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DOCS TO START
PRESENTATION OF POLISH
DOCUMENTARIES IN DEVELOPMENT
4.06.2015
DOCS TO GO!
PRESENTATION OF UPCOMING
POLISH DOCUMENTARIES
5.06.2015
DOC LAB POLAND PRESENTED PROJECTS
PROGRAM DOC LAB POLAND
Docs To Start
DOC LAB START – II sesion
1 – 3.06.2015
Docs To GO!
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The Divines!
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21 x New York
Director: Barbara Białowąs, Katarzyna Trzaska
Producer: Katarzyna Trzaska
Director: Piotr Stasik
Producer: Agnieszka Wasiak
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I Would Like to Tell You
Everything
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The Hypnotist
Director: Zvika Gregory Portnoy
Producer: Maria Krauss
Director: Przemysław Kamiński
Producers: Anna Kępińska, Maciej Kubicki
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Diagnosis
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Jarocin – The Rise of Freedom
Director: Ewa Podgórska
Producer: Małgorzata Wabińska
Directors: Leszek Gnoiński, Marek Gajczak
ProducerS: Aneta Zagórska, Witold Bereś
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Where Are You, Teresa O.?
Director: Arkadiusz Bartosiak
Creative Producer: Paweł Nazaruk
Producer: Paweł Biniek
10.00 – 19.00
Individual consultations and workshop (closed)
DOCS TO GO
4.06.2015
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The End of the Valley of Tears
Director: Jarosław Wszędybył
Producer: Przemysław Miękinia
10.00 – 19.00
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At the Bottom of the Sea
Individual consultations and workshop (closed)
Director: Marcin Sauter
Producer: Barbara Ławska
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New Blood
Director: Paweł Ziemilski
Producer: Łukasz Długołęcki, Haukur M.
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Noiselessly
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Mr Jan And His 40 Girls
Director: Jacob Dammas
Producer: Jacob Dammas
Directors: Giles Lepore, Maciej Mądracki,
Michał Mądracki
Producer: Anna Wydra
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Such a Little Town Batory
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Trophy
9.30 Welcome Coffee
Director: Anna Dejczer
Producer: Anna Dejczer
Directors: Mateusz Romaszkan,
Marta Wójtowicz‑Wcisło
Producer: Kuba Kosma
10.00 – 13.00 Public Presentations (MOS‑1)
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The Wind
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When You Return
Director: Michał Bielawski
Producer: Maciej Kubicki, Anna Kępińska
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Ahead of Bill
DirectiOR: Anna Zamęcka
ProducerS: Anna Wydra,
Zuzanna Król–Maziarzewska,
Anna Zamęcka
Director: Paulina Gawęcka
Producer: Tomasz Gaj
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Walking Spark!
Director: Marcin Kopeć
ProducerS: Dawid Janicki, Joanna Szymańska
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White Cube
Director: Wojciech Pustoła
Producer: Marta Golba
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The Dragon Spring
Director: Jarosław Wszędybył
Producer: Magdalena Bryk
Docs To Start SPECIAL GUESTS
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People, Animals And Things
Director: Aistė Žegulytė
Producer: Giedrė Burokaitė
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El Padre Medico
Director: Vytautas Puidokas
Producer: Paulius Juoceris
SPECIAL
GUEST
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Land of the Homeless
Director: Marcin Krawczyk
Producer: Marcin Krawczyk
DOCS TO START
4.06.2015
13.00 – 14.00 Lunch (Pauza‑In‑Garden)
14.00 – 17.00 One‑To‑One Meetings (MOS‑3)
17.00 – 18.00 Cocktail (MOS – Industry Zone Meeting Point)
21.00 Industry Party (Metaforma Cafe, ul. Powiśle 10)
DOCS TO GO
5.06.2015
9.30 Welcome Coffee
10.00 – 13.00 Public Presentations (MOS‑1)
13.00 – 14.00 Lunch (Pauza‑In‑Garden)
14.00 – 17.00 One‑To‑One Meetings (MOS‑3)
17.00 – 18.00 Cocktail (MOS – Industry Zone Meeting Point)
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ORGANIZERS
ORGANIZERS
Adam
Ślesicki
director
DOCS TO GO!
ph. T.Korczynski
DOC LAB POLAND / DOCS TO START
Barbara
Orlicz
PRODUCER
Katarzyna
Ślesicka
Katarzyna
Wilk
director
Program /
coordinator
Weronika
Czołnowska
program
Kinga
Gałuszka
Program
coordinator
Anna
Zajączkowska
Marta
Sikorska
coordinator
Promotion
Iwona
Kamińska‑Gosk
Kamil
Mularz
press oficer
Assistant
DOC LAB POLAND – the biggest Polish
pitching and consultation program for
professional documentary filmmakers. The
program is divided into two parts: DOC
LAB START, for projects in development or
at initial shooting stage, and DOC LAB GO,
for projects at the editing stage and with
first cuts ready.
DOC LAB POLAND is created by The
Władysław Ślesicki Film Foundation,
in association with the Krakow Film
Festival and in cooperation with DOK
Leipzig and European Documentary
Network – representatives of these
institutions will participate in both parts,
evaluating the submitted projects and
providing consulting for the selected
ones. Applications for both parts are open
to Polish or Poland‑based filmmakers
who have already produced their first
projects. This is not a training program,
but a consultation one, where consultants
and participants are equal partners; they
have discussions and jointly look for best
solutions for the submitted projects.
The program focuses on auteur
documentaries with a creative approach
– not only dealing with social, but also
historical and educational issues, as well
as sports and music. It welcomes projects
where the author’s point of view and his
interpretation is significant, and which
are not just observation of reality. The
program is aimed at Polish filmmakers
who wish to consult their projects or edit
versions with the support of other artists
and consultants (renown filmmakers
from Poland and abroad) in the search
for new solutions and want to present
their films to an international group
of producers, distributors, representatives
of institutions supporting film production,
film co‑financing institutions, major film
festival selectors, TV commissioning
editors, and others.
The key events of DOC LAB POLAND
are DOCS TO START and DOCS TO GO!
pitching sessions held at the Krakow Film
Festival. DOCS TO START is a presentation
of Polish projects in development stage
followed by co‑production forum:
one‑to‑one meetings with international
decision‑makers, and producers who
are open to cooperation with Poland.
DOCS TO GO! initiated and co‑organized
by Polish Film Institute since 2012 is
a presentation of Polish documentary
rough‑cuts followed by meetings with
buyers and programmers.
www.doclab.pl
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Władysław Ślesicki Film Fundation
DOC LAB POLAND is the most important initiative of the Władysław Ślesicki
Film Foundation. The Foundation focuses on training and development
programs, mainly concentrated on documentary films, film production
and promotion of Polish cinema. One of the goals of the foundation is also
popularising films of Władysław Ślesicki, one of the most renowned Polish
documentary filmmakers of the ‘50s and ‘60s.
The founders: Adam and Katarzyna Ślesicki, while working for many years for
Wajda School & Studio, have produced dozens of documentary films, awarded
at international festivals, including Oscar nomination. They have also run
training programs for emerging producers and documentary directors.
Our mission is to strengthen the position of Polish, especially feature
documentary films on the international market. We believe this goal can be
achieved by linking high artistic values with the audience‑oriented approach.
www.fundfilm.pl
KRAKOW FILM FOUNDATION
For more than ten years, Krakow Film Foundation has been actively
supporting the promotion of Polish documentary cinema through a series
of actions for the benefit of the films, filmmakers and producers. Thanks
to the Polish Docs project, Polish documentary cinema reaches the cinema
halls and the audience of several hundred international film festivals around
the world winning more than 100 awards per year, the filmmakers have the
chance to meet international viewers and the producers have an easier access
to the international film market. For the same purpose we organise the fourth
edition of Docs to go! – a joint initiative of Polish Film Institute and Krakow
Film Foundation, presentation of Polish documentary films in post‑production,
organised this year in co‑operation with Doc Lab Poland. The projects shown
previously had their international premières at the most important film
festivals (IDFA, Hot Docs, Locarno FF, DOK Leipzig, Moscow FF) and won
a number of prestigious awards. We count on that the next 12 projects, shown
this year, will follow in their footsteps.
www.kff.com.pl
Polish Film Institute
Polish Film Institute celebrates its 10th anniversary this year. Throughout
the decade documentary film has been one of our priorities. Our dream was
to bring back the spirit of the legendary ‘Polish School of Doc’. We succeeded,
thanks to many wonderfully talented and creative filmmakers, both veteran
and first‑timers. Polish documentaries are being shown, and awarded, at top
international festivals.
We’re proud to present the 4th edition of the Docs To Go! program – and this
anniversary year’s twelve great projects. We’re keeping our fingers crossed for all
them. And in the upcoming decade we wish all the Polish documentary filmmakers
even more passion, relentlessly inquiring gaze, and worldwide audiences hooked
on Polish docs.
www.pisf.pl
DOC LAB POLAND is organized by the Władysław Ślesicki Film Foundation, in
association with the Krakow Film Festival. Co‑organizers of the program are: HBO
Europe, Creative Europe Desk Poland, Warsaw‑Mazovia Film Commission, Mazovian
Institute of Culture, Cracow Film Commission, Krakow Festival Office, Polish Film
Institute. Partners are: Lithuanian Film Centre, DOK Leipzig, European Documentary
Network, Film Commission Poland, National Chamber of Audiovisual Producers, Media
Patron of the program are: Wyborcza.pl, Gazeta Wyborcza, Film & TV Kamera, Film Pro.
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TUTORS
TUTORS
Leena Pasanen
Maria Zmarz‑Koczanowicz
Managing and Artistic Director of DOK Leipzig, the international film festival for
documentary and animated film; expert, tutor and lecturer at several training
Programmes (EDN, Discovery Campus, EURODOC and Television Business
School). A member of the international advisory committee at Hot Docs. A board
member of IDFA Forum, INPUT and the Bonnier’s Journalistic Award in Finland;
also served as a jury member at several international festivals, among others
Sundance and IDFA. The head of the Finnish Institute and a cultural attaché
at the Finnish Embassy in Budapest in 2011ñ2014. Previously director of EDN,
European Documentary Network in Copenhagen. Since 1993 worked for Finnish
Broadcasting Company YLE as a reporter, political commentator, subeditor and TV
presenter; Head of Documentaries for YLE TV1 (1999‑2000), Head of Programmes
responsible for cultural, factual and fiction programmes in YLE Teema, Coordinator
of Programmes at YLE Fact and Culture and Coordinator and Senior Advisor at
YLE Media and Customer Relations.
A graduate of the Faculty of Radio and Television at the University of Silesia in
Katowice (1982) and of the Painting Department at the Academy of Fine Arts.
A director of the feature film “Kraj świata” (1993) and almost 50 documentaries,
among others: “I Am a Man” (1985), “The Office” (1986), “The Bread Monger”
(1988), “I Don’t Believe Politician’s (1989), “Bara, Bara” (1996), “Turn Me into
a Long Snake” (1997), “A Night with the General” (2001), “Generation 89” (2002),
“Dziennik.pl” (2004) and numerous portraits of the most important personalities
of Polish culture: Irena Krzywicka, Jerzy Turowicz, Jerzy Grotowski, Czesław
Miłosz, Leszek Kołakowski, Krzysztof Kieślowski. A winner of numerous festival
awards, among others, in Paris, Gdańsk and Krakow. A lecturer and tutor at the
Film School in Łódz.
Paul Pauwels
Director of the European Documentary Network. Previously Managing Director
for the Belgium production company Congoo bvba. Paul has a long track
record of working with international documentary co‑productions from both
a commissioning and production point of view. He has been the managing director
of the media academy ETMA, commissioning editor for the Belgium public
service broadcaster VRT and has almost 30 years of experience with producing
documentaries for the national and international market. A tutor, moderator
and expert at many European workshops and seminars, member of Eurovision
Documentary Workgroup and one of the first Chairmen of EDN.
Irena Taskovski
The founder and Managing Director of Taskovski Films, producer
of documentaries, incl. “Village B” dir. Filip Remunda (Best Documentary at
Karlovy Vary in 2002) and “Czech Dream” dir. Vit Klusak and Filip Remunda (Best
Czech Documentary 2004 Jihlava IDFF, FIRPESCI prize at IFF Ljubljana 2004, Best
Documentary San Francisco Film Fest Denmark 2004). In autumn 2007 founded
the Film Institute in Banjaluka and initiated the Banjaluka International Film
Festival. A jury member at the Festroja IFF Portugal 2005, the Trieste FF 2008, the
Krakow IFF 2008, and ZagrebDox 2009. She is a lecturer and tutor (the Prague
Film Academy (FAMU), the Prague Institute of Documentary Film, SOURCES 2
Script Development Workshop and many different panels). A jury member at:
Festroja IFF Portugal 2005, Trieste FF 2008, Krakow IFF 2008, ZagrebDox 2009,
Vilnius IFF 2011, DOK Leipzig 2011.
Rada Šešiċ Born in Croatia, lived in Sarajevo, worked as a film critic and a film maker,
now lives in The Netherlands. Program advisor of IFFR, is on the HB Fund
selection comity. One of the selection comity members of IDFA. Head of the
documentary competition at Sarajevo FF and co‑head of the Docu Rough Cut
Boutique. Previously Master of the NFTA Amsterdam and lecturer at University
of Amsterdam at Film and Media studies. Artistic director of the Eastern
Neighbours FF in The Hague. Mentor at documentary workshops in Europe
and Asia. Her films were screened at some 60 festivals, exhibited and bought
by MOMA.
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Paweł Łoziński
Director, scriptwriter and producer of documentary and fiction films born in 1965
in Warsaw. He earned his degree from the Film Directing Department of Łódź
Film School. His numerous documentary films include Birthplace (1992), The Way
It Is (1999), Sisters (1999), Between the Doors (2004), Wygnańcy (2005), Kitty,
Kitty (2008) and Chemo (2009). He has won prestigious awards at festivals in
Bornholm, Paris, Leipzig and Krakow.
