Lubomír Beneš

As a child, he was artistically talented, so his parents paid for private art lessons, in which he studied drawing, painting and writing.

From 1990, he worked in the aiF Studio, which he had founded together with his son Marek, Pat & Mat co-creator Vladimír Jiránek and producer Michal Podhradský.

[2] There, he produced and directed 14 new Pat & Mat episodes in 1992 and 1994, which were highly successful and broadcast internationally.

Uneven Fight (Czech: Nerovný souboj) won the Main prize at the Vancouver Film Festival.

The Cyclists was also included in the selection "The Best of Annecy '93" by Cinémathèque Québécoise (Montreal), Museum of Fine Arts (Boston), Pacific Film Archive (Berkeley), Museum of Modern Art (New York City) and presented by these institutions in their autumn 1993 show.

The 44th Pat & Mat episode, The Billiards (Czech: Kulečník), animated by František Váša, was selected for the "Annecy '95" competition, and invited to many other international film festivals.