grass-roots screenwriting talent is essential for the future success of the Czech film industry, according to award-winning producer, Adam Dvořák. Speaking about the success of the recent historical drama, Lidice (2011), Dvořák claims that a lack of screenwriters is threatening to upset the balance of the Czech film industry.“People are looking to directors and producers like me to supply the next film, but the success of Lidice came from a script which tells an amazing story. Directors and producers make the films, but the raw material comes from great stories written by screenwriters. Without them we will have a drought,” says Dvořák. “Many people are tempted away from screen-writing to directing and producing by the prospect of greater