Bartek Konopka
Director, scriptwriter, journalist. His documentary “Goat Walker” (2004) was
awarded at Berlinale 2004. Short fiction “Three For The Taking” (2006) was one
of the most awarded Polish short. Documentary “Rabbit a la Berlin” received over
20 awards, was nominated for an Oscar, broadcasted in 40 countries, shown at
70 festivals. His feature fiction debut “Fear of Falling” (2011) premiered in IFF
Montreal, was awarded in Mannheim, Mumbai, Lecce, Vincennes, Gdynia. In 2013
he made “The Art of Disappearing” (Special Mentions in RIDM Montreal and IFF
Jihlava) and directed Polish version of In Treatment for HBO Poland. Bartek was
granted by Polish Ministry of Culture and Nipkow Berlin scholarships. Participated
in EAVE, Documentary Campus and Ex Oriente workshops. Led master classes in
Germany, Lithuania, Poland. A member of EFA and Polish Film Institute Board.
Wojciech Staroń
Graduate of the Cinematography Department of the Polish Film School in Lodz
and of the Postgraduate Programme at the Institute of Developing Countries
of Warsaw University. Cinematographer of many documentaries, feature films
(among others “Plac Zbawiciela” by Krzysztof Krauze) and TV shows. He is also
professionally occupied with photography and has had a number of individual
exhibitions and awards (for example the Grand Prix Europeen de la Photographie
in Lille, 1991). In 2001‑2003 he cooperated with the Centre National de Danse
Contemporaine in Angers, where he worked on multimedia projections
accompanying shows directed by Régis Obadia.
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DOCS TO START
PRESENTATION OF Polish documentaries in development
4.06.2015
9.30
Welcome Coffee
10.00 – 13.00
Public Presentations (MOS‑1)
13.00 – 14.00
Lunch (Pauza‑In‑Garden)
14.00 – 17.00
One‑To‑One Meetings (MOS‑3)
17.00 – 18.00
Cocktail (MOS – Industry Zone Meeting Point)
21.00
Industry Party (Metaforma Cafe, ul. Powiśle 10)
dir. Barbara Białowąs, Katarzyna Trzaska
The Divines!
The film is the portrait of three courageous young women – graduates of fine art academy – facing lack
of money, extreme opinions on their art and hard rivalry in the art milieu. This is also a story of becoming
a grown‑up, about losing one’s illusions and a severe clash of high academic expectations with the
everyday compromises.
Ada Kaczmarczyk (“Adu”), Dominika Olszowy and Maria Toboła (ex‑duet “Cipedrapskuad”) – all fine
art academy graduates and friends live and work in Warsaw. Their work combine photography, video
art, performance, sculpture, theatre set design. Their songs attracted both a huge group of Internet fans
(70 000) as well as hate reactions due to provocation and slang erotic language.
Girls set for themselves ambitious goals to be obtained within 2 years: they want to be famous,
recognized, able to live on their art. We would like to follow their artistic and private paths and see if
they succeed.
So far, they had to pay big prices for their first successes: 31‑year‑old Dominika and her boyfriend,
a talented sculptor, struggle with a lack of money, 28‑year‑old Maria, fights with the “golden youth”
image and bourgeoisie stereotypes, 30‑year‑old Ada suffers from anorexia and overprotective parents.
It is not going to be a typical film on art – it is going to be a film on three women who are extraordinary in
their art and ordinary in their lives. It is going to convey universal message, understandable, not only for
Polish, but also for European viewer.
Original title: Boskie!
English title: The Divines!
Director: Barbara Białowąs,
Katarzyna Trzaska
DOP: Aleksander Duraj, Filip Cichecki
Editor: Marek Kucharski
Producer: Katarzyna Trzaska
Production company: ZYGIZAGA
Production country: Poland
Production stage: development
Shooting format: HD
Estimated running time: 60’
Language: Polish
Shooting period: JANUARY 2015 –
DECEMBER 2017
Postproduction: JANUARY 2018 – JUNE 2018
Estimated date of Film delivery: JULY 2018
Total budget: 120 000 EUR
Secured budget: 15 000 EUR
Still needed: 105 000 EUR
Confirmed co‑producers, funds,
distributors, broadcasters: equipment
contributor Mediolia Aleksandra Skowron
Looking for: TV station, coproducers,
pre‑buys,
Katarzyna
Trzaska
DIRECTOR, PRODUCER
A film director, script writer, producer. Katarzyna Trzaska’s documentary debut
after studying at the Krzysztof Kieslowski’s Department of Film and Television in
Katowice, in Poland: “10 Years to Nashville” was shown at 11 festivals in Poland
and abroad and received numerous awards. Author of “Maximum Pleasure” and
“Village of Swimming Cows” (preproduction). She is a member of the Board
of Polish Female Filmmakers Association.
Katarzyna Trzaska’s production debut was a documentary film “Maximum
Pleasure” (48min, 2014) co‑produced with Polish National TV, portraying a group
of female pensioners fascinated with buying expensive household gadgets.
The film was shown at competitions of 9 prestigious international film festivals,
including Vision du Reels in Switzerland and Festroia in Portugal. Currently
Katarzyna Trzaska produces a documentary film “The Village of Swimming Cows”
showing clash of attitudes towards ecology and wildlife of German eco enthusiasts
and Polish farmers in a beautiful Biebrza National Park. The co producers are TVP
SA and INDIFILM from Germany.
Contact: Katarzyna Trzaska, [email protected],
tel +48 694 603 212, ul. Równa 17/6, 03‑418
Warsaw Poland
Director’s email: [email protected];
[email protected]
Barbara
Białowąs
DIRECTOR
The author of number of short films, including “Eve, jump!”, the award –
winning “Candy”. As part of the “Poland – Russia. New Gaze” project, she made
a documentary titled “Moscow Wife”, shot in Russia. In 2009, her short film
“My New Life” won the Koszalin Screen Debuts Festival “Young and Cinema”. In
2012 she completed her full‑feature debut “Big Love” (it won Discovering Eye
Emerging Artist Award at the 24th edition in the PFF in America, held in Chicago).
Participant of Berlinale Talents. Since 2012 a lecturer of media and film at the
Opole University, and tthe University of Wroclaw. President of Polish Female
Filmmakers Association.
ZYGIZAGA’s production debut was a documentary film “Maximum Pleasure”
(48min, 2014) co‑produced with Polish National TV, portraying a group of female
pensioners fascinated with buying expensive household gadgets. The film was
shown at competitions of 9 prestigious international film festivals, including Vision
du Reels in Switzerland and Festroia in Portugal. Currently ZYGIZAGA produces
a documentary film “The Village of Swimming Cows” showing clash of attitudes
towards ecology and wildlife of German eco enthusiasts and Polish farmers in
a beautiful Biebrza National Park. The co producers are TVP SA and INDIFILM
from Germany.
DOcs to start
Polish documentaries
in development
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dir. Zvika Gregory Portnoy
I Would Like to Tell You Everything
Original title: CHCIAŁBYM CI POWIEDZIEĆ
WSZYSTKO
English title: I WOULD LIKE TO TELL YOU
EVERYTHING
Director: ZVIKA GREGORY PORTNOY
DOP: ZUZANNA SOLAKIEWICZ
Editors: ZUZANNA SOLAKIEWICZ, MATEUSZ
ROMASZKAN
Producer: MARIA KRAUSS
Production company: PLESNAR & KRAUSS
FILMS, SYBILLA FILM
Production country: POLAND
Production stage: IN PRODUCTION
Shooting format: 16 x 9, HD
Estimated running time: 79’
Language: Polish, English subtitles
Shooting period: MARCH 2014- OCTOBER 2015
Postproduction: NOVEMBER 2015- MARCH 2016
Estimated date of Film delivery: APRIL 2016
Zvika Gregory
Portnoy
DIRECTOR
A graduate of photography at the Academy of Art and Design BEZALEL (2007,
Jerusalem) and the Faculty of Direction of Photography and Film Direction at
the Sam Spiegel School for Cinema (2011, Jerusalem). Member of the Israeli
Association of Photographers. Author of photographic and video- art exhibition
(i.e: “A moment before leaving” in Jerusalem, “Israeli beauty” in Tel Aviv). Dop
to a number of shorts and feature diploma films and documentaries. Since 2011
he has lived and worked in Poland (at that time directed the documentary short
film and has photographed two other documentaries). Since 2012 he has been
a member of the Association of Polish Filmmakers “Koło Młodych”.
Total budget: 100 000 EUR
Secured budget: 35 000 EUR
Still needed: 65 000 EUR
In every human being, love to his child is deeply encoded. This movie is about parental love that desires
to be fulfilled, but was suddenly interrupted. The protagonists did not choose to be isolated for many
years from their children. It was a side effect of their criminal life. Their relation to the children is the
only one dimension of their innocence that have not been ruined yet.
One was a professional financial offender. Other hit a man to death. Third has almost killed his ex‑wife
with a knife, in public. Three tough criminals, being locked in long‑term offenders’ jail, are strongly
fighting with their former life and present reality to be good people. The film has a form of video‑letters
of protagonists to their children with whom they lost a contact many years ago, while going to prison.
They sit alone in front of the camera, looking straight into lenses, deal with crucial questions: Do they
deserve to be fathers to their children? And if yes, what they can do for them? After years of isolation and
lack of contact is it still possible?!
They are ordinary human beings with no intellectual background. At the beginning the word “I love
you” is not filled with emotions. When their words are finally full of true love, they fall into despair.
Why? Because they realize their love have no recipient. The end is tragic. Life is passing by. The time
they struggle to change themselves and prove their children they are good people, puts them in front
of a painful fact: they win – but the victory is to realize and accept the loss.
Maria
Krauss
Confirmed co‑producers, funds,
distributors, broadcasters: –
Looking for: co‑producers, funds,
distributors, broadcasters
Contact: Plesnar & Krauss FILMS Sp. z o.o., ul.
Wiktorska 8 lok. 3, 02‑587 Warsaw, Poland,
tel. + 48 605 935 018
Producer’s email: [email protected]
Director’s email: Zvika Portnoy
[email protected]
PRODUCER
Born in 1981, filmmaker and historian. Graduated in history at Warsaw University,
in the past literary magazine and books editor. Collaborator of historical
institutions i.e Historical Museum of Warsaw. In 2007 started to work with
film producer Ozumi Films In 2012, with Joanna Plesnar founded a production
company Plesnar & Krauss FILMS. She worked on such a titles: “At the Edge
of Russia” by Michał Marczak (doc.), “The Art of Chopin” by Gerald Caillat;
(doc.), “The Dead and The Living” by Barbara Albert (feat.), “Bloody daughter”
by Stephanie Argerich (doc.), “Nous filmons le peuple!”, by Ania Szczepanska
(doc.), “Secret Sharer”, by Peter Fudakowski (feat.), “Strange Heaven”, by Dariusz
Gajewski (feat.).
Plesnar & Krauss FILMS is a production company founded by Joanna Plesnar
and Maria Krauss in 2012. We have been working together for many years,
therefore the idea to establish a company came as a natural one. We specialize in
international co‑production (with a very wide spectrum of genres), film services
on each stage of production. Our passions and interests are reflected in the
films which have already been finished, or the ones we have been working on
i.e.: Polish‑French co‑production “The Art of Chopin” by Gerald Caillat, “Bloody
daughter” by Stephanie Argerich, Polish‑Norwegian “Salt” by Maria Lloyd; French
documentary “The Yatzkans” by Anna Kendall‑Yatzkan; on Polish‑Indian “Jam
Saheb’s children” by Magdalena Łazarkiewicz; French‑Polish co‑production
“We Film the People”! by Ania Szczepanska.
DOcs to start
Polish documentaries
in development
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dir. Ewa Podgórska
Diagnosis
Original title: DIAGNOZA
English title: DIAGNOSIS
Director: Ewa Podgórska
DOP: Maciej Twardowski
Editor: tba
Producer: Małgorzata Wabińska
Production company: Entertain Studio
Production country: Poland
Production stage: development
Shooting format: HD, 16:9
Estimated running time: 60’
Language: POLISH, FRENCH
Shooting period: SEPTEMBER 2015 – APRIL 2016
Postproduction: MAY 2016 – NOVEMBER 2016
Estimated date of Film delivery:
DECEMBER 2016
Total budget: 90 000 EUR
Secured budget: 30 000 EUR
Still needed: 60 000 EUR
The world’s first ever urban psychoanalyst comes from France to a city in the heart of Poland, invited
by its residents. He lays the city on the therapeutic couch, defines its traumas, goes back in history and
provides diagnoses.
“Diagnosis” is positively psychedelic. The film’s narrative is inspired by the actual process of therapeutic
sessions. Laurent invites the city’s residents to his couch and starts with seemingly banal and abstract
questions (“What animal is your city?”, “If the city were a human body, in which part of it would You
live?”) When asked about the city, his subjects begin to reveal the most internal issues of citizens – the
feeling of suspension and alienation, their ambitions and desires.
The camera follows some of the residents. Marked by an emotional intensity, it travels through the
labyrinths of the city, going into the residents’ private lives only to come back to the starting point, i.e. the
therapeutic couch. The diversity of places, people and events contributes to an image of a contemporary
post‑industrial metropolis. Reaching the city’s hidden subconscious, which influences the residents’ lives, will become the
psychoanalyst’s chief goal. He believes that acquiring consciousness and discovering one’s identity may
bring about changes and true happiness.
Ewa
Podgórska
DIRECTOR
Graduated from National Film School in Łódź and University of Łódź (filmology
and journalism). She also graduated DOK PRO – documentary program at
Wajda School. Her documentary school film “Love” was released on DVD with
the best school films. Her debut was “The chicken and the egg”, 26 minute long
documentary film about difficult relation between mother and daughter. World
premiere was on Festival Film de Femmes in Paris. Film was released on dvd
“The best Polish debut 2012”. She also wrote script to full – length documentary
film – “Beyond mountains”. Presently, she is during postproduction of 52min.
documentary – “Blind course” abut blind sailors.
Confirmed co‑producers, funds,
distributors, broadcasters:
Polish Film Institute (development fund),
Polish Institute in Paris, Toya Studios
Looking for: co‑producer, broadcaster
Contact: Entertain Studio, Piotrkowska 276
lok. B2, 90‑361 Łódź, Poland,
tel. +48 515 579 790 www.entertainstudio.pl
Producer’s email: [email protected]
Director’s email: [email protected]
Małgorzata
Wabińska
PRODUCER
Graduated of the Film and TV Production Department at the National Film School
in Łódź and Program for Creative Producers at Wajda School. Studied also
Economy and Econometrics at University of Łódź. Participant of the following
programs: MAIA Workshops and SCENE Insiders.
