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FILMNEWEUROPE.COM 2 Introduction
Warsaw, October 19th, 2017
Ladies and Gentlemen, Dear Friends,
Welcome to Warsaw Industry Days, which is possibly the fastest organised film industry event ever, as the Polish Film Institute announced their funding decision October 2nd. Now, seventeen DAYS later, it’s happening.
CentEast, which some of you know and respect, has become history. Creative Europe Media rejected our application after 12 years of continuous support. We were told that our project is not ‘innovative’ enough. In fact, ‘creative’ applications, reporting, and accounting, has never been our forte.
When we organised the first edition of Warsaw Screenings in 2000, we were the first to make a selection of Polish films and to present them, with English subtitles, to a group of foreign professionals. Thanks to our efforts, dozens of Polish films found their way to the world’s major festivals, to sales agents and, as a result, to international distribution.
Seventeen years later, in cooperation with the Polish Film Institute, we organise thefirst edition of Pitch & Meet, which we hope will develop into a full scale co-production market.
We are delighted that you have decided to come to Warsaw to attend WID.
Welcome!
Stefan Laudyn, general manager, Warsaw Film Foundation Małgorzata Dochniak, head of Warsaw Industry Days 3 Table of Contents
Schedule of Warsaw Industry Days 4
Venues 10
Map 11
Warsaw Industry Days Team 13
Warsaw Screenings – Feature Films 14
Warsaw Screenings – Shorts 23
Warsaw Works-In-Progress 28
FIPRESCI Warsaw Critics Project 34
Doc Lab Poland 36
Open Workshop: The Art of Film Editing (by PSM) 43
Warsaw Industry Days catalogue: Editors: Małgorzata Dochniak, Arkadiusz Padyk Layout: Ryszard Miętkiewicz – Inside Materials supervised by: Fabryka Wyobraźni 4
Schedule of Warsaw Industry Days
Thursday, 19th October 2017 16:00 – 17:30 Dinner Kinoteka (1st floor) 17:30 Warsaw Screenings – BEYOND WORDS / Kinoteka 6 POMIĘDZY SŁOWAMI (92') 17:30 Warsaw Screenings – VOLTA / VOLTA (105') Kinoteka 5 19:05 Warsaw Screenings – BE PREPARED / CZUWAJ Kinoteka 6 (89') Warsaw Screenings – Shorts: SILENCE OF THE POLISH LAMBS / MILCZENIE 19:15 POLSKICH OWIEC (35') Kinoteka 5 VIRGIN WOODS / ZALESIE (33') HOW TO BECOME A POPE? / JAK ZOSTAĆ PAPIEŻEM? (16')
Friday, 20th October 2017 Works-In-Progress: 53 WARS / 53 WOJNY ETHIOPIQUES – REVOLT OF THE SOUL / ETHIOPIQUES 11:00 – 13:00 – BUNT DUSZY Kinoteka 7 FATIMA AND THE SECRET TREASURE / FATIMA I SEKRETNY SKARB VIA CARPATIA / VIA CARPATIA 13:00 – 14:30 Lunch Kinoteka (1st floor) Warsaw Industry Days – meetings 14:00 – 17:00 Kinoteka (1st floor) [email protected] Pitch & Meet – pitchings 15:00 – 17:00 Kinoteka 5 (organised by the Polish Film Institute) 17:00 Warsaw Screenings – CATALINA / Kinoteka 6 CATALINA (98') Warsaw Screenings – ONCE UPON A TIME IN 18:45 NOVEMBER / PEWNEGO Kinoteka 6 RAZU W LISTOPADZIE…(92') Warsaw Screenings – THE MAN WITH THE 20:20 MAGIC BOX / CZŁOWIEK Z Kinoteka 6 MAGICZNYM PUDEŁKIEM (103') Warsaw Industry Days Party 20:00 Harenda Club (co-financed by Norway Grants) 5
Saturday, 21st October 2017 Warsaw Industry Days – meetings 09:30 – 10:30 Kinoteka (café) [email protected] 10:00 Warsaw Screenings – HUGO / HUGO (78') Kinoteka 6 11:20 Warsaw Screenings – VOLTA / VOLTA ( 105') Kinoteka 6 13:00 Lunch Kinoteka (1st floor) Warsaw Screenings – Shorts: SILENCE OF THE POLISH LAMBS / MILCZENIE 14:00 POLSKICH OWIEC (35') Kinoteka 6 VIRGIN WOODS / ZALESIE (33') HOW TO BECOME A POPE? / JAK ZOSTAĆ PAPIEŻEM? (16') 6 WARSAW INDUSTRY DAYS
Warsaw Industry Days, this year’s industry activities at the Warsaw Film Festival, will take place 19-21 October 2017 and will be a continuation of our previous efforts in the field – CentEast Market. The aim of our new project is to promote Polish cinema internationally and to provide distribution opportunities. Warsaw Industry Days creates a great networking platform for sales agents, distributors, festival programmers and producers from all over the world.
PROGRAMME The programme of Warsaw Industry Days includes elements known form the past, as well as some new exciting events:
Pitch&Meet. Warsaw Coproduction Meetings Selected film projects will be presented to Polish and international members of the film industry (producers, festival programmers, distributors, sales agents). From the film projects presented at the pitching session Polish and international jury members will select one winning project that will be granted with 100 000 Euro prize. Apart from presenting film projects in the pitching session the invited filmmakers will take part in “one on one” meetings with Polish and international members of the film industry. Organised by the Polish Film Institute. First Cut Lab An event for the directors and producers of projects selected by Matthieu Darras, Benjamin Mirguet and Robert Baliński and Olga Domżała from PISF. Directors and producers will hear feedback on their films from leading industry representatives from international film festivals and sales agents. Organised by the Polish Film Institute in cooperation with the co- production forum When East Meets West.
Doc Lab Poland A programme for filmmakers-documentalists (directors and producers) who have already produced their first film. Doc Lab Poland is a meeting where experts and participants discuss the best solutions for documentaries in various stages of production and post-production. Organised by the Ślesicki Foundation.
Warsaw Screenings Presentations of the newest Polish films (fiction features, docs, and shorts), which have international potential, to international sales agents, distributors and festival programmers. Organised since 2000 by Warsaw Film Foundation.
Warsaw Works-In-Progress Presentations of selected works-in-progress from Poland, including co-productions (continuation of CentEast Market).
Warsaw Next Workshops for young Polish filmmakers (organised since 2011) who have at least one short film; meetings with professionals from Poland and abroad, lectures, participation in Warsaw Industry Days.
