
Eliška Soffer Podzimek (b. 1992) is a Czech multimedia artist, animator, illustrator and digital creator. Her work combines live-action film with hand-drawn animation. She has made award-winning films and music videos and created marketing campaigns for clients including American Vogue and the Metro daily. After spending time at the New York Film Academy, she returned to Prague, where her experience of battling cancer as a teenager inspired her to initiate Plešouni [Baldies], a project that harnesses the power of animated film to support children in difficult life situations. She is illustrator of a new Czech edition of Saint-Éxupéry’s Le Petit Prince.
– novel, written by Markéta Pilátová, trans. Lea Krautzberger, Blanka Libera, Monika Peraus, Theresa Ramer, Milena Schedlbauer, Anna Schwandt, Kateřina Šichová, Karl Rauch Verlag, 2026
– czech orig. Arnoštova cesta, Odeon, 2023