She has experience at different stages of film and tv production, sound
postproduction coordination and marketing and PR. She was also manager of one
of the largest sound studios in Poland and one of the creators of a project about
the first Postwar Film Factory in Łódź. Entertain Studio is a film production company based in Łódź, established in
2013 by Małgorzata Wabińska, who has almost 10 years of experience in the film
industry. The company’s mission is to produce formally interesting documentary
movies for a wide audience. We create ideas for films and we also look for
interesting ideas to develop. The company has its own equipment and editing
stations. Our activity in the IT sector enables us to freely use of IT solutions in the
production process and promotion. Entertain Studio is a member of the Polish
Audiovisual Producers Chamber of Commerce.
DOcs to start
Polish documentaries
in development
12
13
dir. Arkadiusz Bartosiak
Where Are You, Teresa O.?
Original title: GDZIE JESTEŚ, TERESO O.?
English title: WHERE ARE YOU, TERESA O.?
Director: ARKADIUSZ BARTOSIAK
DOP: PAWEŁ NAZARUK
Editor: MARCIN CZARNY
Creative Producer: PAWEŁ NAZARUK
Producer: PAWEŁ BINIEK
Production company: MEDION ART STUDIO
Production country: POLAND
Production stage: DEVELOPMENT
Shooting format: HD (PRO‑RES HQ)
Estimated running time: 75’
Language: POLISH, GERMAN, ENGLISH
Shooting period: TBC
Postproduction: TBC
Estimated date of Film delivery: 2016
Arkadiusz
Bartosiak
DIRECTOR
Born in 1975. Graduated from the Faculty of Economic Sciences and the Institute
of Journalism at the University of Warsaw. Worked as a reporter and foreign
correspondent, covering mostly the Middle East. He has also conducted hundreds
of interviews with public figures and published three collections of his works. He
is a student of film directing at the Warsaw Film School. Author of awarded short
films. He has recently finished filming his feature‑length documentary debut.
Paweł
Nazaruk
Total budget: 250 000 EUR
Secured budget: 25 000 EUR
Still needed: 225 000 EUR
Where are you Teresa O.? tells the story of Teresa Orlowski, an exceptional and strong woman who
decided to achieve something in life, against the regime and the social mores of 1980s Poland, but
in accordance with her own self. Teresa Orlowski is famous for being an international porn‑star but
pornography is not a central theme of our movie. It focuses on the life story of this intriguing woman
who successfully built a true sex‑Empire, achieved great wealth and fame, only to fall so badly that she
decided to hide from the world. It is a Cinderella story with a twist and an unobvious ending. It is a story
of the fulfillment of the ‘Western dream’, getting to the top, then back to the bottom and... the sudden
disappearance.
Today Teresa Orlowski is 61 years old. Few people know where she lives and what she does now. But
her legend is still alive as evidenced by the legions of fans around the world. The incredible life story
of Teresa Orlowski, full of personal determination, situational humor and unexpected twists is very
cinematic. The image of Europe of our times – the height of the cold war, social and institutional
divisions determined by the Iron Curtain, the fall of the Berlin Wall and the new members of the
European Union reveling in freedom – is reflected in her fate like in a funhouse mirror. Our film is
a cinema of grotesque, full of absurd humor, but at the same time a social drama, posing questions about
life’s fundamental dilemmas.
DOcs to start
Confirmed co‑producers, funds,
distributors, broadcasters: POLISH FILM
INSTITUTE, HBO
Looking for: CO‑PRODUCERS
Contact: MEDION ART STUDIO PAWEŁ BINIEK,
tel. +48 602 129 079
Producer’s e-mail, mobile:
[email protected]
Director’s e-mail: [email protected]
Creative producer
Born in 1977, a Director of Photography and film producer with independent
filmmaking background, author of award‑winning shorts and documentaries. He is
the creative producer behind the feature‑length documentary Searching For Hell,
an international coproduction scheduled to premiere in June 2015.
Paweł
Biniek
PRODUCER
Born in 1971.Graduated from the faculty of film production of the Łódź Film School.
Experienced producer and production manager of various movie and television
projects. Since 2003, the owner of Medion Art Studio – company producing i.a.
television programs, series, advertisements, and documentaries, e.g. “Wine – the
history of culture” – a film dedicated to the European wine culture, “Love at first
click” – a miniseries investigating the phenomenon of online dating, “We’ll call you
back” – documentary series about amateur actors and extras attempting to make
careers in the show business.
Medion Art Studio is an independent production company established in 2003,
responsible for many movie and television projects, cooperating with various Pol‑
ish TV stations, such as TVP, Polsat, TVN, TLC. The company’s portfolio includes
documentaries, e.g. a movie “Wine – history of culture” dedicated to the Euro‑
pean wine culture, and “Love at first click” a miniseries intently investigating the
phenomenon of online dating. Medion Art Studio currently co‑produces a docu‑
mentary series focusing on amateur actors and extras attending castings, who are
trying to make a name for themselves in the show business. Medion Art Studio is
a producer of TV programs, (including formats) as well, i.a. “Galileo” – the most
popular Polish popular‑science program, and “Dragon’s Den – how to become
a millionaire”, an entertaining program about investing.
Polish documentaries
in development
14
15
dir. Paweł Ziemilski
New Blood
Original title: Nowa Krew
English title: New Blood
Director: Paweł Ziemilski
DOP: Filip Drożdż
Editor: Kacper Plawgo
Producer: Łukasz Długołęcki, Haukur M.
Production company: NUR
Production country: Poland, Iceland
Production stage: development
Shooting format: HD, 16:9
Estimated running time: 52’ & feature length
Language: Polish, Icelandic
Shooting period: June 2015 – January 2016
Postproduction: February 2016 – April 2016
Estimated date of Film delivery: May 2016
Total budget: 187.000 EUR
Secured budget: 72.000 EUR
Still needed: 115.000 EUR
In 1980, Valdi, an Icelander in his thirties working as a telegraphist on ships, was travelling through
Poland. A lady conductor on a train caught his eye. Attempts of a conversation in broken English left Valdi
with information she was single… and lived in Stare Juchy. He decided to visit this obscure place. And so
began the fateful adventure of a young man in a foreign that would lead to the almost complete migration
of the youth of Stare Juchy to Iceland.
Today, Iceland and Stare Juchy are bonded by marriage and the internet. This film follows some of the
families and how the two cultures have grown together in the intervening years.
The film exposes the changes that occurred in the area, the connection between these who are left
behind and these who migrated, as well as the ways of the Polish Icelandic integration.
Focusing on the evolution of the individuals, families and the whole society it shows what does the
values like freedom, openness towards the world and the possibilities of the rapid mobility and modern
technologies change in the understanding of oneself and the ones around us, as well as the understanding
of controlling one’s ways of life.
Paweł
Ziemilski
DIRECTOR
Born in 1981, graduated from the the the Polish National Film School in Łódź and
from the Wajda School in Warsaw. Short documentary and fiction films he made
so far received wide publicity at numerous film festivals around the world and
got many prestigious awards. His documentary “Rogalik’ got IDFA nomination
in 2012. It has also been shown and awarded at festivals such as Zagreb Dox,
Alcine Festival (First Prize), festivals in Oberhausen, Beijing, Bucharest, Cracow
and others. Apart from directing, Paweł Ziemilski is involved in social animation,
organizing workshops for so‑called troubled youth.
Confirmed co‑producers, funds,
distributors, broadcasters: Join Motion
Pictures (Icelandic co‑producer), Polish
Film Institute (fund), National Polish TV
– TVP (Letter of Intent from a national
broadcaster)
Looking for: distribution, pre‑sales
Contact: Łukasz Długołęcki, NUR,
Kamińskiego st. 26/5, 90‑220 Łódź, Poland,
tel +48 664 466 072
Producer’s e-mail: [email protected]
Director’s e-mail: [email protected]
Łukasz
Długołęcki
PRODUCER
Born in 1989, holds a MA from the Polish National Film School in Łódź. There,
he produced and co‑produced over a dozen student films, both fiction and
documentary. For many years Łukasz also worked for an independent theater. In
2011, while working professionally as a production manager both on commercials
and feature films he decided to go independent. He directed his first short
the same year. Observing the rapid evolution of the European film production
sector and the role of a creative producer in contemporary film making led him
to co‑found NUR.
NUR is a foundation established by three people from Poland and Iceland during
their studies in The National Polish Film School in Łódź, Poland.
After its’ establishment in May of 2012 NUR foundation managed to accomplish
production of seven short films and started development of two feature
documentaries: “Cult of Concrete” and “New Blood” (both of which already
secured development fund from The Polish Film Institute). NUR has also started
long‑term projects such as: bringing back to life abandoned monument as an
open film center and a venue for all foundation’s activities.
DOcs to start
Polish documentaries
in development
16
17
dir. Jacob Dammas
Mr Jan and His 40 Girls
Original title: Pan Jan i jego 40 dziewczyn
(working title)
English title: Mr Jan and his 40 girls
(working title)
Director: Jacob Dammas
DOP: tbc
Editor: tbc
Producer: Jacob Dammas
Production company: GRANIZA
Production country: Poland (+ looking for
coproducers)
Production stage: development
Shooting format: HD
Estimated running time: 52‘
Language: Polish (+ some English, German,
French, Italian, Danish)
Shooting period: JULY 2015 – JUNE 2016
Postproduction: JULY 2016 – OCTOBER 2016
Estimated date of Film delivery:
OCTOBER 2016
A lighthearted portrait of Olimpia, the only female brass band in Poland, which consists of 40 vibrant
teenage girls – and one single man, the 75‑year‑old Mr Jan Skroś, who is the orchestra’s conductor,
manager, music teacher, marketing director, ‘psychologist’, mechanic of instruments, repairer
of concert uniforms, and much more. This year, however, Olimpia is facing huge challenges: the budget
is descreasing; so is the number of new candidates wanting to join the orchestra, whereas some band
members, e.g. 1st trombone player Agnieszka, wish to go abroad for work and thus leave the orchestra;
and what is more, Mr Jan himself is considering to retire after more than half a lifetime with music. Who
will replace him to continue Olimpia?
Total budget: 70 400 EUR
Secured budget: 11 900 EUR
Still needed: 58 500 EUR
Confirmed co‑producers, funds,
distributors, broadcasters: Polish Film
Institute (development grant)
Looking for: broadcasters, distributors,
coproducers (+ funds)
Contact: Jacob Dammas, GRANIZA,
ul. Grochowska 341/80, PL‑03822 Warsaw,
Poland, +48 506642021, www.graniza.pl
Producer’s e-mail: [email protected]
Director’s e-mail: [email protected]
Jacob
Dammas
DIRECTOR, producer
Born and raised in Copenhagen as the son of Polish political refugees from his
mother’s side. After completing a M.A. in communication studies in Denmark,
he decided to go to Poland in the search of an old family credenza, which he
made a film about in the Andrzej Wajda Master School of Film Directing in
Warsaw (“Kredens”, 2007). Jacob’s latest documentary film is “Polish Illusions”,
a tragicomical portrait of the changing times in small‑town Poland, coproduced
with ARTE (Grand Format), TVP1 and MDR.Together with two other bi‑cultural
filmmakers, Jacob belongs to the informal film group “Polish Bastards”.
Jacob Dammas produces creative documentaries through his own company
GRANIZA, among other projects: “On the Track of Europe”, in development,
a series about European long distance trains. “Kruzensthern: From Dima
to Dorota”, 2014, short doc about the Tall Ships’ Races Szczecin. “Polish Illusions“,
2012, 72 min, coproduced with ARTE, MDR, TVP1, shown at HotDocs, Karlovy Vary,
CPH:DOX, Krakow, etc. “ABCinema“, 2009, 28 min, produced for the Danish Film
Institute, about a Danish film collective before Dogmañ95. “Kredens”, 2007, 26
min, coproduced with Andrzej Wajda Film School, broadcasted on TVP1, Kino
Polska, shown at HotDocs, DokLeipzig, Cinema du Reel, Krakow, DocLisboa, etc.
GRANIZA was founded in 2007 in Warsaw, Poland, with the aim of producing
creative documentaries of various forms and lengths. Today the company also
works with transmedia storytelling. International coproduction is a natural feature
of our projects. We therefore eagerly engage in cooperation with international
partners and creators who share the experience of living and working in more
than one culture. GRANIZA is a member of The Polish Producers’ Organization
(KIPA).
DOcs to start
Polish documentaries
in development
18
19
dir. Anna Dejczer
Such a Little Town Batory
Original title: TAKIE MAŁE MIASTECZKO BATORY
(working title)
English title: SUCH A LITTLE TOWN BATORY
(working title)
Director: ANNA DEJCZER
DOP: MACIEJ FIJAŁKOWSKI, MATEUSZ SKALSKI
Editor: ALEKSANDRA GRUZIEL
Producer: ANNA DEJCZER
Production company: GRIFILM
Production country: POLAND
Production stage: in production
Shooting format: 16x9, HD
Estimated running time: 70’
Language: polish
Shooting period: July 2014 – October 2015
Postproduction: November – December 2015
Estimated date of Film delivery:
January 2016
Total budget: 120 000 EUR
Secured budget: 12 000 EUR
Still needed: 108 000 EUR
My grandmother was a sailor. And my childhood was systematized by her faraway sea cruises. We named
her ‚Gradma, the Sailor‘ in our family. She was somebody ‚absent‘, ‚unreachable‘, ‚from somewhere else‘.
She was someone, who was working on the biggest and most famous Polish transatlantic ‚Stefan Batory‘
ship. A Polish trademark of the 70s and 80s. A ‚coctail shake‘ made of gratest Polish artists, honoured
passangers, professional and nobilitated crew, spies, agents and administrative officials. An icon of Poland
under communist regime. The only bond between ‚grey and miserable‘ Poland and the colourful ‚West‘
as well as dreamed‑of America. The constant ‚ingredient‘ of this ‚coctail‘ was the crew. 300 people –
one mixed family. People of different motivation to build together Stefan Batory’s history. To live and
work together for more than 30 years. To sacrifice their lives to the sea and to the great and legendary
ship. Will they meet together on their last collective cruise? Will they ‚jump‘ into their ancient roles and
positions?