FIPRESCI Warsaw Critics Project Workshops for young and aspiring journalists and film critics, organised in collaboration with the International Federation of Film Critics (FIRPESCI).
Open Workshop „The Art of Film Editing” An event for everyone interested in editing, during which leading Polish editors reveal the secrets of their profession. Organised with Polish Film Editors Association.
Warsaw Industry Days are organised by the Warsaw Film Foundation, and our key partner is the Polish Film Institute. E-mail: [email protected] 7 8 9 10
Venues
RECEPTION / INFORMATION Marriott Warsaw Hotel, 65/79 Jerozolimskie Al., main lobby, ground floor
INFORMATION DESK Kinoteka, 1 Defilad Sq., lobby
WARSAW INDUSTRY DAYS STANDS Kinoteka (19th-21st October) Novotel Hotel (19th October only)
CONTACT TO MATCHMAKERS [email protected]
FESTIVAL HOTELS IMPORTANT: breakfast is included, but all extras (mini bar, phone, pay TV, etc.) the guests cover themselves. MARRIOTT 65/79 Jerozolimskie Al., Warsaw, +48 22 630 63 06 NOVOTEL 97/98 Marszałkowska St., Warsaw, +48 22 596 00 00 SOFITEL 11 Królewska St., Warsaw, +48 22 657 80 11
ACCESS TO WARSAW FILM FESTIVAL SCREENINGS – PICK UP YOUR TICKETS Your festival badge gives you access to the selected screenings. The festival badge is valid only with a free ticket, which should be picked up at box offices in the cinemas.
FESTIVAL CINEMAS MULTIKINO ZŁOTE TARASY is located at 59 Złota St. – screens 1, 2, 3, 4, about 350 metres north from Marriott Hotel, right behind WARSZAWA CENTRALNA railway station.
KINOTEKA is located at 1 Defilad Sq., in The Palace of Culture, the huge stalinist building about 350 metres from Marriott Hotel. Screens 1, 2, 3, 4 and 7 (Warsaw Industry Days events take place also in other rooms in KINOTEKA, including screens 5 and 6, café, hall and 1st floor).
ON-LINE CINANDO VIDEO LIBRARY The accredited guest will get a temporary account at the Cinando Video Library, which will be valid from October 12th till December 17th, 2017. The Video Library will inculde features and shorts from this year's Warsaw Film Festival selection, subjected to permission from the right's owners. www.cinandovl.com/warsawff 11 Map 12 13 Warsaw Industry Team
Stefan Laudyn general manager of the Warsaw Film Foundation
Małgorzata Dochniak Arkadiusz Padyk head of Warsaw Industry Days Warsaw Industry Days assistant
Marta Bałaga Dorota Orzechowska matchmaker matchmaker
Emilia Bravo Maciej Bruliński volunteer volunteer
Michał Gwardys Agnieszka Oryl Maks Piłasiewicz accreditation office programme and print traffic head of guest service coordinator 14
Warsaw Screenings – Feature Films 15 LIST OF FILMS
BE PREPARED / CZUWAJ, dir. Robert Gliński (Poland)
BEYOND WORDS / POMIĘDZY SŁOWAMI, dir. Urszula Antoniak (Poland, The Netherlands)
CATALINA / CATALINA, dir. Denijal Hasanović (Poland, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia)
HUGO / HUGO, dir. Wojciech Klimala (Poland)
THE MAN WITH THE MAGIC BOX / CZŁOWIEK Z MAGICZNYM PUDEŁKIEM dir. Bodo Kox (Poland)
ONCE UPON A TIME IN NOVEMBER / PEWNEGO RAZU W LISTOPADZIE… dir. Andrzej Jakimowski (Poland)
VOLTA / VOLTA, dir. Juliusz Machulski (Poland) 16
English title: BE PREPARED Original title: CZUWAJ Director: Robert Gliński
Country of production: Poland Year of production: 2017 Running time: 95’ Cast: Mateusz Więcławek, Zbigniew Zamachowski, Jakub Zając, Michał Włodarczyk, Magdalena Wieczorek
Producer: Włodzimierz Niderhaus Production company: WFDiF (Documentary And Feature Film Studios) 21 Chełmska St., 00-724 Warsaw, Poland www.wfdif.pl
Contact person: Jolanta Galicka, WFDiF +48 691 71 79 17 [email protected]
Sales: Jolanta Galicka, WFDiF +48 691 71 79 17 [email protected]
Urszula Piasecka, Monolith Films +48 501 694 044 [email protected]
Synopsis: A thriller that plays out in the teenage world of the internet and social media era. Two groups of boys from different social classes, representing two different value systems, confront each other as a result of a risky decision taken by adults. What was to be a lesson in responsibility and tolerance is transformed into a tough battle for leadership. On the one hand is faith in noble ideals, and on the other, the brutal law of the jungle. Young people, isolated from the outside world, sequestered in a tension-filled group, reveal their true, shocking natures. Another step – after ”Suicide Room” – on the journey to discover the truth about what influences young people’s choices today. A contemporary attempt to ask dramatic questions in the spirit of the famous ”Lord of the Flies”, in which the protagonists are poised on the brink of adulthood. 17
English title: BEYOND WORDS Original title: POMIĘDZY SŁOWAMI Director: Urszula Antoniak
Countries of production: Poland, The Netherlands Year of production: 2017 Running time: 85’ Cast: Jakub Gierszał, Andrzej Chyra, Justyna Wasilewska
Producers: Łukasz Dzięcioł, Piotr Dzięcioł, Floor Onrust Production company: Opus Film 29 Łakowa St., 90-554 Lodz, Poland www.opusfilm.com
Contact person: Agata Nykiel-Baraniak, Opus Film +48 42 634 55 08 [email protected]
Sales agent: Gisela Wiltschek, Global Screen +49 892 441 295 569 [email protected]
