Martin Froyda - producer, director, cameraman and photographer Martin Froyda was born in Plzen in 1967 in former Czechoslovakia. After his graduation he worked as an electrician and movie camera assistant and studied at the Prague faculty of film FAMU – Director of Photography.  Following the Velvet Revolution he established his own production company, producing television programs, music videos and movies. These included the following: -        The popular and ongoing TV series on cooking: Man in Action / Kluci v akci / (2005 – present), broadcast by Czech Television since 2005 with more than 350 segments thus far.  -        Two feature films: How to Win a Princess (1995) and the Maharal – The Secrets of the Talisman (2007), which won many international festival awards in the category of children´s films (Belgium, Belorussia, Canada, Czech Republic, Germany). -        -Documentary film for the travelogue format “On the Road” (On the Road - Queensland, 2010).  -        Documentary film about a war story from the end of the Second World War (Operation Thunderclap, 2011).  -        Cuba Libre, 1997 – a documentary film on the contemporary life of one of the last floundering communist islands Island of Tears and Hope (1995). -        Documentary on the Czech-American Martin Jan Stansky (Between two homes, 2000) covering the famous Czech literary and political family dynasty, which founded Lidove noviny.  -        Following 9/11, documentary film of interviews with Czechs living in New York (New York City – The Week After, 2001) -        Documentary film on the Vietnamese community in the Czech Republic (Out of Vietnam, 2003).  -        Hour-long documentary on the phenomenon of emigration to the U.S. (Gateway to America, 2004).  -        Documentary film about a Czech fashion model in Mumbai India, who merged her life with Indian showbiseness (Stardust from Bollywood, 2005).    As a photographer, Martin Froyda participated in the creation of books and magazines regarding the television series Man in Action. (The Taste of Andalusia,The Taste of Italy, etc.).  He also participated in creating the book with Prague themes - Prague Magic. His last photo exhibition was entitled Journeys in X Center Plzen (2000).  His latest photo exhibition takes place at American center in Prague till end of January 2014. This project is titled together with the new photography book New York Walker in Blizzard.