LUX Communication

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LUX Communication

• Slovak Catholic production and publishing house

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Who we are

• Production house (dubbing studio, music studio,
  HD technology video producer)
• Publishing house (CD, DVD, books)
• Christian event organizer (gospel music festival,
  film festival, community events, etc.)

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History

• 1992
• TV studio project is introduced - by East and
  Middle Europe Aid Council at American Bishop
  Conference
• 1993
• Recording studio and publishing house for
  Christian music are founded (at that time Slovak
  Christian culture still in infancy after the
  communism)
• TV studio is founded - for Christian programs
  for Public TV

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Our activities since then

• Production
• Music videos - more than 200
• Documentaries more than 70
• Films
• Current affairs programs
• Recording - more than 80 CDs
• Dubbing more than 500 TV programs
• Websites administration
• Christian festivals Verim Pane and Pilgrim fest
• Outreaches to different parts of the country
  (concerts, video projections, discussions)

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Our biggest projects

• Start of our own catholic television TV LUX
  (2008)
• Satellite broadcasting - Thor 3 /0,8 west/ covers
  whole Europe
• Partners of TV LUX
• LUX Communication
• Salesians of Don Bosco in Slovakia
• Slovak Bishop Conference
• Headquarters and main studios in Bratislava,
  branches in Banska Bystrica and Presov with their
  own studios
• More than 40 full-time people
• 17-hour daily broadcasting
• 47 coverage of the population
• Full on-line broadcasting web archive
• Production for TV LUX
• News, youth programs, music programs,
• current affairs...

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Our biggest projects

• Documentary series My mission about Slovak
  missionaries around the world 18
  differentcountries
• Fourth King fairy tale
• TV RIGHTS AVAILABLE!
• Bonifac fairy tale
• Polton short portraits about Christian
  musicians Christian music chart for Public TV
  and TV LUX
• Dubbing and DVD distribution e.g. Filipe Neri,
  Fatima, Christians in society

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Our biggest projects

• One of the biggest Slovak Christian festivals
  Verim Pane (Lord, I believe)
• Concerts
• Workshops
• Lectures
• Discussions
• Drama performances
• Film projections
• Masses, confessions, prayers and worships

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Current major projects

• Bella movie - cinema and DVD distribution for
  Slovakia, Poland and Croatia (www.bellamoviesite.c
  om)
• Parish, funny, yet evangelizing series about
  life of a parish priest and his sheep

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Future plans

• New series about Slovak missionaries around the
  world My mission
• New Christian-message films - cinema, DVD and
  TV distribution
• Cooperation with existing catholic TVs and
  production companies
• LUX foundation fundraising for Christian media
  projects

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Main mission of LUX Communication

• grow and spread gospel values through media...
  ...all around the world ?

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Examples of our work
Animations
Documents
Music videos
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Please contact us!

• If you want to know more about us
• If you feel that we can be of any help for you
• If you see that you can be of any help for us
• If we can be of any help for each other
• We are open to any challenge!

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Thank you!

• Tomas Straka
• Executive Director
• tomas_at_lux.sk
• LUX Communication
• Panska 11
• 814 99 Bratislava
• Slovakia
• lux_at_lux.sk
• www.lux.sk