Synopsis: Michael, a 28-year-old lawyer from Berlin, is no different from his boss and friend, 34-year-old Franz. On Friday morning Michael stops speaking German and becomes a Polish man: Michałek. He meets Stanisław, his 55-year-old father from Poland. Michael is seeing him for the first time. Stanisław enters his son’s world more as a father symbol than a real father. He is Michael’s last link to Poland – the country he intentionally severed ties with. They are basically strangers. The men will spend a weekend together, which will leave a strong emotional mark on Michael as he realizes how alienated he is. 18 18
English title: CATALINA Original title: CATALINA Director: Denijal Hasanović
Countries of production: Poland / Bosnia and Herzegovina / Croatia Year of production: 2017 Running time: 98’ Cast: Andrea Otalvaro, Lana Barić, Andrzej Chyra, Mirjana Karanović
Producer: Krzysztof Grędziński Production company: Skorpion Arte 19/21 Chełmska St., lock. 406, 00-724 Warsaw, Poland www.skorpionarte.pl
Contact person: Denijal Hasanović +48 886 117 313 [email protected]
Synopsis: Catalina is studying law in France. She’s Colombian and her request to extend her stay has just been turned down. Writing an interesting paper might help. Catalina goes to Sarajevo to search for a topic in the materials of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. But when she gets there, she sees it’s not going to work out because she hasn’t been given permission to access the archive. Nada, a local interpreter, offers a helping hand, inviting Catalina to stay with her in Sarajevo. A friendship starts to develop. A film by a Bosnian director who graduated from the Lodz Film School. Featuring Andrzej Chyra in one of the leading roles. 19
English title: HUGO Original title: HUGO Director: Wojciech Klimala Co-director: Mateusz Wajda
Country of production: Poland Year of production: 2017 Running time: 78’ Cast: Zdzisław Misiak, Hugo Huang, Justyna Marek
Producer: Mateusz Wajda Production company: Film Bunch 4C/1 Stawki St., 00-193 Warsaw, Poland
Contact person: Agnieszka Rostropowicz-Rutkowska +48 500 228 298 [email protected]
Synopsis: Zdzisław Misiak, known as Dzidek, the retired king of amusement parks, lives with his 7 year-old grandson Hugo Huang in one of the left over barracks on the site of a once prospering business. The growing bond and relationship between them is valued above all, and the memory of Hugo’s mother, who passed away to soon leaving a scar in their hearts. A bitter-sweet story that will stay with you for a long time. Will you join Hugo on his carousel of life? 20
English title: THE MAN WITH THE MAGIC BOX Original title: CZŁOWIEK Z MAGICZNYM PUDEŁKIEM Director: Bodo Kox
Country of production: Poland Year of production: 2017 Running time: 103’ Cast: Olga Bołądź, Piotr Polak, Sebastian Stankiewicz, Helena Norowicz, Arkadiusz Jakubik, Wojciech Zieliński, Bartłomiej Firlet, Agata Buzek, Bartosz Bielenia, Anna Konieczna
Producers: Izabela Igel, Roman Jarosz Production company: Alter Ego Pictures 21 Chełmska St., lock. 422, 00-724 Warsaw, Poland www.alteregopictures.pl
Contact persons: Roman Jarosz, Alter Ego Pictures +48 782 130 469 [email protected]
Izabela Igel, Alter Ego Pictures +48 501 338 454 [email protected]
Sales agent: Matteo Lovadina, Reel Suspects + 33 6 14 45 62 78 [email protected]
Synopsis: Warsaw, 2030. Adam has just been stripped of his memory by the secret service. He moves into a deserted tenement and starts working as a cleaner in one of the city’s tallest office buildings. There, he meets Goria, a girl from a higher zone, and immediately falls in love with her. Goria is not indifferent to his charms, but considering the class difference, she keeps Adam at a distance for a long time before she agrees to date him. Meanwhile, cleaning his flat Adam finds an old radio from the 1950s. It turns out that the radio emits waves that enable teleportation. During one of his time travels, Adam gets stuck in 1952. Realizing she has lost her true love, Goria decides to find Adam in the past. An extraordinary comedy about time travel and love that overcomes all boundaries of spacetime. 21
English title: ONCE UPON A TIME IN NOVEMBER Original title: PEWNEGO RAZU W LISTOPADZIE… Director: Andrzej Jakimowski
Country of production: Poland Year of production: 2017 Running time: 92’ Cast: Agata Kulesza, Grzegorz Palkowski, Edward Hogg
Producer: Andrzej Jakimowski Production company: ZAIR (Zjednoczenie Artystów i Rzemieślników) 8/LU2 Zamiany St., 02-786 Warsaw, Poland www.zair.eu
Contact person: Kasia Kucia, ZAIR +48 501 647 248 [email protected]
Sales agent: Paul Bouchard, Wide Management +33 6 26 62 63 00 [email protected]
Synopsis: Warsaw, November 2013. Marky collects his mother from an allotment on the city outskirts. It’s too cold to stay there. With them there is a stray dog called Koleś who has been the mother’s companion. They go to Warsaw, where they’ve been evicted from their flat as a result of brutal housing policies. Since the mother doesn’t want to get rid of Koleś, she also loses her place at a homeless shelter. She chooses to remain homeless rather than lose her beloved pet. Frustrated and angry, Marky drives Koleś away. He soon feels remorse and tries to find the dog, without success. The mother ends up moving into a squat. Meanwhile, 11 November comes around, and with it the Independence March organized by nationalists. Riots break out near the march’s route. Masked assailants attack the squat. Marky and his mother experience the trauma of being victims of assault. The final scenes are played out against the background of actual events and include documentary footage shot on 11 November 2013.