Anna
Dejczer
DIRECTOR, producer
Born 1980 in Gdańsk – links her education, work and projects always with social
aspects of life. Graduated from Indology at the Jagiellonian University, Visual
Anthropology in Leiden, Netherlands, she continues education during her phd
studies at the Institute of Social Studies at Warsaw University, where she explores
the issues of innovative movements in culture and religion. She spent some time
in India working on her project in a female community of Pune, Maharashtra. She
is fascinated by the possibilities of permeation of the two views: the academic and
the cinematic one by using the tools of the two different fields.
GRIFILM is a young production company established by the director and producer,
Anna Dejczer in 2014 in order to produce ‚Such a little town Batory‘ film. For more
info please see the producer’s bio and working profile.
Confirmed co‑producers, funds,
distributors, broadcasters: Gdyński
Fundusz Filmowy, TVP1, polish distributor:
Roman Gutek, Stowarzyszenie Nowe
Horyzonty
Looking for: co‑producers, funds,
broadcasters
Contact: Anna Dejczer, GRIFILM,
Al. Solidarnosci 75/44, 00‑090 Warsaw,
Poland +48 604 297 980
Producer’s e-mail: [email protected]
Director’s e-mail: [email protected]
DOcs to start
Polish documentaries
in development
20
21
dir. Michał Bielawski
The Wind
Original title: WIATR (working title)
English title: THE WIND
Director: Michał Bielawski
DOP: Bartek Solik
Editor: Grzegorz Mazur
Producer: Maciej Kubicki, Anna Kępińska
Production company: TELEMARK
Production country: Poland
Production stage: development
Shooting format: HD
Estimated running time: 90‘
Language: Polish
Shooting period: October 2015 – March 2016
Postproduction: March 2016 – September 2016
Estimated date of Film delivery:
October 2016
Total budget: 200 000 EUR
Secured budget: 20 000 EUR
Still needed: 180 000 EUR
The halny wind is the most unpredictable element in the Polish mountains. It comes in cycles, in every
spring and autumn. One never knows if or when it turns into a destructive gale. Halny particularly affects
the inhabitants of Zakopane and its area, changing picturesque mountain trails into a set for an untamed
performance of nature. It triggers fear and unusual behaviour. When it arrives, people become more
anxious and aggressive, drink significantly more alcohol, and the police intervene more frequently than
usual. The number of suicides is at its highest level and many patients with heart conditions are admitted
to hospitals.
The multi‑thread documentary observation takes us to meet people dependent on the wind’s actions:
doctors, police officers, foresters, meteorologists, and average inhabitants of the Podhale region.
We watch them struggle against the element and experience their tension as the wind arrives. Our
attention travels from intense human behaviour to the changing nature: scared animals, trees swaying in
the wind, the majestic passage of tumbling clouds, which spill over the Tatra ridges.
The combination of the multi‑thread narrative and the observation of natural phenomena results in
a documentary symphony filled with emotions. Its structure – exposition, development, and coda –
overlaps one life cycle of halny in the Podhale region.
Michał
Bielawski
DIRECTOR
A graduate of the University of Warsaw. An author of documentaries and tv
forms. Worked for TVP Kultura and the Warsaw Planete Doc Review Film Festival.
Awarded the Polish Film Institute Prize for One Scene, a series of interviews
with accomplished Polish filmmakers. His first widely recognised documentary
was Twin Quay made for TVP in 2007. His cinematic debut was a 2013 feature
documentary Mundial. The Highest Stakes, which won the Special Jury Mention
Award at the 10th Planete Doc Review and awards at festivals in New York, Los
Angeles, and Zamość. In 2014, Bielawski directed two feature documentaries:
1989, about the year of political and social changes in Poland and the Eastern Bloc,
and The Team, about the Polish national volleyball team.
Confirmed co‑producers, funds,
distributors, broadcasters: –
Looking for: funds, co‑producers,
investors.
Contact: Maciej Kubicki, TELEMARK,
Ordynacka 14/9 02‑057 Warsaw, Poland,
tel. +48 508 154 480
Producer’s email:
[email protected]
Director’s email: [email protected]
Maciej
Kubicki
PRODUCER
A graduate of the Institute of Polish Culture at the University of Warsaw and the
Program for Creative Producers at the Wajda School. A film and TV producer
with a story editor background who works as a creative producer and a board
member for Telemark, where he develops ideas for creative documentaries,
premium TV series and feature forms. Maciej’s last documentary productions
include Entangled by Lidia Duda (KFF The Winner of Polish Competition 2012,
DOK Leipzig 2012 Main Competition), One Man Show by Jakub Piątek (KFF Polish
Competition 2014, DOK Leipzig International Programme 2014) and Talk to Me
by Marta Prus (KFF Polish Competition 2015).
TELEMARK is a Warsaw based film and TV boutique production company
established in 2003. Managed by two young producers Anna Kępińska and Maciej
Kubicki, it is well known for documentary films and TV formats, both original and
adapted. Telemark develops its own projects as a creative producer but is also
hired to manage productions. Telemark has cooperated with the biggest Polish TV
stations such as TVP1, TVP2, Polsat, MTV Poland, and HBO Europe. Its producers
and shareholders gained considerable experience while working with European TV
stations including German ZDF, ARD, and ARTE. The company’s portfolio contains
a number of high quality tv series and documentaries that touch on important
issues.
DOcs to start
Polish documentaries
in development
22
23
dir. Paulina Gawęcka
Ahead of Bill
Original title: WYPRZEDZAJĄC BILLA
English title: AHEAD OF BILL
Director: PAULINA GAWĘCKA
DOP: JACEK SZYMAŃSKI, JULIAN KERNBACH
Editor: TBC
Producer: TOMASZ GAJ
Production company: WORKSHOP
Production country: POLAND
Production stage: DEVELOPMENT
Shooting format: 16:9, HD
Estimated running time: 70‑80’
Language: POLISH, ENGLISH
Shooting period: April 2015 – January 2016
Postproduction: February 2016 – May 2016
Estimated date of Film delivery: End of May
2016
Paulina
Gawęcka
DIRECTOR
Since over 7 years she’s connected with film branch and media world. A graduate
of Journalism Faculty at the Warsaw’s University and of postgraduate studies
– TV production faculty at the Film School in Łódź. She produced many TV
commercials, image and social campaigns and TV programs. She directed a 44
minute long episode of documentary program about music festival in Barcelona
for MTVNHD. She directed a short film about Baltic sea for WWF Poland
Foundation and numerous image and social spots.
Total budget: 150.000 EUR
Secured budget: 0 EUR
Still needed: 150.000 EUR
Here is a story of a man who built the first portable computer. His name was neither Bill nor Steve. His
name was Jacek. And he changed the history of computers as much as computers have changed all of our
lives.
AHEAD OF BILL is a true story of Jacek Karpiński who invented and constructed in one of the first
desktop computers in the world overcoming multiple obstacles of the communist regime. It took place
not in the ‘80s, but in the late ‘60s in Poland. By doing so he went ahead of his era by several dozens years.
If he had lived nowadays and not at the time of PRL, who knows, maybe it would have been American
visionaries comparing themselves to just this man… This is a film essay by his granddaughter, who sets off
to discover the truth behind the life and work of this remarkable man. A man that had knowledge, talent,
vision and imagination, a man that had unbelievable stubbornness in turning his ideas into action and
stirring up enthusiasm in his team, a man who was a Pioneer, Inventor, Engineer, Programmer, Scientist,
Genius, Constructor, Soldier, Farmer, Friend, Boss, Father & Grandfather. A great talent and mind
awarded by UNESCO remained almost unknown and forgotten.
Tomasz
Gaj
Confirmed co‑producers, funds,
distributors, broadcasters: –
Looking for: funds and distributors
Contact: Tomasz Gaj, Workshop,
ul. Dworkowa 5/20, 00‑784 Warsaw, Poland,
tel. +48 506 146 530
Producer’s email: [email protected]
Director’s email: [email protected]
PRODUCER
Graduate of production faculty at the Film School in Łódź. Founder of production
company Workshop. Since 2004 he has worked in TV programs and commercials
for Disney Channel, CBS, Discovery, National Geographic Channel as well as
MTVNHD. He gained the work experience as line producer of documentary
“Penderecki. Paths through the Labyrinth“ and production manager
of documentary movies such as “The Harbour of Hope” and “Two Rembrandts in
the garden”.
Workshop company specializes in film and TV production. The company
owner – Tomek Gaj before starting his own business has gained broad experience
in production of films and TV shows such as ‘The Amazing Race’ in Poland,
Kazachstan, Romania and Estonia, ‘MTV Uncompressed’ in Thailand and South
Africa for MTVNHD, documentary movies “Penderecki. Paths through the
Labyrinth”, “The Harbour of Hope”, “Two Rembrandts in the garden“ as well as
TV series “As the bell rings” for Disney Channel. The latest Workshop productions
include “Poland’s Toughest” program for NGC, image campaign “Disney Idents”,
clips for Star Wars Day and social spot “Add Friend” for Disney Channel and
a short film for WWF.
DOcs to start
Polish documentaries
in development
24
25
dir. Aistė Žegulytė
People, Animals
and Things
Original title: Apie žmones, žvėris ir daiktus
English title: People, Animals and Things
Director: Aistė Žegulytė
DOP: Vytautas Katkus
Editor: Aistė Žegulytė
Producer: Giedrė Burokaitė
Production company: Meno avilys
Production country: Lithuania
Production stage: Early development
Shooting format: RED
Estimated running time: 60’
Language: Lithuanian
Shooting period: NOVEMBER 2015 – JUNE 2016
Postproduction: JUNE 2016 – NOVEMBER 2016
Estimated date of Film delivery: NOVEMBER
2016
Aistė
Žegulytė
DIRECTOR
Aistė was born in Lithuania 29 years ago. She doesn’t speak a whole lot, but that
doesn’t mean that she has nothing to say. Maybe that’s why Aistė can’t exist
without photography or film making. That’s her personal language. Right now
she wants to speak about taxidermy, it’s a phantasmagorical art form and at the
same time – allegory for social relationships. Raising questions and searching for
answers, Aistė wants to talk with the audience about the imperfect human and
perfect trophies.
Total budget: 90 000 EUR
Secured budget: 6 000.EUR
Still needed: 84 000 EUR
The main criteria in the taxidermy competition are two: the animal’s posture and gaze. In the words
of the master of stuffed birds and animals, “Anyone who is not afraid of blood can pick out the brains,
guts and meat, but not everyone can produce a proper posture”.
16 years ago Vasilijus, Egidijus and Kęstutis all together – as a team of taxidermists representing
Lithuania – won the First Prize at World Taxidermy Championship.
However, as Lithuania achieved economic crisis, the trio disbanded. Even though each of them names
a different cause of the conflict, the three men have not been talking to each other since that time.
Nevertheless, they still are in competition with each other, so they continue to produce trophies: to skin
the wild animals, and mould their figures, looking for still livelier poses and more real looks, in their
life‑long attempt to do what is naturally impossible – to re‑create a wild animal.
But can their fight possibly have a winner? Or it is just a mindless desire to appropriate?
And whose “posture” and “gaze” are more important in this fight? Those of the stuffed animal or those
of the craftsman?
Giedrė
Burokaitė
Confirmed co‑producers, funds,
distributors, broadcasters: –
Looking for: Co‑producers, Sales agents.
Contact: Giedrė Burokaitė, Meno avilys,
Vilniaus 39, Vilnius, Lithuania +370 675 21161
Producer’s email: [email protected]
Director’s email: [email protected]
PRODUCER
Born in 1985, an aspiring Lithuanian film producer. She is currently finishing
MA degree in Film Producing at Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theater. Giedre
works as a project coordinator and producer in a media education center “Meno
Avilys” (since 2008) and as a junior producer in a Lithuanian film production
company “Fralita Films” (since 2012). She have produced a number of short films
and is currently working on her first feature. Also a big analog photography
admirer, cultural anthropologist and cat owner.
NGO “Meno Avilys” operates in audio‑visual field in a targeted way since
the beginning of its activities. The company has been acting in the area of film
education and heritage since 2005. In 2006 it initiated the first national film
education project in Lithuania “Film at My School”. The NGO publishes film
compilations on DVD which are accompanied by teaching guides. In 2009 “Meno
avilys” became a member of international video education network “Viducate”
and organised “European Video Education Forum 2009” in Vilnius. Since
2014 “Meno avilys” has become a member of the two European projects in the
framework of Audience Development: A Framework for Film Education in Europe
led by BFI (UK) and Moving Cinema led by A Bao A Qu (Spain). Since 2015 NGO
“Meno Avilys” started to work in film production field with an aim to promote
Lithuanian film industry and to cooperate with young filmmakers.
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dir. Vytautas Puidokas
El Padre Medico
Original title: El Padre Medico
English title: El Padre Medico
Director: Vytautas Puidokas
DOP: vacat
Editor: vacat
Producer: Paulius Juoceris
Production company: Ironcat
Production countries: Lithuania, Brazil,
Germany
Production stage: Late Development
Shooting format: DCP
Estimated running time: ~90’
Language: English, Spanish, Portugese,
German
Shooting period: FEBRUARY – APRIL 2016
Postproduction: APRIL 2016
Estimated date of Film delivery: Late 2016
Vytautas
Puidokas
DIRECTOR
After successfully graduating from the Film Studies programme at the University
of Surrey (UK) Vytautas was offered to direct a weekly TV show in Lithuania. In his
1.5 years in television Puidokas has worked as a director, scriptwriter and producer
on various projects. His first mid‑length documentary ‘Mission Siberia. Khakassia’,
premiered on Lithuanian National Television (LRT). Currently, he dedicates most
of his time and energy for the development of feature length documentary ‘El
Padre Medico’. Puidokas also directs educational films and works as a freelance
director for TVC production companies.
