Matej Mináč

Matej Mináč (born 1 April 1961) is a Slovak film director. His brother is a Canadian mathematician Ján Mináč. Matej Minac has directed three films about Sir Nicholas Winton, a Briton who organized the rescue of 669 Jewish children from German-occupied Czechoslovakia on the eve of World War II in an operation later known as the Czech Kindertransport: the drama All My Loved Ones(1999) (the role of Winton was played by Rupert Graves), the documentary The Power of Good: Nicholas Winton (2002), which won an Emmy Award, the documentary with feature reenactments Nicky's Family (2011)

and Children Saved from the Nazis: The Story of Sir Nicholas Winton (2016). Minac also made a full-length documentary with feature reenactments Through the Eyes of the Photographer (2015) on the popular Slovak photographer Zuzana Minacova, his mother.