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English title: VOLTA Original title: VOLTA Director: Juliusz Machulski
Country of production: Poland Year of production: 2017 Running time: 105’ Cast: Olga Bołądź, Andrzej Zieliński, Aleksandra Domańska, Michał Żurawski, Jacek Braciak, Cezary Pazura, Joanna Szczepkowska, Krzysztof Stelmaszyk, Tomasz Kot, Robert Więckiewicz, Katarzyna Herman
Producer: Juliusz Machulski Production company: Zebra Film Studio 61 Puławska St., 02-595 Warsaw, Poland www.zebrafilm.pl
Contact person Marcin Ogiński, Zebra Film Studio & Sales agent: +48 22 845 54 84 [email protected]
Synopsis: Aga is a pretty and smart girl. She is going through a crises in her relationship with Bruno, extremely brilliant but cynical lawyer and spin doctor who is now working on presidential campaign. Aga’s accidental meeting with her peer Viki, who founds a unique treasure, will result in total twists and changes in all film protagonists’ lives. The viewers will also learn unknown and interesting facts about Polish history. 23
Warsaw Screenings – Shorts 24 LIST OF FILMS
SILENCE OF THE POLISH LAMBS / MILCZENIE POLSKICH OWIEC dir. Maciej Stuhr (Poland)
VIRGIN WOODS / ZALESIE, dir. Julia Zborowska (Poland, Austria)
HOW TO BECOME A POPE? / JAK ZOSTAĆ PAPIEŻEM?, dir. Justyna Mytnik (Poland) 25
English title: SILENCE OF THE POLISH LAMBS Original title: MILCZENIE POLSKICH OWIEC Director: Maciej Stuhr
Country of production: Poland Year of production: 2017 Running time: 35' Cast: Eliza Rycembel, Agata Różycka, Zofia Domalik, Hanna Skarga, Dominika Kruszczyńska, Henryk Simon, Marcin Bubółka, Kamil Suszczyk, Dawid Ściupidro
Producers: Wojciech Malajkat, Marcin Perchuć, Maciej Stuhr Production company: National Academy of Dramatic Art in Warsaw, Acting Department 22/24 Miodowa St., 00-246 Warsaw, Poland www.at.edu.pl
Contact person: Danuta Janicka-Mierzwa, National Academy of Dramatic Art in Warsaw +48 22 635 96 22 [email protected]
Synopsis: In a cosy pub in one of the Polish cities, a series of more or less random meetings of young people takes place. Much divides them but they have one thing in common: they are all trying to find at least a thin thread of understanding with another human. Each of them does it their own way. 26
English title: VIRGIN WOODS Original title: ZALESIE Director: Julia Zborowska
Countries of production: Poland / Austria Year of production: 2017 Running time: 33' Cast: Ilona Ostrowska, Agnieszka Piszczek, Radek Chalama
Producer: Julia Zborowska Production company: Filmacademy Vienna, Institute of Film and Television 12 Metternichgasse, 1030 Wienna, Austria www.filmakademie.wien
Contact person Julia Zborowska & Sales agent: +43 699 194 788 02 [email protected]
Synopsis: 11-year old Joanna on the verge of womanhood, lies motionless in an icy cold river. She lives alone in the middle of the magical woods of Poland with her mother, who still hasn't gotten over the death of her husband. A story between dream and reality develops about a girl from ZALESIE and her innocent ideas about love and death. She strolls through the woods and suddenly an image of her lover appears. She arranges to meet him by the lake at dawn. This meeting turns out to be a real encounter with death, and finally forces Joanna to liberate herself from her naive ideas about romance. 27
English title: HOW TO BECOME A POPE? Original title: JAK ZOSTAĆ PAPIEŻEM? Director: Justyna Mytnik
Country of production: Poland Year of production: 2017 Running time: 16' Cast: Michał Stawiski
Producer: Marcin Malatyński Production company: PWSFTviT (Lodz Film School) 61/63 Targowa St., 90-323 Lodz, Poland www.filmschool.lodz.pl
Contact person: Krzysztof Brzezowski, Lodz Film School +48 42 275 59 47 [email protected]
Sales agent: Film Studio Indeks +48 515 123 369 [email protected]
Synopsis: A warm-hearted comedy about a ten year old boy who wants to become a Pope. The protagonist is an alter boy, who finds out about an audition for a part of John Paul II in a musical. The boy approaches this task as if it was a holy mission, but his parents do not treat him seriously. What is he going to learn? 28
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LIST OF FILMS
53 WARS / 53 WOJNY, dir. Ewa Bukowska (Poland)
ETHIOPIQUES – REVOLT OF THE SOUL / ETHIOPIQUES – BUNT DUSZY dir. Maciek Bochniak (Poland)
FATIMA AND THE SECRET TREASURE / FATIMA I SEKRETNY SKARB dir. Bartek Kik (Poland, Portugal)
VIA CARPATIA / VIA CARPATIA, dir. Klara Kochańska, Kasper Bajon (Poland) 30
English title: 53 WARS Original title: 53 WOJNY Director: Ewa Bukowska
Country of production: Poland Estimated delivery date: early 2018 Cast: Magdalena Popławska, Michał Żurawski, Dorota Kolak, Krzysztof Stroiński, Kinga Preis
Producer: Jacek Bromski Co-producers: Canal +, The Chimney Pot, Wojciech Kabarowski Digital Movies Production company: Munk Studio – Polish Filmmakers Association 85 Pańska St., 00-834 Warsaw, Poland www.munkstudio.eu
Contact person: Michalina Fabijańska, Munk Studio +48 604 474 254 [email protected]
Synopsis: Anna and Witek, a young married couple, are very much in love. He is a war correspondent who spends most of the year at the heart of raging conflicts. She spends her days waiting for him to come home. She tries to lead a normal life, but her fears turn out to be stronger than faith. She begins preparing herself for the worst... 31
English title: ETHIOPIQUES – REVOLT OF THE SOUL Original title: ETHIOPIQUES – BUNT DUSZY Director: Maciek Bochniak
Country of production: Poland Delivery date: November 20th, 2017 Cast: Girma Bèyènè, Amha Eshete, Francis Falceto, Alemayehu Eshete, Mahmoud Ahmed
Producers: Mikołaj Pokromski (Pokromski Studio), Izabela Łopuch, Hanka Kastelicova (HBO) Co-producer: Marie Noëlle (P’artisan Filmproduktion GmbH) Production company: Pokromski Studio 6A/10 Nowogrodzka St., Warsaw, Poland www.pokromskistudio.pl
Contact person: Igor Lesage, Pokromski Studio +48 505 171 865 [email protected]
Synopsis: The film tells the story of the beautiful and swingy seventies in Ethiopia. Our main characters, despite their dreams, will have to choose between survival under a murderous regime and exile. Their love for music will connect them on three different continents to continue the fight to preserve a unique musical treasure. 32
English title: FATIMA AND THE SECRET TREASURE Original title: FATIMA I SEKRETNY SKARB Director: Bartek Kik
Countries of production: Poland, Portugal Estimated delivery date: December 2018 Cast: TBD
Producer: Piotr Sikora (Poland) Co-producer: Imaginew (Portugal) Production company: Platige Image SA 99 Racławicka St., 02-634 Warsaw, Poland www.platige.com