Total budget: 260 000 EUR
Secured budget: 120 000 EUR
Still needed: 60 000 EUR
While wandering in the vast South American jungle, I came across traces of a man who, strangely
enough, was born in the same Eastern European village as I was. Lithuanian‑born priest, missionary,
doctor, aristocrat and “Great White Father” to the natives, Alexander Bendoraitis (1919‑1998) had created
an entire empire in the heart of the Amazon: a boat‑clinic system, two modern hospitals, a brick factory,
the first jungle radio and even a football team. However, my quest to understand how one becomes a great
man shifts dramatically as I discover the dark side of glory: a cult, a macabre murder and the biggest
mystery – Bendoraitis’ past in Europe.
Confirmed co‑producers, funds,
distributors, broadcasters: co‑producer
– Lente Viva Filmes (Brazil), National fund
-Lithuanian Film Center, Private investor –
Charity Foundation “Bedu turgus”
Looking for: Co‑production (Europe), Gap
financing, Distribution, broadcasters
Contact: Paulius Juočeris, Ironcat, A.Jakšto
3 -14, Vilnius, Lithuania, tel. +37061887174
Producer’s e-mail: [email protected]
Director’s e-mail: [email protected]
Tadas
Vaitmonas
roducer, Co‑writer
His career in film production started in the year 2012 working as props on set
for a TV show. The experience in TV was followed by a feature film where he
got production office assistant position. Continuing as an assistant in foreign
productions, he gained experience working on shooting set. In between films he
has been continuously nourishing his skills in TVCs, mainly working as Production
Manager. In January 2014 he started working on a feature documentary
“Alexander the Grand” from the very beginning along with the director. To this day
he has been working on the film as a Producer and a Screen co‑writer. Paulius
Juoceris
PRODUCER
Paulius started film management studies in “Lithuanian Music and Theater Academy”,
later extended studies in “University for Creative Arts” Great Britain, where he
acquired film production (producing) bachelor’s degree. While studying Paulius as
a producer twice participated in “Summer Media Studio 2008, 2009” International
film workshop. After graduation Paulius started working as a freelancer and
established film company PI. Ironcat. Lately Paulius was selected to participate in
Emerging Producers, Berlinale Talents and MAIA workshops.
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PI “IRONCAT” manly works with documentary, feature film and cultural projects
that have a historic, educational and artistic value. Having a goal to produce projects
of great quality “IRONCAT” has proven trustworthy as a partner for many Lithuanian
official institutions that perceive the importance of our projects and are willing
to fund them. Company provides development, producing, partnership research and
coproduction services for feature and documentary films. Organise film camps, online
film platforms/competitions, educational film screenings.
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PRESENTATION OF UPCOMING
POLISH DOCUMENTARIES
5.06.2015
9.30
Welcome Coffee
10.00 – 13.00
Public Presentations (MOS‑1)
13.00 – 14.00
Lunch (Pauza‑In‑Garden)
14.00 – 17.00
One‑To‑One Meetings (MOS‑3)
17.00 – 18.00
Cocktail (MOS – Industry Zone Meeting Point)
dir. Piotr Stasik
21 x New York
Original title: 21 x Nowy Jork
English title: 21 x New York
Director: Piotr Stasik
Script: Piotr Stasik
DOP: Piotr Stasik
Editor: Tomasz Wolski
Production company: Lava Films
Producer: Agnieszka Wasiak
Production country: Poland
Production stage: Editing /Post‑production
Shooting format: 16:9 (digital, Super 8mm)
Estimated running time: 75‘
Language: English (main), Spanish, Polish
Shooting period: February 2014 – October
2014
Postproduction: November 2015 – October
2015
Film delivery: November 2015
Piotr
Stasik
DIRECTOR
Born in 1976, graduated from Department of Social Sciences at the University
of Warsaw. He completed documentary course at Wajda School. He co‑founded
the Association for Artistic Initiatives “ę”, an NGO supporting cultural
undertakings in small towns. He lectured at Film Kindergarten at Wajda School
and was the president of Young Polish Filmmakers Association Film1,2. His recent
films include Diary of A Journey (awards at Lagow FF, DocuDays UA and special
mention at Krakow FF) and The Last Day of Summer (awarded at goEast FF,
Flahertiana FF, Camerimage FF and DocFilm FF). He currently works on 21xNew
York, which he likes to call a documentary essay about life and the city.
Total budget: 120 000 EUR
Secured budget: 85 000 EUR
Still needed: 35 000 EUR
How often do you catch yourself trying to figure out who the person sitting next to you on a train is? Or
that lonely man in a café? Who are they? Imagine that you are in New York, in the subway, and you have
the power to hear the thoughts of your fellow commuters. You can follow them, enter their home, find out
who they are, know about their lives. This is what this documentary does. It follows the characters to the
surface and observes moments in their lives, from funny and absurd to sad and dramatic.
21 x New York discusses the human condition in the 21st century western society through personal
stories of 21 people met in the NYC subway.
People seek love but are unable to handle it. Interpersonal bonds disintegrate into social media
networking pulp. Sex is the new meaning of intimacy.
This multi‑layered symphony about longing for emotions, need for communication, contemplation
of loneliness is also an essay discussing eccentric, extravagant or plain funny life philosophies we make
up in order to get by. The collage of portraits is interweaved with oneiric images of New York.
Creative sound, intimate narration and atmospheric music aims at putting audience in a trance allowing
them to get closer to complete strangers and ponder upon their fate. Ultimately, the film is a mirror
we can look into if we are brave enough.
Agnieszka
Wasiak
Confirmed co‑Producers, distributors,
broadcasters, funds: Polish Film Institute,
TVP, Gucci Tribeca Documentary Fund
(pending)
Looking for: TV pre‑sales, sales‑agent,
distribution
Contact: Agnieszka Wasiak, Lava Films,
Mahatmy Gandhiego 7/30, 91‑012 Łódź, Poland
Producer’s email: [email protected]
Director’s email: [email protected]
PRODUCER
Lava Films is an independent film production company collaborating with aspiring
and established filmmakers from Poland and abroad. The company’s goal is
to help artists transform their potential into features, documentaries and animated
films bearing hallmarks of creative individuality, yet reflecting valid issues of our
times. Believing that international co‑productions are the most accurate answer
to the needs of multicultural audience, Lava Films engages in projects with
worldwide potential as the main or minor producer as well as conducts service
productions. Their latest film, “The Here After” (dir. Magnus von Horn) premiered
in Quinzaine des Réalisateurs section at Cannes Film Festival 2015.
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dir. Przemysław Kamiński
The Hypnotist
Original title: Hipnotyzer (working title)
English title: The Hypnotist (working title)
Director: Przemysław Kamiński
Script: Przemysław Kamiński
DOP: Przemysław Kamiński
Editor: Anna Wagner
Production company: TELEMARK
Producers: Anna Kępińska, Maciej Kubicki
Production country: Poland
Production stage: editing
Shooting format: HD
Estimated running time: 52‘
Language: Polish, Russian, Ukrainian
Shooting period: AUGUST 2014 – MAY 2015
Postproduction: MAY 2015 – SEPTEMBER 2015
Film delivery: OCTOBER 2015
Przemysław
Kamiński
DIRECTOR
Director of photography and a graduate in Cinematography at the Krzysztof
Kieślowski Faculty of Radio and Television at the University of Silesia in Katowice.
As a DOP, he has worked on internationally awarded feature films such as Erratum
by Marek Lechki and Aria Diva by Agnieszka Smoczyńska.
Total budget: 59 000 EUR
Secured budget: 33 000 EUR
Still needed: 26 000 EUR
The Hypnotist is a creative documentary, whose protagonist Yuriy is a Ukrainian immigrant with an
unusual gift for hypnotising people. Yet, his extraordinary talent doesn’t make it easier for Yuriy to take
life‑changing decisions or solve problems all of us face every day.
He is caught in a real dilemma: he wants to help people by means of innovative treatment methods for
addiction but he also needs to succeed in commercial terms. Namely, he wants to heal patients at any
price, even by paying part of the rent for the office where he conducts therapy sessions. At the same time,
however, he gives in to economic temptation to make a comfortable living by performing stage hypnosis
shows that have become his specialty.
Torn between easy money and his wish to be well‑off on the one hand and his need to develop his
spirituality and his talent in good conscience on the other, Yuriy is experiencing a strong inner conflict
similar to existential dilemmas of his generation. The final choice between self‑realisation and life
stabilisation will always lead to irreversible consequences.
It is a universal story about a man in a mid‑life crisis who is searching for his own path, a man with an
exceptional talent who feels it’s being frittered away. This all‑too‑familiar story will nevertheless take us
to see the outstanding setting of stage hypnosis shows, therapy sessions, and exams for illusionists. The
film will be told with bitter humour in a visually innovative form of creative photography by a director
making his debut.
Confirmed co‑Producers, distributors,
broadcasters, funds: Polish Film Institute,
Krakow Film Commission
Looking for: co‑Producers, broadcasters,
sales agents, festivals
Contact: Telemark Sp. z o.o., Ordynacka 14/9,
00‑358 Warsaw, Poland
Producer’s e-mail:
[email protected]
Director’s e-mail:
[email protected]
Maciej
Kubicki
PRODUCER
TELEMARK is a Warsaw based film and TV boutique production company
established in 2003. Managed by two young producers Anna Kępińska and Maciej
Kubicki, it is well known for documentary films and TV formats, both original and
adapted. Telemark develops its own projects as a creative producer but is also
hired to manage productions. Telemark has cooperated with the biggest Polish TV
stations such as TVP1, TVP2, Polsat, MTV Poland, and HBO Europe. Its producers
and shareholders gained considerable experience while working with European TV
stations including German ZDF, ARD, and ARTE. The company’s portfolio contains
a number of high quality tv series and documentaries that touch on important
issues.
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dir. Marek Gajczak
Jarocin — the Rise
of Freedom
Original title: Jarocin. Pod prąd
English title: Jarocin – the rise of freedom
Directors: Leszek Gnoiński, Marek Gajczak
Script: Leszek Gnoiński, Marek Gajczak
DOP: Marek Gajczak
Editor: Marek Gajczak
Production company: Stowarzyszenie Film
Kraków/Cracow Film Society
Producer: Aneta Zagórska, Witold Bereś
Production country: Poland
Production stage: Postproduction
Shooting format: 2,35:1
Estimated running time: 80’
Language: Polish
Shooting period: July 2014 – August 2014
Postproduction: September 2014 – July 2015
Film delivery: July 2015
Marek
Gajczak
DIRECTOR
Graduate of the Łódź Film School at the cameramen faculty (1998). In 2006 he
debuted as a director and screenwriter with a feature film “Pod powierzchnią”
(Underneath). In recent years he was responsible for cinematography for feature
films, such as: “Oszukanie” (Deceit), directed by Marcin Solarz and “Bokser”
(Boxer) (2012) directed by Tomasz Blachnicki, as well as documentaries:
“Bartoszewski. Droga” (Bartoszewski. The Road) (2011) directed by Artur Więcek,
“Boris Dorfman – A Mentsh” (2014) directed by Uwe and Gabriela von Seltmann
and “Endrju” (2014) directed by Tomasz Blachnicki and Robert N. Wachowiak.
Leszek
Gnoiński
Total budget: 131 750 EUR
Secured budget: 106 750 EUR
Still needed: 25 000 EUR
Jarocin, a small town in Greater Poland becomes a symbol of independence, rebellion and freedom in
a system of oppression. And it was all thanks to rock music.
Before 1989 Poland was a country ruled by communism and censorship. The country was steeped in
economic crisis, food was limited and issued in exchange for “coupons”. Polish citizens were becoming
increasingly dissatisfied and frustrated. In this world, like an island in a sea of communist absurdity,
emerges the Jarocin festival – an enclave of freedom and normality. That music becomes the voice
of a generation of Poles dissatisfied with their contemporary reality and pushes them to action. It acts
as a catalyst for more and more musicians to create art of rebellion and liberation from the shackles
of totalitarian absurdity. The cry of freedom echoes throughout the country and beyond its borders. The
symbolic song lyrics speak to the Polish citizens, “underground” magazines and records are distributed
outside of government control.
The film about Jarocin will be a film about freedom. Not just seen as freedom of the individual in
a totalitarian world, but also freedom of art, freedom of creation and expression, freedom in all
dimensions. It will show what freedom meant between 1970 and 1990, but also what it means today and
how it is understood by the contemporary man. On the canvas of the Festival’s history, the film will show
the difficult period of life in a communist system and the Poles’ musical road to freedom.
Confirmed co‑Producers, distributors,
broadcasters, funds: Regional Museum in
Jarocin, National Centre for Culture, TVP,
National Audiovisual Institute, Cracow Film
Society
Looking for: Co‑producers, foreign
distributors, sales agents.
Contact: Aneta Zagórska, Stowarzyszenie
Film Kraków /Cracow Film Society, Plac
Inwalidów 7/14, 30‑033 Kraków, Poland
Producer’s e-mail: [email protected],
[email protected]
Director’s e-mail: [email protected],
[email protected]
DIRECTOR
Journalist, author of books and films about music. The greatest popularity he
achieved thanks to the film “Beats of Freedom – zew wolności” which in a novel way
shows the influence of rock music on changes in the young Poles minds, especially in
80s. It is one of the most popular Polish documentaries last fifteen years Gnoiński is
also a co‑author of a six part series “Historia polskiego rocka” (History of Polish Rock)
and an author of widely read books about music groups Kult, Acid Drinkers, Myslovitz,
and recently he published his book “Marek Piekarczyk. Zwierzenia kontestatora”
(Marek Piekarczyk. Confessions of a contestator).
Aneta
Zagórska
PRODUCER
Witold
Bereś
PRODUCER
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Cracow Film Society is a non‑governmental organization (NGO) operating in
Cracow, gathering Cracow’s art and culture creators, especially filmmakers. The
Society started its operations in November 2012. The mission: producing culturally
and socially important artistic authorial documentary films, finding and supporting
young and débuting filmmakers, carrying out actions aiming at integrating Cracow’s
filmmaking society and promoting artistic endeavours in Cracow and Lesser Poland,
organising exchanges of experience and developing contacts and cooperation
between artists from Lesser Poland and artists from other European countries, acting
in favour of European integration and creating interest in art.
