Bara Jichova Tyson is a Czech-American artist and filmmaker. Currently, she is directing her second feature documentary film, PLAYTOPIA, produced by Cinepoint, deFilm, TAG film, and Incomplete Pictures. Her first feature documentary film, "Talking About Adultery," premiered at the 2019 Sheffield Doc/Fest and was nominated for the New Talent Award. Its Czech premiere was at Ji.hlava IDFF (nominated for Best Czech Documentary), and its North American premiere was at DOC NYC. Her short animated documentary film, "The Hatch House," premiered at the 2016 Architecture and Design Film Festival in New York City and Los Angeles, USA. As a co-editor and co-writer, Bara worked on the feature documentary “Organ Player” directed by Narcissister (2018 Sundance Film Festival). She edited the feature documentary “Instructions on Parting,” directed by Amy Jenkins ( 2018 MoMA / Doc Fortnight). In 2009, she edited Michael Almereyda's feature film "Paradise," nominated for a Gotham Award. She was also the art director of "Now, Forager," a feature film by Jason Cortlund and Julia Halperin, selected for the 2012 New Directors/New Films Festival organized by the Film Society of Lincoln Center. The film received nominations at the Gotham Independent Film Awards. In 2003, Bara was the art director of a play based on Anthon Chekhov, “In This is the End of Sleeping,” directed by Jay Sheib. Jichova Tyson studied fine arts, theater, and digital media at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam. In 2007, she earned her BFA at the MassArt in Boston at the Studio For Interrelated Media (SIM). She is the recipient of the MacDowell Fellowship (2016). She had numerous art exhibitions in New York and San Francisco. Municipal Bonds, a San Francisco-based gallery, represents her artwork.