Contact person: Wojciech Stuchlik, Platige +48 607 722 152 [email protected]
Synopsis: One day, Madalena discovers her mother’s secret journal. Using the directions from the journal, Madalena sets out on an adventurous journey through her hometown of Fatima. She is accompanied by her brother and their two new friends, whose identities remain unknown to her. During the expedition, Madalena learns the true meaning of friendship, loyalty, faith and betrayal. The secret that is finally revealed changes her life and the lives of those close to her. 33
English title: VIA CARPATIA Original title: VIA CARPATIA Directors: Klara Kochańska, Kasper Bajon
Country of production: Poland Estimated delivery date: early 2018 Cast: Julia Kijowska, Piotr Borowski, Bajram Severdžan
Producer: Agnieszka Kurzydło Co-producers: Klara Kochańska, Kasper Bajon, Julia Kijowska, Piotr Borowski, Zuzanna Kernbach, Julian Kernbach Production company: MD4 Sp. z o.o 25A Narbutta St., 02-536, Warsaw, Poland www.md4.eu Co-production companies: Chimney Poland, Kijora Film, Sound Mind – Michał Fojcik
Contact person: Dagmara Piasecka, MD4 +48 502 326 206 [email protected]
Synopsis: A young middle-class married couple sets out on a journey to Southern Europe which turns out not to be a nice camping trip. The couple is heading towards refugee camps on the Macedonian-Greek border. They don’t talk much about their destination or their marital problems, to which they have been turning a blind eye for a long time. However, they soon find themselves confronted with the socio-political situation of today’s Europe, as well as their own personal issues. 34 FIPRESCI Warsaw Critics Project
Warsaw Critics Project Applications
Warsaw Film Foundation and FIPRESCI training programme for young film journalists and film critics from Central and Eastern Europe. The 12th edition of the workshop will be held October 13-22, 2017 within the frames of 33rd Warsaw Film Festival. A group of young and carefully selected critics from Central and Eastern Europe will cover the festival and industry events, delivering film reviews and interviews for our partners – Cineruopa and FilmNewEurope, meet high-profile film professionals, take part in the deliberations of the festival’s FIPRESCI jury and present a special YOUNG FIPRESCI PRIZE for the best debutfrom Central and Eastern Europe. Our aim is to create an opportunity for participants, who usually have little chance to go abroad and work in their profession, to work with world-class professionals and have contact with world- class movie journalism. FIPRESCI Warsaw Project involves young film critics, who will be invited to the event and work under the editorial guidance of FIPRESCI members. The organizers will team-up with Film New Europe to give more exposure and promote emerging journalist talents. Workshops are designed for critics under the age of 30 with proficiency skills in written and spoken English. Previous participants include journalists currently contributing to major film and trade magazines, such as Screen International, IndieWire, The Hollywood Reporter, Cineuropa. Workshop coordinator: Marcin Łuczaj [email protected]
FIPRESCI Warsaw Critics Project – Tutors Carmen Gray is the former Film Michael Pattison currently di- Editor of Dazed & Confused vides his time between Gates- magazine and a freelance head, London and film festivals critic and journalist for Lon- — which he attends as a critic, don-based publications Sight programmer, Q&A moderator, & Sound, The Guardian, Screen teacher and jury member. Mi- International, The Calvert Jour- chael’s writing has been pub- nal, and Estonian culture week- lished by Sight & Sound, Fandor, ly Sirp. She also works as a consultant for Europe- Indiewire, Vice, Playboy, The Guardian, Film Comment, an production companies and is part of the team Cineaste and others, and he has also reviewed films launching independent cinema Wolf in Berlin. for BBC Radio. As a programming consultant and/or A member of the International Federation of Film Q&A moderator, Michael has worked for the Viennale, Critics, FIPRESCI she has served on a number of ju- Crossing Europe Linz, Bradford International Film Fes- ries at major festivals including Berlin, Toronto, tival, Kino Otok Isola Cinema, IndieLisboa, CurtoCircuí- Rotterdam and Locarno. She has a special interest to and Seville European Film Festival. In addition, he in the cinema of Central and Eastern Europe, and has tutored workshops for aspiring critics at Dokufest has previously taught critics’ workshops in Poland, (Prizen), ZubrOFFka Short Film Festival (Białystok) and Estonia and Serbia. Black Nights Film Festival (Tallinn). Michael has also ap- peared on juries at many festivals. 35 FIPRESCI Warsaw Critics Project – Participants
Monika Gimbutaitė, Lithuania Mikhail Morkin, Russia Monika Gimbutaitė, born in 1993 in Moscow-based film journalist. Lithuania, graduated from Vilnius He is a chief editor and critic for Academy of Arts, Art Theory and History Kinomania.ru. His work has appeared programme. For three and a half years in The Hollywood Reporter Russia, she held the position of a programme RussoRosso and Film Sense. He also coordinator at European Film Forum worked as programmer assistant Scanorama. She is currently working as at 2morrow Film Festival. Born in culture journalist for 15min.lt, the second Moscow in 1991, he holds a specialist’s biggest news website in Lithuania. degree in Linguistics from MSPU and is [email protected] currently studying for master’s degree in Transmedia Production from HSE. Alexander Gabelia, Georgia [email protected] Georgian film journalist and activist. He’s a political refugee from Abkhazia. Mina Stanikic, Serbia Alexander studied history of cinema and 24 year old film and theatre critic Cinematography at Ilia State University. based in Novi Sad, Serbia. Although He writes about cinema and culture finishing medicine studies, she took up in various prints and online outlets career as a cultural journalist, starting including LIBERALI.GE, AHA.GE and he’s in Kultur!Kokoška, a culture-dedicated a cinema reviewer for on-line magazine web magazine, slowly becoming – www.magnettemag.com. He’s been focused on film and theatre criticism. also involved into Tbilisi International Her articles have been published in Film Festival and Cinedoc Tblisi. various cultural magazines, mostly in [email protected] Serbian language. Mina is alumna of 11th Talents Sarajevo, where she took Arman Fatić, Bosnia part in Talent Press program, writing Arman Fatić is Bosnian film critic/ and publishing in English. In film journalist currently based in Maribor, criticism, she has