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dir. Jarosław Wszędybył
The End of the Valley of Tears
Original title: Koniec Świata w Dolinie Łez
English title: THE END OF THE VALLEY OF TEARS
Director: Jarosław Wszędybył
Script: Jarosław Wszędybył
DOP: Michał Gruszczyński
Editor: Tomasz Mączka
Production company: Before My Eyes
Producer: Przemysław Miękinia
Production country: Poland, Romania
Production stage: Shooting
Shooting format: 16:9
Estimated running time: 75’
Language: Romanian
Shooting period: In shooting
Postproduction: 2016
Film delivery: 2016
Total budget: 160 000 EUR
Secured budget: 50 000 EUR
Still needed: 30 000 EUR
This is the story of Tichilesti, the last leper colony in Europe. Located in Romania, the Valley of Tears is
marked by a tragic history as it was pushed into obscurity for decades by the Communist government. In
a town where hundreds of people lived, only 15 remain. With each passing year, more die off. When the
last inhabitant dies, the village will disappear off the maps for good.
“The End Of The Valley of Tears” will be a documentary that creatively links various styles of film
narrative. The film will tell two stories: one being about the dramatic past of the Valley of Tears as
remembered by the last living inhabitants; and the other story showing everyday life in Tichilesti today,
a place that is waiting for its end.
The film will be a group portrait of the main characters: Hima (86), the oldest inhabitant of Tichilesti,
and Grisza (60), the youngest person living there.
Striving for universal story, “The End Of The Valley of Tears” will not limit itself to simply presenting
a place and people. The film will pose an important question about openness and tolerance in present day
society. To what end are we free of xenophobia, superstition, and prejudices? How do we overcome them?
How important is our humanity?
Jarosław
Wszędybył
DIRECTOR
Studied under the giants of Polish documentary Kazimierz Karabasz and Lidia
Zonn. As their student, he completed two shorts: “Jaguars Prowl The Streets”
(2006) and,,Colors Of Hope” (2008). His next film “Playing With Time” (2010) was
screened at numerous polish festivals and won one of main prizes at the Festival
of Media in Lodz, helmed that year by Marcel Łoziński. Jaroslaw Wszedybyl also
works in fiction (e.g.: II director of “The Caged Swallow” by Bartosz Warwas and
script doctor of “My Name Is Ki” by Leszek Dawid) and as an academic teacher.
Currently he is preparing two feature‑length documentaries – “The Dragon Spring”
and “The End Of The Valley of Tears”.
Confirmed co‑Producers, distributors,
broadcasters, funds: Hai‑Hui Entertainment,
TVP2
Looking for: sales agents, distributors,
coproducers, tv, funds
Contact: Przemysław Miękinia,
ul. Słowackiego 5/13, 01‑592 Warszawa,
Poland, tel. +48 697921642
Producer’s email: [email protected]
Director’s email: [email protected]
Przemysław
Miękinia
PRODUCER
Before My Eyes – member of the Polish Audiovisual Producers Chamber
of Commerce.The company was established in 2009. It is run by Przemyslaw
Miekinia and Magdalena Sztorc. Their objective is to deliver a new quality
of feature films, documentaries, television programs, music videos and adverts.
They collaborate with auteur filmmakers helping them to fulfil their artistic visions.
They also work on mainstream and commercial projects. One of their short
films – “Fragments“ by Agnieszka Woszczynska was selected for Quinzaine des
Realisateurs (Directors’ Fortnight) in Cannes 2014.
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dir. Marcin Sauter
At the Bottom of the Sea
Original title: NA DNIE MORZA
English title: AT THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA
Director: Marcin Sauter
Script: Marcin Sauter
DOP: Marcin Sauter
Editor: Agnieszka Glińska
Production company: Film Studio Kronika
Producer: Barbara Ławska
Production country: Poland
Production stage: Postproduction
Shooting format: 16:9
Estimated running time: 52’
Language: polish
Shooting period: APRIL 2015- MAY 2015
Postproduction: MAY 2015 – NOVEMBER 2015
Film delivery: NOVEMBER 2015
Marcin
Sauter
DIRECTOR
Born in 1971, studied at the Photography Department at the Polish National Film,
Television and Theatre School in Łódź. He has been working for four years as
a news photographer at “Gazeta Wyborcza”, member of the Association of Polish
Art Photographers. In 2005 he graduated from the Documentary Course at the
Andrzej Wajda Master School of Film Directing. Laureate several dozen awards for
documentary films at international film festivals.
Total budget: 110 000 EUR
Secured budget: 70 000 EUR
Still needed: 40 000 EUR
The film will be the collective memory of the inhabitants of Aralsk. This used to be beautiful,rich port
town, full of hope and people, who were coming to work from entire Soviet Imperium. Today’s buried in
poisonous, present Mokondo. Dying Ghost Town.
Aralsk is the place where The Sea is eternal legend. The Sea is in people’s talks, dream and memories.
Older are reminiscing the Sea, talk about it among themselves, youngsters tells the legends about
beautiful Sea. They are fed by those stories which are the symbols of “better“ times.
“At the bottom of the sea” will be universal film, tells about memory, about the power of memories
of dying “better” world, but also firmly documents the bigest world ecological disaster.
Marcin
Lenarczyk
Confirmed co‑Producers, distributors,
broadcasters, funds: Presales Planete+,
distributor Torus Film
Looking for: Co‑Producers
producer’s
representative
Contact: Studio Filmowe Kronika,
Chełmska 21, 00 -724, Warsaw, Poland
Producer’s e-mail: [email protected]
Director’s e-mail: [email protected]
Paweł
Kurzacz
producer
Film Studio KRONIKA (SFK) was established in 1990. Part of SFK is the Polish
Film Chronicle, which appears in the form of notation archival record the most
important events in the country carried out continuously on the film reel, which
is unique in Europe. Studio has to his credit about 250 films, documentaries and
other audiovisual forms. Films produced by the studio are awarded at prestigious
festivals in the country and abroad. In The Studio their films shot many recognized
artists such as Marcel Lozinski, Kazimierz Karabasz, Paweł Kędzierski, Wojciech
Staron, and many others. SF Chronicle productions are broadcast by TVP, Canal +,
Planete, Discovery History.
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dir. Gilles Lepore, Maciej Mądracki,
Michał Mądracki
Noiselessly
Original title: Bozgłośnie. Statyści pustyni
English title: Noiselessly
Directors: Giles Lepore, Maciej Mądracki,
Michał Mądracki
Script: Giles Lepore, Maciej Mądracki, Michał
Mądracki
DOP: Gilles Lepore, Maciej Mądracki
Editiors: Gilles Lepore, Maciej Mądracki,
Michał Mądracki
Production company: Otter Films
Producer: Anna Wydra
Production country: Poland /France
Gilles
Lepore
DIRECTOR
Maciej
Mądracki
Production stage: post‑production
Shooting format: HD
Estimated running time: 70’
Language: Arabic, Tamazight, French
Shooting period: winter 2013 – winter 2014
Postproduction: March 2015 – September 2015
Film delivery: Autumn 2015
DIRECTOR
Michał
Mądracki
Total budget: 145 000 EUR
Secured budget: 118 000 EUR
Still needed: 27 000 EUR
At the doors of the desert, in the south of Morocco lies a small town called Ouarzazate.
It was founded by the French legions in the early 20’s of the past century as the furthest military base
for colonial conquest of the East in the region of North Africa. As one of the tools used for this “civilizing
mission”, as it was named and believed by the French empire, came the new apparatus – camera.
Seduced with the blue, the ochre and the ample light, the Western eye will never quit Ouarzazate,
moving in for good with its dream factory, the cinema. And from this day on, fiction and reality will mix
together inextricably, bathing in this ocean blue sky.
Ouarzazate and its long lasting relation with cinema served as a point of departure from which whole
film developed. Since 2010 we start to collect and capture signs relating the fiction and the reality
of Ouarzazate, city growing to the modernity influenced by the economical and imaginary emphasis
of film production. As the story evolved, it grew to include the immediate surroundings and the people
living there and working for the movies, the world and the people devoting their lives to the cinematic
illusion.
Confirmed co‑Producers,distributors,
broadcasters, funds: Polish Film Institute,
Haut les Mains (FR), CNAP (FR)
Looking for: pre‑sales, sales agent
Contact: Anna Wydra, Otter Films,
609 841 445, www.otterfilms.pl
Producer’s e-mail: [email protected]
Director’s e-mail: [email protected]
DIRECTOR
MML is a collective formed in 2008 that experiments with film, video, its
production, its forms of writing, narratives and montages. Their theoretical vision
intertwines the fictional and the real, taking its shape by the empirical practice
of the image. Their filmic objects are shown in cinema’s screenings as well as in
the form of video installation. Their first film “The Work of Machines” was shown
at many international film festivals and as well exhibited at art galleries. It was
awarded Grand Prix for Interantional Competition on FID Marseilles.
MEMBERS: Gilles Lepore, 1972 (CH), graphic designer and illustrator, filmmaker,
graduated from art school in Biel /Bienne (CH); Maciej Mądracki 1984 (PL),
filmmaker, theorist of the image, graduate of the Institute of Audiovisual Arts
of the Jagiellonian University (Krakow, PL) and Krzysztof Kieslowski Film
School (Katowice, PL); Michal Mądracki 1979 (PL), writer – performer – director –
producer, graduated from the Jagiellonian University (Krakow, PL).
Anna
Wydra
producer
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OTTER FILMS – the Warsaw‑based production company established by Anna
Wydra, focused on art‑house fiction and documentary films for cinema and
TV, with an emphasis on the international market. Most of our projects are
international co‑productions shot in many places all over the world (incl. Haiti,
USA, Mexico, Abkhazia, Morocco, Mongolia). We are very proud that we work
on projects with great filmmakers. With B. Konopka and P. Rosołowski we have
completed “Rabbit à la Berlin” (Oscar nomination) and “The Art of Disappearing”.
Lately we premiered “Deep Love” by J. P. Matuszyński (produced with Cor Leonis
Production and HBO), “6 Degrees” by B. Dombrowski (produced with HBO and
East Pictures) and “Domino Effect” by E. Niewiera and P.Rosołowski (produced
with zero one film and RBB/ARTE).
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dir. Mateusz Romaszkan,
Marta Wójtowicz‑Wcisło
Trophy
Original title: TROFEUM
English title: TROPHY
Directors: MATEUSZ ROMASZKAN, MARTA
WÓJTOWICZ‑WCISŁO
Script: ZUZANNA SOLAKIEWICZ
DOP: N/A
Editor: MATEUSZ ROMASZKAN
Production company: TAKFILM SP. Z O.O.
Producer: KUBA KOSMA
Production country: POLAND
Production stage: EDITING
Shooting format: N/A
Estimated running time: 52’
Language: POLISH
Shooting period: N/A
Postproduction: July 2015 – June 2016
Film delivery: July 2016
Total budget: 70.000 EUR
Secured budget: 60.000 EUR
Still needed: 10.000 EUR
The protagonist of the film is a Tourist – mental heir of the colonisers, a provincial from the West – who
takes part in a trip organized by a travel agency. During the trip he does not stop filming all that he
sees. The Tourist desires to experience something real and exceptional, but his very presence makes
everything around him turn into kitsch and trinkets.
TROPHY is a film about a global journey seen through the eye of an amateur camera. It will be assembled
out of amateur videos filmed by tourists during their trips. The Tourist’s aim during his journey is to gain
a trophy – unique and authentic shots. In order to obtain them he wants to get to the most distant places,
see exotic nature and people or witness some extraordinary situation. But in the mass tourism context,
where everything is prearranged, there is no place for genuine encounter. Only when he finally gets off
the beaten track the Tourist comes close to the real life. While wondering in the Local’s crowd at the
Ganges banks the protagonist presents rituals that constitute the nerve of civilisation. But with the
camera in his hand he does not inspire confidence of Locals and the fear makes him unable to contact and
understand them. As his journey would be lost without gaining a trophy, he decides to buy a unique shots
of someone else.
Mateusz
Romaszkan
DIRECTOR
Independent film editor working with varied projects for producers, studios,
schools, institutions and broadcasters: Wajda School, Museum of Modern Art
in Warsaw, Centre for Contemporary Art Zamek Ujazdowski, MS Films, Otter
Films, Kosma Films, Handmade Pictures, Eureka Media, TVN, TVP, Polsat and
others. In 2006/2007 he worked as editor for TVN. In 2005/2006 he created
audiovisual publications of the Archive of Oral History at the Warsaw Uprising
Museum. He worked with the A4 magazine and the American ISSUE magazine
as author and photo reporter. Among his works is 2009 RABBIT A LA BERLIN
– 40’, documentary, dir. Bartosz Konopka, prod. MS Films – editing, screenplay
collaboration, nominated for the Oscars® for short documentary subject.
Marta
Wójtowicz‑Wcisło
Confirmed co‑Producers, distributors,
broadcasters, funds: POLISH FILM INSTITUTE
Looking for: distributors, broadcasters,
festivals
Contact: KUBA KOSMA, TAKFILM SP. Z O.O.,
AL. JEROZOLIMSKIE 121/123 LOK. 39, 02‑017
WARSZAWA, POLAND, tel. +48 602 435 513
Producer’s e-mail: [email protected]
Director’s e-mail: [email protected];
[email protected]
DIRECTOR
Graduated from cultural studies and doctor of political studies. She worked
as a guide in Africa and Latin America. In 2010 she carried out a research in
El Colegio de México, as a beneficiary of scholarship awarded by the Mexican
Secretariat of Foreign Affairs. In 2012‑2013 she was assistant lecturer at the
Institute of American Studies and Polish Diaspora, at the Jagiellonian University.
Translator and author of articles on Latin America. Currently she is working on the
project on political aspects in nahua culture.
Kuba
Kosma
producer
Tak film is a Warsaw‑based production company, established by Dariusz
Gajewski and Kuba Kosma. The main goal of the company is to develop and
produce polish films with the potential to cross borders and intrigue european
audiences. TAK FILM is open for minority co‑productions, which could engage
polish talents (e.G. Prominent dops) or have potential for local financing bodies.
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dir. Anna Zamęcka
When You Return
Original title: KIEDY WRÓCISZ
English title: WHEN YOU RETURN
DIRECTOR: Anna Zamęcka
Script: Anna Zamęcka
DOP: Małgorzata Szyłak
EDITOR: Agnieszka Glińska, Wojciech Janas
Production company: Otter Films, Wajda
Studio
Producers: Anna Wydra, Zuzanna
Król‑Maziarzewska, Anna Zamęcka
Production country: Poland
Production stage: postproduction
Shooting format: HD
Estimated running time: 75’
Language: Polish
Shooting period: April 2013 – March 2015
Postproduction: March 2015 – October 2015
Film delivery: Autumn 2015
Anna
Zamęcka
DIRECTOR
A graduate of Cultural Anthropology and Journalism at the University of Warsaw.
