Apolena Rychlíková is a Czech journalist, film scriptwriter, director and radio documentary filmmaker. She is the recipient of the Journalist Award for Best Commentary and the Journalist Quail Award for the best journalists under 33. She was the first Czech woman in history to be nominated for the prestigious European Journalism Award in the opinion text category. In 2017, her film Hranice práce won the Czech Joy Award for Best Czech Documentary and the Audience Award at the Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival. Apolena Rychlíková is also the producer of the podcast Kvóty and the author of the book Piko. She lectures externally at FAMU in Prague and collaborates with a number of leading Czech media outlets. She was a contributor and editor of the A2larm journalistic server for eight years, and since May 2024 she has been running the Pagenotfound.cz journalistic platform.