particular interest Slovenia where he is studying philosophy in debut films, and the following at Faculty of Arts Maribor. He is a writer transition from short to feature for several websites/magazines across filmmaking. Mina works as a PR for balkans some of which are ziher.hr, snl. the Film Front, International short film ba and pulse.rs. His main fields of interest festival in Novi Sad, Serbia. as a film critic are society problems [email protected] in general and philosophical/religious symbolism in movies. Romanita Alexeev, Moldova [email protected] Romanița’s relationship with the film world isn’t limited to her fascination Jakub Wanat, Poland for it. It also extends to her fascination Film-lover, cinema-goer, festival-fanatic. with other people’s fascination for Both cinema and writing are my biggest it. She has started her journey in this passions, so I decided to combine industry by studying film production them, which basically means I killed and acting at the University of Salford, two birds with one stone. It all started United Kingdom. Later on, she returned with MAGIEL, Poland’s biggest students’ to her home-country, Moldova, where, magazine, where for almost two years I at the present moment, is directing and was the head of the film column. I was an online/tv series about Moldovan chosen as a Polish representative in film industry. the Venice Days jury at the 2017 Venice [email protected] Film Festival. I’m also the LUX prize ambassador and a proud member of the Scope100 project. I had a chance to write for Cineuropa, naEkranie and regularly for my blog. I’m studying both e-business and film studies, also having some time to work at a Polish start-up. [email protected] 36
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DOC LAB POLAND is the biggest in Poland program for development, consultation, presentation and promotion of Polish documentary films addressed to professional documentary filmmakers, divided into two parts: START – projects in development, and GO – projects at the editing. They are accompanied by DOC LAB POLAND CO- PRODUCTION MARKET organized at the Krakow Film Festival which is open for both Polish and international producers. It is the only co-production market in Poland. The program focuses on feature-length documentaries with international potential. Filmmakers consult their projects with renown filmmakers from Poland and abroad and learn how to present their films. The key events of DOC LAB POLAND are DOCS TO START and DOCS TO GO! pitching sessions with one-to-one meetings at the Krakow Film Festival. The last session organized as part of the Warsaw Film Festival is accompanied by lectures open to the public. In 2017 over 700 individual meetings for producers, sales agents, financiers, broadcasters and festival programmers have been organized as part of DOC LAB POLAND events in Krakow. DOC LAB POLAND was created in 2015 by The Władysław Ślesicki Film Foundation and is organized in association with Krakow Film Festival and in cooperation with DOK Leipzig, European Documentary Network and Warsaw Film Festival. Partners are: Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, Adam Mickiewicz Institute – Culture.pl, Foundation of Polish-German Cooperation, Polish Film Institute, City of Warsaw, Marshal of the Małopolskie Voivodeship, HBO Europe, Creative Europe Desk Poland, Warsaw Mazovia Film Commission, Mazovian Institute of Culture, Cracow Film Commission, Krakow Festival Office, Krakow Film Cluster, Krakow Technology Park, Institute of Documentary Film, National Chamber of Audiovisual Producers, MKZ Partners. Media Partners are: Co Jest Grane 24, Film & TV Kamera, Film Pro, Polish Docs, TVP Kultura. www.doclab.pl The Władysław Ślesicki Film Foundation focuses on training and development programs, film production and promotion of Polish cinematography. It also popularises films of Władysław Ślesicki, one of the most renowned Polish documentary filmmakers of the ’50s and ’60s. www.fundfilm.pl 38 THE GRADUATE (ABSOLWENT) 52’ DIRECTOR: ADRIAN APANEL PRODUCERS: MAŁGORZATA MAŁYSA, KAROLINA GALUBA, FURIA FILM PRODUCTION STAGE: DEVELOPMENT LOOKING FOR: CO-PRODUCERS, BROADCASTERS ‘The Graduate’ shows an absurd situation of job market, that graduates have to face. Protagonists share the same goal: to find a dream job. Enter the world where looking for a job is like a Kafka’s ‘Trial’. Welcome to life after graduation – the world of job centre appointments, cheap, shared flats, strange jobs, work interviews consisting of questions like “if you were a cornflakes box, which brand would that be?” and requirements set up so high, that they eliminate graduates at the very beginning. CONTACT: FURIA FILM, 27B/16 Zaruskiego St., 81-577 Gdynia, Poland, +48 794 389 337, [email protected]
THE GIRL FROM A BACKPACK (DZIEWCZYNKA Z PLECAKA) 52’/ 70’ DIRECTOR: KONRAD ŚNIADY PRODUCERS: MARIA WACHOWIAK, ANNA WALIGÓRSKA, NOPROB PRODUCTION HOUSE PRODUCTION STAGE: DEVELOPMENT LOOKING FOR: CO-PRODUCERS, BROADCASTERS, FINANCING, SALES AGENT She woke up, packed her suitcase, put the child on her back and left. She had 40 years of life behind her, 12 dollars a day to live, and countless miles to go unravelling before her. She’d named her daughter Gaya for a reason. Five years of travels later, the little „Mother Earth” has grown up big enough to go to school. Will she be able to teach her mom a lesson in everyday life? CONTACT: NoProb Production House, 5/13/183 Juliusza Słowackiego St., 01-592 Warsaw, Poland, +48 506 089 180, +48 530 229 949, [email protected], [email protected]
LESSONS OF LOVE (LEKCJE MIŁOŚCI) 52’ DIRECTOR: MAŁGORZATA GOLISZEWSKA PRODUCER: ANNA STYLIŃSKA, WARSAW FILM CENTER PRODUCTION STAGE: DEVELOPMENT LOOKING FOR: CO-PRODUCER & FINANCING “This part of life belongs to me!” says Jola, a 67-year-old eccentric colourful lady. After 30 years of marital nightmare, she decides to run away to her hometown Szczecin, to do finally what she’s always dreamt of: she dances, writes poems and songs. In her eyes, the world is always romantic, colourful, dramatic and exaggerated. One night, on a dancefloor, she meets Wojtek, a handsome old man, who falls for her. Unfortunately, a priest tries to discourage Jola from divorcing her abusive husband. Will Jola leave her past behind and accept new love against the religious beliefs? CONTACT: WARSAW FILM CENTER, 4/78 Wilsona Sq., 01-626 Warsaw, Poland, +48 605 404 647, [email protected] 39 A LETTER TO MY MUM (LIST DO MOJEJ MAMY) 52’ DIRECTOR: JĘDRZEJ MICHALAK PRODUCER: DARIA MAŚLONA, SILVER FRAME PRODUCTION STAGE: DEVELOPMENT /SHOOTING LOOKING FOR: DISTRIBUTORS, BROADCASTERS ‘A Letter to My Mum’ tells a personal story of the director who decides to write a letter to his dead mother – not with a pen, but with “a film”. He deals with different stages of grief in some uncommon ways: revealing to her what his life really is, following uncomfortable questions about their relation and fulfilling his mother dreams. Jędrzej started a video-conversation with his mother a few days after she died in 2012. At one point it simply started to be a film – this film. It follows the question: how does it feel to lose a mother? It is a film about love, finding strength in yourself and… saying goodbye. CONTACT: SILVER FRAME, 2/18 Rabsztyńska St., 01-140 Warsaw, Poland, [email protected]