She also studied at the Film and Media Department at the Copenhagen University.
She completed training programmes and courses for filmmakers (Wajda School’s
DOK PRO Documentary Programme, ESODOC 2011, IDFAcademy Workshop 2014,
among others). ‘When You Return’ is her full‑length documentary debut.
Anna
Wydra
Total budget: 140 000 EUR
Secured budget: 75 000 EUR
Still needed: 65 000 EUR
Before Ola turned eight, her mother had moved out. She just disappeared one day. She didn’t come back
the next day or any other day after that. The girl can’t remember when she stopped waiting, but she
remembers very clearly the moment she realized that from now on, she has to take care of her alcoholic
father and autistic brother. While she was learning to read and write at school, at home she had to set her
father’s alarm so that he wouldn’t be late for work, she had to look after her brother.
She was determined to do whatever it takes to make him a “normal boy”. She taught him to play football,
fight and swear. The problem was that Nikodem didn’t want to be a boy anymore. He believed that he was
a chimpanzee and that one day he will grow fur and strong claws.
Now Ola is an adolescent of fourteen. She wants to have a normal home. That is why she is so eager
to send her brother to First Holy Communion; she wants to have a family dinner and gifts, like everyone
else. But there is one more reason why she teaches him the catechism so stubbornly.
For Ola the celebration of the First Communion is most of all an opportunity to meet her mum. She
promised she would come. The truth is Ola never stopped waiting for her.
Confirmed co‑Producers,distributors,
broadcasters, funds: Wajda Studio, Polish
Film Institute
Looking for: sales agent, co‑producers,
pre‑sales
Contact: Anna Wydra, Otter Films,
+48 609 841 445, www.otterfilms.pl
Producer’s e‑mail: [email protected]
Director’s e‑mail: [email protected]
producer
OTTER FILMS – the Warsaw‑based production company established by Anna
Wydra, focused on art‑house fiction and documentary films for cinema and
TV, with an emphasis on the international market. Most of our projects are
international co- productions shot in many places all over the world (incl. Haiti,
USA, Mexico, Abkhazia, Morocco, Mongolia). We are very proud that we work
on projects with great filmmakers. With B. Konopka and P. Rosołowski we have
completed “Rabbit à la Berlin” (Oscar nomination) and “The Art of Disappearing”.
Lately we premiered “Deep Love” by J. P. Matuszyński (produced with Cor Leonis
Production and HBO), “6 Degrees” by B. Dombrowski (produced with HBO and
East Pictures) and “Domino Effect” by E. Niewiera and P.Rosołowski (produced
with zero one film and RBB/ARTE).
Zuzanna
Król-Maziarzewska
producer
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Wajda Studio is focused on development and production of art house films,
both fiction and documentary with a strong artistic vision. The Studio makes
a difference through artistic supervision from the best Polish and European artists,
and by playing an emphasis on project development. Among the achievements
of the Wajda Studio there are more than 50 documentary and fiction films, and
over 200 shorts. In addition, our films have been screened and awarded at major
festivals including Berlinale, San Sebastian, Karlovy Vary, Hot Docs, IDFA, DOK
Leipzig and European Film Awards and Oscars nominee. The Studio has twice
been awarded the Best Documentary and Short Films Producer prize at the
Krakow Film Festival, in 2008 and 2010.
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dir. Marcin Kopeć
Walking Spark
Original title: NAUKA CHODZENIA
English title: WALKING SPARK
Director: Marcin Kopeć
DOP: Filip Drożdż
Editor: Anna Maria Filipow
Producer: Dawid Janicki, Joanna Szymańska
Production company: SHIPsBOY Ltd.
Production country: Poland
Production stage: start ediNng the film
Shooting format: 16:9
Estimated running time: 52’ or 70’
Language: polish
Shooting period: 2013 – 2015 – completed
Postproduction: beginning of 2016
Estimated date of Film delivery: the first
half of 2016
Marcin
Kopeć
DIRECTOR
Marcin Kopec graduated from the University of Gdansk, field of study: Philosophy,
School of Photographic in Sopot, School of Music in New York and the School
of Wajda’s on the documentary course DOK PRO 2012/2013. Author of reportages,
music videos of Polish off bands and adverNsing spots. He was the bassist in the
Tri‑band opeat “Pancerne Rusalki” and was producing music. “Walking Spark” is
his directorial debut.
Total budget: 85 000 EUR
Secured budget: 85 000 EUR
Still needed: 0 EUR (guaranteed financing)
The main character is multidimensional – a gangster who tries to be a good man. Unfortunately, in his
case it is not so easey. For the whole life he made people suffer and aroused fear in them.
Peter – forty‑five years old former member of Warsaw’s mafia auer leaving the prison has been trying
to make a new start in life. Trying to put the sins of the past behind him, he is taking the first legal job
in a hospice. The viewer is observing a character who takes the first steps in normal society, breaks its
internal and external lock and is struggling with weakness. His avempts to transfer the hospice’s patients
a livle human warmth got emotional. At the same time we are witnessing his relation to the gangster past
– still glorifies it. Objectively, he is aware what he did wrong, but subjectively it was the best period in his
life, the only one when he had ‘family’, Money and power. Today his is all by himself and have troubles
with finding himself in society.
A person who begins to approach him is Magda – artist, ASP’s graduate. Touched by his tragic childhood,
she decides to create a stop motion animation about his fate. Peter visits Magda in her home in the
country- side full of warmth and family atmosphere. The relationship between them is not easy, yet both
will gain a lot.
At the end of the film there is one question: will Peter be able to adjust to his new life based on other
values than those previously confessed, will his transformation last?
Confirmed co‑producers, funds,
distributors, broadcasters: Polish Film
InsNtute, Mazovia Film Fund, Public Polish
Television (TVP2)
Looking for: sales agent, the premiere
internaNonal fesNval
Contact: Joanna Szymańska,
SHIPsBOY sp. z o.o. Bukowińska 30/7, 02‑703
Warszawa, Poland
Producer’s email: [email protected]
mobile: +48 607 816 342
Director’s email:
[email protected]
Joanna
Szymańska
producer
Joanna Szymańska. Producer and executive producer. Partner at SHIPsBOY.
For three years, she was head of the Production Department at Wajda Studio,
producing over a dozen short feature and documentary films (including being
involved in the Oscar‑nominated Joanna directed by Aneta Kopacz). Graduate
of the Berlinale Talent Campus (2011), participant of 2015 EAVE. She has
completed a four‑month internship with Ed Guiney (Element Pictures, Dublin),
with whom she continues cooperating as an independent consultant since January
2015. In 2014, she was awarded the Best Short and Documentary Film Producer
award during the 54th Kraków Film Festival for Mleczny brat [Milky Brother]
(directed by Vahram Mkhitaryan, produced by Wajda Studio). Joanna is a voting
member of the European Film Academy.
SHIPsBOY Ltd. movie production company was founded in 2013, focuses on the
development and implementation of movie projects with international potential.
The company already has in possessions highly successful series of animated
documentaries “Wartime Portraits”, awarded by the Silver Medal in the category
of ‘History and Society’ at the New York Festivals World’s Best TV&Films 2015.
Individual team membes’experience includes the realizaNon of both short feature
and documentaries movies as well as full‑lenght feature movie projects (indluding
“Out Of Love” and “Sanctuary”).
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dir. Wojciech Pustoła
White Cube
Original title: White Cube
English title: White Cube
Directing: Wojciech Pustoła
Script: Wojciech Pustoła
DOP: Wojciech Pustoła, Bartosz Świniarski
Editing: TBC
Production company: ENDORFINA studio
Producer: Marta Golba
Production country: Poland
Production stage: pre‑production
Shooting format: HD
Estimated running time: 52‘
Language: Italian, English, Polish
Shooting period: SEPTEMBER 2015 – APRIL 2016
Postproduction: MAY 2016 – SEPTEMBER 2016
Film delivery: OCTOBER 2016
Total budget: 120 000 EUR
As every precious thing white marble of Carrara has its worshippers – stone sculptors. They indulge their
passion hidden in countless laboratories covered with marble dust from head to toe. It has always been
that way. It is no more.
Contemporary engineering has shaken foundations of that world by developing a robot, which can
produce virtually any 3D marble form from a computer file. The robot’s name is Antropomorfo. Streams
of data gather a cloud of points in its steal head. The robot doesn’t have much choice – it executes given
matrix. Conceptual artists from all over the globe thrive on the idea of marble forms being created
straight from an e‑mail.
Stone is patient. It doesn’t mind the peculiarity of art production, but for stone sculptors and craftsmen it
means a slow and painful death.
Some of the survivors desperately try to keep the conservative agenda going. Others collaborate with the
enemy, being forced to forsake their identity.
‘White Cube‘ depicts people torn by a conflict between conservative and progressive aproach in
contemporary art. Carrara is a scene of an uneven fight, where old confronts the new and the stake is
survival.
Wojciech
Pustoła
DIRECTOR
Born in 1980 in Warsaw. A visual artist. His area of interest is film making,
sculpture, performance and scenography. Graduate of Sculpture Department and
Multimedia Department on Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw and Poznan. Showed
his works in various exhibitions such as ‘Coming Soon’ in Temporary Gallery
Cologne; Vordemberge‑Gildewart Fund Award in Museum of Contemporary Art
Cracow; Wro Biennale. Affiliated with ‘Centrum w Ruchu’, a contemporary dance
platform for choreographers and performers, as an author of video installations
and scenography notable for its minimalistic and functional approach. Lives and
works in Warsaw, Poland.
Confirmed co‑Producers, distributors,
broadcasters, funds: Polish Film Institue
(Development) 7 000 EUR, confirmed, Own
investment (Development), 8 000 EUR,
Confirmed, Polish Film Institue (Production),
45 000 EUR, TBC /in process; TVP 30 000 EUR
TBC; other sources (TV, international
partners, art foundations PL & INT) 30 000
EUR TBC /in process
Looking for: co‑production, sales
Contact: ENDORFINA studio: Marta Golba,
tel. +48501065821, Marta Bacewicz,
[email protected],
tel. +48502099080,
Producer’s e-mail: [email protected]
Director’s e-mail: [email protected]
Marta
Golba
producer
ENDORFINA studio – We keep a close watch on the changes of the film
market, which enables us to find new opportunities for financing, distributing and
promoting our films, aimed both for the cinema and for TV. The founder of the
company, producer Marta Golba, has long been part of the film milieu paving new
paths for film development. With Marta Bacewicz, curator and project coordinator
in national and international cultural institutions, they combine different
experiences from the fields of culture and art. First film produced by ENDORFINA
studio was multiply awarded documentary ’15 Corners of the World’ by Zuzanna
Solakiewicz. Film was premiered at IFF Locarno and won Critics’ Week Award
there.
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dir. Jarosław Wszędybył
The Dragon Spring
Original title: WIOSNA SMOKÓW
English title:THE DRAGON SPRING
Director: JAROSŁAW WSZĘDYBYŁ
Script: JAROSŁAW WSZĘDYBYŁ
DOP: MICHAŁ OPALA
Editior: ARKADIUSZ IWANIUK
Production company: MOTH FILMS MAGDALENA
BRYK
Producer: MAGDALENA BRYK
Production country: POLAND
Production stage: POSTPRODUCTION
Shooting format: 16:9 hd color
Estimated running time: 65’
Language: POLISH
Shooting period: DECEMBER 2014 – MAY 2015
Postproduction: JUNE 2015 – OCTOBER 2015
Film delivery: NOVEMBER 2015
Jarosław
Wszędybył
DIRECTOR
Studied under the giants of Polish documentary Kazimierz Karabasz and Lidia
Zonn. As their student, he completed two shorts: “Jaguars Prowl The Streets”
(2006) and,,Colors Of Hope” (2008). His next film “Playing With Time” (2010) was
screened at numerous polish festivals and won one of main prizes at the Festival
of Media in Lodz, helmed that year by Marcel Łoziński. Jaroslaw Wszedybyl also
works in fiction (e.g.: II director of “The Caged Swallow” by Bartosz Warwas and
script doctor of “My Name Is Ki” by Leszek Dawid) and as an academic teacher.
Currently he is preparing two feature‑length documentaries – “The Dragon Spring”
and “The End Of The Valley of Tears”.
Total budget: 79 500 EUR
Secured budget: 79 500 EUR
Still needed: 0 EUR
Football is more than a sport. It’s a religion. All over the world, on all of the Earth’s continents millions
of people play football. Brwiny Red Dragons do it as well. Although the results they achieve are quite
mediocre, it does not deprive them of hope that their fate will change one day. “The Dragon Spring” tells
the story about this team and their coach Paweł, a man whose goal is to get The Dragons up from their
knees.
The story is based on the real life of the football team during the season’s final round. It is full
of sensations and twists and turns because just like the real life, football can be painfully predictable but
totally astonishing as well. The story begins when young 25 year old coach Paweł, dreaming of working in
London Arsenal, visits Mikołaj, Red Dragons football club president to offer his coaching to the Dragons
team. Paweł is extremely motivated. He conducts his first training sessions. The Dragons are not used
to such a stressful aproach. Soon the hard times begin. Only two or three guys come back for the next
trening sessions. Paweł realizes that his job will be more demanding than he expected...
“The Dragon Spring“ is the story about outsiders and their pure and impeccable passion for life. In
a wider perspective this is the story of harsh and frequently ruthless world of football. Microcosmos
of Dragons is in fact a macrocosmos of a sport as such and of football in particular.
Magdalena
Bryk
Confirmed co‑Producers,distributors,
broadcasters, funds:. PISF (Polish Film
Institute, HBO Poland)
Looking for: sales agents, distributors, tv
buyers, festivals
Contact: MOTH FILMS Magdalena Bryk,
Gzinka 36, 99‑420 Łyszkowice, Poland,
tel.+48 517242 675
Producer’s email: [email protected]
Director’s email: [email protected]
producer
Moth Films Magdalena Bryk, a company operating in Warsaw since 2014,
specializing in the production of films, commercials and music videos. MOTH
FILMS works with polish and foreign clients. In April of 2015 commercial created
for the customer BOSE took 5th place in the global advertising competition.
