RTVSChair of Children&Youth JuryMga. Oliver Filan is a dramaturge at the Department of TV Production for Children and Youth. He has spent his whole professional career working in the media. After successful graduation from the Josef Skvorecky Literary Academy in Prague he started working for the Slovak public service broadcaster Slovak Television (in 2011, Slovak Television and Slovak Radio merged and formed Radio and Television Slovakia) as program manager in the Department for Program Management. During this phase he has undergone further training aimed at overall TV production skills development at Korean television Arirang as part of international Cultural Partnership Initiative. He spent nearly ten years freelancing in media production, just to return to the Slovak public service broadcaster RTVS with a mission to restart and elevate children and youth production with his experience ranging from directing, screenwriting and format development up to handling complex media projects as a producer.