MOLT (WYLINKA) 52’ DIRECTOR: OLAF MALINOWSKI PRODUCERS: MAŁGORZATA MJAŁYSA, KAROLINA GALUBA, FURIA FILM PRODUCTION STAGE: DEVELOPMENT LOOKING FOR: FINANCING, CO-PRODUCERS Andrzej escaped from civilization 30 years ago to live in deep woods. He lives with animals, helps them, understands and talks with them. His youngest, 4 year old daughter is an often guest in his forest. Now, after years, his other children that he left, want to trace him. Will he be able to face them? Is it possible to take responsibility for his past life and still be free and independent? CONTACT: FURIA FILM, 27B/16 Zaruskiego St., 81-577 Gdynia, Poland, +48 794 389 337, [email protected]
TODAY, TOMORROW… YESTERDAY (DZIŚ, JUTRO,... WCZORAJ) 56’ DIRECTOR: DIANA KADŁUBOWSKA, KRZYSZTOF KADŁUBOWSKI PRODUCER: KRZYSZTOF KADŁUBOWSKI, PLUS TV FILM STUDIO PRODUCTION STAGE: INITIAL SHOOTING LOOKING FOR: CO-PRODUCER, FINANCING, SALES AGENT “I was left with just my Mum, who had been terribly paralysed by the Holocaust, by its terror. I became her victim. For her it was a release, but for me, it was my own personal Holocaust.” This film is the story of a family and of difficult relations, set against the background of the Holocaust. 3 generations, 3 women, 3 different worlds, all connected through the same story. Judyta’s mother and grandmother have lived in conflict for many years. The past and the pain they have inflicted on each other has created a wall between them. Judyta has the key to the worlds of both women. Will she succeed in uniting the family? CONTACT: PLUS TV FILM STUDIO, 22 Lok. 154A Bukowińska St., 02-703 Warsaw, Poland, [email protected] 40 TRANSFER (TRANSFER) 70’ DIRECTOR: JOANNA ROŻEN PRODUCER: MARIA KRAUSS, PLESNAR & KRAUSS FILMS PRODUCTION STAGE: DEVELOMPENT LOOKING FOR: CO-PRODUCER, FINANCING, SALES AGENT IVF treatment clinic in Białystok is called „the last chance clinic”. The hopeful couples get there after years of attempts to get pregnant. This may be a turning point in their therapy – but also in their lives. Infertility hurts and touches most intimate sphere of their life. Their love reveals itself in the most difficult moments. Or it disappears. In the IVF procedure, there is a culmination point. Doctors call it TRANSFER. CONTACT: PLESNAR & KRAUSS FILMS, 8/3 Wiktorska St., 02-587 Warsaw, Poland, +48 605 935 018, [email protected]
WALL OF SHADOWS (ŚCIANA CIENI) 90’/52’ DIRECTOR: ELIZA KUBARSKA PRODUCER: MONIKA BRAID, BRAIDMADEFILMS PRODUCTION STAGE: DEVELOMPENT LOOKING FOR: FINANCING, BROADCASTERS The Sherpa family breaks a taboo and climbs Kumbhakarna – the most holy of mountains, in order to earn money for their son’s school and cut him away from their tradition. 13 year old Dava dreams of becoming a doctor. Nada, his father, wants Dava to continue the mountain-bound Sherpa tradition but knows it is a deadly profession. Dava’s mother, Jomdoe, insists the education is the only way to cut off from dangerous life. Nada is offered work on expedition to the holly mountain. He may earn big money but he will break a taboo and may be banned from the village. Will he face the wrath of mountain Gods? CONTACT: BRAIDMADEFILMS, 31 Alexandra, St., Leonards On Sea, TN37 6QP UK, + 44 78 81 755 548, [email protected]
YELTSIN DEATH BRIGADES. FREEDOM OR BOREDOM (YELTSIN DEATH BRIGADES. WOLNOŚĆ ALBO NUDA) 50’ DIRECTOR: KATYA SHADKOVSKA PRODUCER: MARIA BRZOSTOWSKA, STUDIUM PRZESTRZENI FILMOWEJ PRODUCTION STAGE: DEVELOMPENT LOOKING FOR: CO-PRODUCER, FINANCING, SALES AGENT Yeltsin Death Brigades is the grassroots subcultural organization that appeared in 2014 and count more than 25 000 members, for whom the figure of Yeltsin is the subversive symbol of the fall of the ‘Russian empire’. The intention of this formation was to openly fight the pro- Putin power. But since it is impossible to freely speak out in today’s Russia, the members of YDB are started being followed by the Federal Services, and the only option for them to express themselves is now through performative/happening practices which in subversive and metaphoric way cypher their anti-governmental message. The film will research the activity of YDB, trying to find out who is the main organizer and coordinator of the group. CONTACT: STUDIUM PRZESTRZENI FILMOWEJ, 6 Topolowa St., 66-340 Przytoczna, Poland, [email protected] 41 GEORGE AND GEORGE ON THE LAKES (JERZY I JERZY NA JEZIORACH) 30’ DIRECTOR: PIOTR MAŁECKI PRODUCER: PIOTR MAŁECKI, SHORTDOCS MEDIA PRODUCTION STAGE: FINAL SHOOTING AND EDITING LOOKING FOR: PARTNERS, FINANCING, SALES AGENTS, FESTIVALS, BROADCASTERS The carefree holidays of two old men become a fight against weakness and aging. Two friends: George and George are both 83. Enough to feel a bit old, but not enough to stay at home in slippers in front of the TV. At least not yet. They both sail each summer – together for over 20 years. On their own boats, carefully repaired and improved at home garage. Now one of the friends gets weaker, his hands tremble, eyes don’t see well enough, body has trouble keeping the balance. A series of minor accidents on the boat makes them both realize that this can be their last holidays together on the lakes. CONTACT: SHORT DOCS MEDIA, 31 Tetmajera St., 05-500 Piaseczno, Poland, +48 602 23 59 54, [email protected]
WEI®DY (DZIWO®) 53’ DIRECTOR: PAWEŁ DYLLUS PRODUCER: PAWEŁ DYLLUS, DYLLUS FILM PRODUCTION STAGE: POSTPRODUCTION LOOKING FOR: CO-PRODUCER, FINANCING, SALES AGENT The master and his student meet in order to set off on a trip together. The first deals with the past and makes his first in 25 years film as a director. The latter wants to capture the genius of Bogdan Dziworski: director, director of photography, photographer, film school professor, but most of all the man full of passion and with a childlike sensitivity – and a pure lunatic. ‘Wei®dy’ is an optimistic film about an unusual view of the world. Shakespeare wrote: „Though this be madness, yet there’s method in’t.” Looking at the film ‘Wei®dy’ one could easily say: „Though this be madness, yet there’s film in’t”. CONTACT: DYLLUS FILM, 34/36/70 Mickiewicza St., 01-616 Warsaw, Poland, +48 501 163 166, dyllus.film@gmail. com
DESSERT COFFEE (DESSERT COFFEE) 53’ DIRECTOR: MIKAEL LYPINSKI PRODUCERS: MAŁGORZATA KOZIOŁ, MIKAEL LYPINSKI, SALTON SEA FILMS, EFEKTURA PRODUCTION STAGE: COMPLETED LOOKING FOR: DISTRIBUTORS, SALES AGENTS, BROADCASTERS In California’s poorest desert region, a colorful group of regulars and their dogs gather at Rob’s internet cafe for free coffee and wifi in “the last free place in America”. Slab City is an anarchist squatter community. The inhabitants live in broken trailers with no running water, electricity, sewage system or trash pickup. Their closest neighbours are the US Navy and Marine Corps, who practice aerial bombing in the area. Temperatures are often extreme in the summer. Rob hates coffee but as soon as dawn breaks he meticulously brews coffee for the customers of his ramshackle internet cafe. CONTACT: EFEKTURA, 51A Miączyńska St., 02-637 Warsaw, Poland, +48 504 22 66 24, [email protected] 42 LONG WAY (DŁUGA DROGA) 57’ DIRECTOR: WERONIKA MLICZEWSKA PRODUCER: PIOTR MIKOŁAJCZAK, ROCK AND ROLL PRODUCTION PRODUCTION STAGE: COMPLETED LOOKING FOR: DISTRIBUTORS, AGENTS A young filmmaker embarks on an impossible journey traversing India in search of a mysterious woman who changed her life 6 years before. All that guides her is a photograph and a determination to find out what happens when you test the true nature of spiritual connection and the borders of rationality. Lead by ups and downs of misbelief and magical meetings, she wants to find out what is beyond the borders of rational possibility. Some people leave her with no hope, some say the woman is enlightened and it is her who searches for people to fulfill her mission. CONTACT: ROCK AND ROLL PRODUCTION, 20 Strumykowa St., 05-500 Piaseczno, Poland, +48 604 25 06 62, [email protected]
CALL ME TONY (MÓW MI TONY) 54’/ 70’ DIRECTOR: KLAUDIUSZ CHROSTOWSKI PRODUCER: MACIEJ THIEM, MAD TREE PRODUCTION STAGE: COMPLETED LOOKING FOR: SALES AGENT, DISTRIBUTORS, FESTIVAL PROGRAMMERS Tony is the nickname of an eighteen-year-old bodybuilder from a mining town who wants to become an actor. No matter how hard he tries he fails to impress his father, who in turn alienates himself from everyone else. When Tony fails at the bodybuilding competition he becomes depressed and overdoses the tranquilizers. He gets over it and a few weeks later he finds an casting for a film. He has to record a monologue addressed to a person that once had hurt him. Tony makes a recording addressed to his father. Will he finally be strong enough to follow his own desires and be a man of his own? CONTACT: MAD TREE, 52/3 Matejki St. , 60-770 Poznań, Poland, [email protected] 43 Open Workshop: The Art of Film Editing (by PSM)
THE POLISH ASSOCIATION OF FILM EDITORS
The Polish Association of Film Editors (PSM) is an organization founded in 2004to represent film editors who perceive themselves as active participants in the creative process of filmmaking, want to develop the craft of film editing and to advance the prestige and dignity of their profession. PSM members include renowned editors, co-creators of great feature films and documentaries, academic teachers, winners of the Polish Feature Film Festival in Gdynia and the Polish Film Awards.
The goals of the Association are to advance the art and science of film editing; to aim for the highest artistic and professional standards in the field; to encourage dialogue with other filmmakers, to educate the general public and to join initiatives aimed at developing and promoting Polish film art.
THE ART OF FILM EDITING A series of workshops organized by The Polish Association of Film Editors (PSM) for the Warsaw Film Festival since 2003. The purpose of workshops is to familiarize participants with the significance of editing process, its impact on the final form of a film and the role of the editor as co-creator of a film. The workshop is usually a study-case with a presentation and analysis of different cuts and practical demonstration of scene editing.
The Polish Association of Film Editors (PSM) Polskie Stowarzyszenie Montażystów PSM 30 lok. 600, Kopernika St., 00-336 Warsaw, Poland +48 22 827 38 17, +48 510 255 060 [email protected] www.psm.org.pl www.facebook.com/PolskieStowarzyszenieMontazystow 44 XIV WORKSHOP THE ART OF FILM EDITING
organized by PSM the Polish Association of Film Editors Wed., October 18th, 2017, 10:30-13:30 a.m. Kinoteka room 2, The Palace of Culture and Science free entrance
From script to editing – case study of ‘Beyond Words’ by Ursula Antoniak. The workshop held by Milenia Fiedler (editor) and Urszula Antoniak (script writer and director).
The workshop will focus on the significance of editing in finding the proper dramaturgical structure of the film. Film editing is often described as rewriting of a script. The audience will have an opportunity to learn how the original idea of the film is tested and developed during script writing, shooting and finally in the editing room. ‘Beyond Words’ is a Polish-Dutch co-production and had a world premiere at Toronto Film Festival in 2017.
Milenia Fiedler (film editor) and Urszula Antoniak (author of the script and the director) will reveal the details of their creative cooperation and demonstrate how the editing can change film narration. The participants will have an opportunity to see how editor-director cooperation shapes the film and what kind of dilemmas appear in the editing room.
‘Beyond words’ has been selected for screening during the Warsaw Film Festival in the International Contest.
Milenia Fiedler is an experienced Polish film and tv-editor, working with such prominent directors as Wajda, Majewski, Marczewski, Stuhr, Kox or Zaorski. She studied film editing on FAMU, Czech Republic. She obtained Ph.D in Film Art in 2005 and habilitation in 2009 from The Polish National Film, TV and Theatre School in Lodz. She is a member of the Polish Film Academy and European Film Academy (EFA).
Urszula Antoniak is a Polish film director and script writer living in Holland. She studied film production at Radio and TV School of the Silesian University in Katowice and film directing at Nederlandse Film en Televisie Academie (NFTA) in Amsterdam. Her first film ‘Nothing Personal’ won 5 awards in Locarno as well as several significant prizes and nominations, including Dutch awards for the Best Film and for the Best Directing. Her second film ‘Code Blue’ had a world premiere in Cannes (section ‘Quinzaine des Realisateurs’). 45
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