Movies in production: “The Dragon Spring”, documentary, dir. Jarosław
Wszędybył, “Wolta”, documentary, dir. Monika Kotecka & Karolina Poryzała,
“A Story found in Wistula“, animation, Polish – Finnish coproduction, dir. Michał
Barylski.
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dir. Marcin Krawczyk
Land of the Homeless
Original title: ZIEMIA BEZDOMNYCH
English title: Land of the homeless
Director: Marcin Krawczyk
Script: Marcin Krawczyk
DOP: PAWEŁ DylLus, Marcin Kukielski
Editor: Aleksandra Panisko
Production company: Janos Film Production
Marcin Krawczyk
Producer: Marcin Krawczyk
Production country: Poland
Marcin
Krawczyk
DIRECTOR, producer
Born in 1978 in Tomaszów Lubelski. He works as an actor. He graduated from
Documentary Course in the Andrzej Wajda Master School of Film Directing.
Author of award winning short documentary films “Rendez‑vous” (premiered at
Berlinale), “Six Weeks” (Best Short at IDFA) and “Mother 24/7”.
Total budget: 121 000 EUR
Secured budget: 51 000 EUR
Still needed: 70 000 EUR
It is a documentary film project dedicated to a group of homeless people who, since 2007, have been
building an ocean‑going yacht. Their goal is to complete the construction of the “Ark” and to set off
on a one‑and‑a‑half‑year cruise around the world, as a kind of therapy helping them come out of their
homelessness. The idea was instilled in them by a Camillian, Father Boguslaw, who died in 2009. Since
then, the idea to build the yacht and sail around the world has become even more of a challenge for his
“charges”. The mission continues. The homeless, led by Captain Waldemar Rzeznicki realise the common
dream not only of breaking the stereotypical thinking about homeless people, but primarily to help
themselves. The protagonists are nonconformists, maladjusted to life in society, but wishing a decent
living. These are losers who cannot accept the rules of reality, or those whom dramatic twists of fate have
thrown overboard of everyday life in society. Now they have a chance for adventure, a lesson, a therapy,
quitting their bad habits and gaining independence. They can find the motivation to fight for themselves.
Excluded from the scope of the society, they now take the challenge – they build their ark, their asylum.
The film attempts to answer the question of the meaning of our existence, the needs of the individual, and
how great a role in the life of a man is played by a Father, or lack thereof. Will they manage to complete
the work they have started? What gives them the strength and motivation to continue their noble cause?
Will any of the heroes manage to drag themselves out of homelessness? What is the role of the father in
the life of a man?
Confirmed co‑Producers,distributors,
broadcasters, funds: Presales – TVP,
distributor – Torus Film
Looking for: Co‑Producers, festivals
Contact: Janos Film Production, Promenada
23/8, 00‑778 Warsaw, Poland
Producer’s email: [email protected]
Director’s email: [email protected]
Paweł
Dyllus
© Hubert Komerski
Production stage: Postproduction
Shooting format: 16:9
Estimated running time: 52‘
Language: Polish
Shooting period: MARCH 2014 – APRIL 2015
Postproduction: MAY 2015 – SEPTEMBER 2015
Film delivery: OCTOBER 2015
DOP
Born in 1981. Feature and documentary cinematographer. His lates works are
“Life feels good” by Maciej Pieprzyca, “Superunit” by Teresa Czepiec and “+\-” by
Bogdan Dziworski. Last year he has spend on filming new feature projects for
Armenian and Indian directors.
JANOS FILM PRODUCTION was established in 2010. The main aim of the company
is to produce art house documentary projects by Marcin Janos Krawczyk, the
director of the films “Rendez‑Vous” (2006), “Six Weeks” (2009), “Mother 24/7”
(2013), frequently awarded at international film festivals. Currently, the film
“The Land of the Homeless” and the documentary series “The Homeless’ Cruise
Around the World” are at the production stage. The company’s mission is to bring
attention to social issues.
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POLAND – LITHUANIA CO‑PRODUCTION MEETINGS
POLAND – LITHUANIA CO‑PRODUCTION MEETINGS
LITHUANIA
DISTRIBUTION AND PROMOTION
PARTNERS
Main distributors
Documentary production companies
ACME Film www.acmefilm.com
Garsų pasaulio įrašai www.gpi.lt
Forum Cinemas www.forumcinemas.lt
A‑One Films Baltic www.a‑onefilms.lt
Planetos filmai www.skalvija.lt
Kino pasaka www.kinopasaka.lt
MEED Films www.meedfilms.com
Theatrical Film Distribution dukine.lt/contact
Visos Mūzos www.kinofestivalis.lt/lt
Kino centras “Garsas“
www.garsas.lt/filmai/garso‑platinami‑filmai
Top Film Baltic www.topfilm.lv
Prior Entertainment www.prior.lt/lt
Incognito Films www.incognitofilms.lt/en/apie‑mus
Studio Nominum (the only distributor for documentaries)
arunasmatelis.com/en
Priem Field www.primefield.lt
Artbox www.artbox.lt
Monoklis www.monoklis.lt
Ironcat www.caritasetamor.lt
Studija Ju www.studijaju.lt
Moonmakers www.moonmakers.lt
Nominum www.nominum.lt
Tremora www.treora.com
Ūkų Studija www.stonys.lt
Fralita Films www.fralitafilms.lt
Čiobreliai www.ciobreliai.lt
Studija “Kinema” www.kinema.lt
Ketvirta versija www.unnecessaryfilms.eu
TV Europa www.tveuropa.lt
Gin‑Dia www.filmuoja.gindia.lt
Just a Moment www.justamoment.lt
Ramūno atelje www.ramuno‑atelje.lt
Porta Artis [email protected]
10 MUST–KNOW FACTS & RULES
FUNDING
Funding bodies (public sources)
Lietuvos kino centras. Seeking to encourage the
development of Lithuanian film sector, Lietuvos kino centras
provides funding for film development, production, distribution,
promotion, education projects and preservation of film
heritage. Debut films are also eligible for support. State funding
may not exceed 50% of the film production budget and 75%
of a low‑budget film or experimental budget film. Not more than
20% of state funding allocated to film production may be used
outside Lithuania.
Films produced under co‑production conditions are given priority
in allocating state funding. Projects submitted for funding are
evaluated by the Film Council. It is a collegial advisory institution
of the Lietuvos kino centras and consists of 7 members from film
creators, film experts, film producers, and representatives of the
Lietuvos kino centras.
State Support for Film 2015
State Support to Film Industry 2015
State Support for Film 2014
State support to Lithuanian Film Industry 2014
State Support for Film 2013
Film associations & promotion agencies:
Alliance of cinema auteurs www.autoriniokinoaljansas.lt
Lithuanian Filmmakers union www.kinosajunga.lt
Independent Producers’ Association
www.filmproducers.lt
Film Industry Association [email protected]
Lithuanian Association of Cinematographers lac.lt
Lithuanian Shorts agency filmshorts.lt
More information: www.lkc.lt/en/financing
Documentary film festivals
Lithuanian Council Of Culture. funded activities:
Professional film art promotion in Lithuania:
• Film programes, retrospectives, film presentations, lectures,
seminars;
• publications that represent the evolution of cinema art (books,
monographs, albums, magazines);
• information about the art of film accumulation and
dissemination of professional critical, analytical reflection articles
in the press and on the Internet.
Vilnius Documentary Film Festival (VDFF) is proud to have
a loyal and intellectual audience, as well as appreciation from
documentary filmmakers from the Baltic States, who annually
make appearances at the festival.
The organizers have always been searching for a dialogue with
its audience; therefore various discussions are organized to bring
the spectators together with the filmmakers. Many renowned
documentary gurus had participated in these meetings. The
master classes are meant to strengthen international networking
within documentary field and create space to produce new ideas,
cooperation opportunities and to enrich the knowledge of the
new generation of documentary filmmakers. www.vdff.lt
More information: ltkt.lt/en
Main television stations producing
documentary content.
Main TV station that produces documentary content is Lithuanian
National Radio and Television.
Other funding – regional funds & tax
incentives
Tax incentives. The new Lithuanian Tax Incentives went into
effect in January 2014. From now on Lithuania offers you up
to 20% of Lithuanian production budget.
The new scheme involves a foreign production company,
a Lithuanian production company, a local donor providing
financial support to the film and the Lietuvos kino centras that
administers the scheme.
More information: www.lkc.lt/en/tax‑incentives/
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Inconvenient Films – international documentary film festival,
taking place in Vilnius, Lithuania. Established in 2007 as an
annual film event it is currently the biggest documentary film
festival in the country. The festival invites filmmakers, experts,
activists and festival audience to appreciate and discuss the role
of documentaries in reflecting and shaping our understanding
of reality. The mission of this festival is to use award winning
author driven films in raising awareness about human rights
issues around the world, encouraging public debate on ways
to address them. www.nepatoguskinas.lt/site/en
English language websites about national
filmmaking
Lithuanian Film Centre (LFC). The purpose of the LFC is
to promote Lithuanian cinematography. The principal goal
of LFC is to collect information about Lithuanian film artists and
provide the latest news about Lithuanian cinema. These goals
are reflected in the structure of the website with a news and
events section updated on a regular basis and an ever‑expanding
database offering comprehensive information about people
professionally associated with Lithuanian film.
Film schools
Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre
Study programmes in theatre and film: Acting, Cinematography,
Film Directing, Screenwriting, Theatre Directing.
www.lmta.lt/en
Vytautas Magnus University Faculty of Arts
New Media Art – a programme designed to prepare professional
media specialists for creative work and media art projects
management. The study of art (photography, video, sound
art, computer graphics and multimedia technologies) is
complemented by studies of audiovisual culture, communication,
analysis and management of contemporary art processes,
curatorship and principles of personal carrier management.
Acting – a programme designed to prepare highly qualified
performing artists for success in the fields of acting,
screenwriting, directing, dance and vocal performance. VMU
acting students receive guidance in all of these areas, and
are made ready for their careers in theatre, cinema, TV and
other forms of contemporary art. The programme fosters
independence and encourages openness to new forms of art,
promoting the integration of different areas of contemporary art
and sustainable collaboration within the creative industries.
www.menufakultetas.vdu.lt
Multimedia art and design
Multimedia Art course at Šiauliai University Art
Faculty was introduced in 2002. Since then it is preparing
students to integrate contemporary media through current
computer video and audio technologies. Most of the students
work with stop motion animation by which contemporary visual
and audio ideas are being addressed. This course was led
by many well know multimedia and contemporary Lithuanian
artists such as Regina Šulskytė, Tomas Andrijauskas, Remigijus
Venckus, Rimantas Plungė, Alvydas Lukys, Virginijus Malčius,
Arūnas Uogintas and many more.
www.su.lt/en/siauliai‑university‑su
Vilnius Gediminas Technical University
one of the largest schools of higher education in Lithuania,
which strives for a leading position among the Baltic countries
in technical and engineeringeducation as well as in the field
of scientific research.The study programme Multimedia and
Computer Design offers students a possibility to specialise in
production, programming and creative multimedia projects.
This study programme encompasses visual design, 2D and
3D animation, movement graphic, graphic design, interactive
design, audio and video production, special effects, video games
design, 3D modelling, human‑computer interface. In the study
programme the emphasis is put on 2D and 3D animation. Upon
completion of the study programme students receive BA in
Information Technologies. www.multimedija.vgtu.lt
Vilnius College of Technologies and Design (VTDK)
Offers more than twenty courses in design, engineering,
sciences, technology and transport. Studies focus on practical
activities, enabling students to gain professional knowledge and
gain a bachelor’s degree. Multimedia design study programme
is aimed at fostering creative and innovative specialists
who would suit the needs of the dynamic market of creative
industries, and to prepare a multimedia product creator who
is able to implement their own or others’ creative multimedia
projects through both individual work and teamwork. Multimedia
design program allows students to choose one of four
specializations: animation, audiovisual editing, sound design
and interactive design. Studies are available in full‑time form.
Duration of full‑time studies is 3 years. Students learn the basics
of creative industries production and specialise in a chosen field.
Multimedia design studies are based on a system of modules, the
core of which is problem‑solving‑directed design learning. The
study process combines individual activities and project group
work, oriented towards business and constant changes in the
media culture. www.vtdko.lt/en/
Animation
Vilnius Academy of Arts (VDA)
the leading visual art university in Lithuania. The Department
of Photography and Media Art offers two specializations:
photography and media art (BA and MA) and animation
(BA). It aims at raising professional artists with a broad
expertise in humanities and arts, knowledgeable in and having
a good command of contemporary photography and media
technologies, and able to create original and professional art
works. The new animation program is based on undergraduate
studies. Summer practice and a summer academy, led
by professional artists is an integral part of the learning process.
Studies are completed by publicly defended thesis, which is
sometimes presented in international animation festivals. During
the four years of study graduates are prepared to work not only
in Lithuania, but also in animation studios of other European
countries. www.media.vda.lt
Ten must–know names in documentary
filmmaking (directors)
1. Algirdas Tarvydas
2. Arūnas Matelis
3. Audrius Stonys
4. Edmundas Zubavičius
5. Giedrė Beinoriūtė
6. Giedrė Žickytė
7. Janina Lapinskaitė
8. Oksana Buraja
9. Rimantas Gruodis
10. Robertas Verba
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POLAND
10 MUST–KNOW FACTS & RULES
FUNDING
Funding bodies (public sources)
The Polish Film Institute (Polski Instytut Sztuki Filmowej,
PISF) provides subsidies and loans. For 2015, the Institute
has allocated a sum of EUR 20.7 million for film production
programmes:
• Project Development
A subsidy from PISF under the Project Development objective
may not exceed 70% of the planned costs of the undertaking and
the limits set out in the table.
• Film Production
A subsidy granted by the PISF for features, documentaries and
animated films under the Film Production objective may not
exceed 50% of the planned costs of the undertaking and the
limits set out in the table below.
The exception to this is a difficult film project*, which may
receiving a subsidy of up to as much as 70% of the production
costs. When applying for production funding, the producer is
obliged to contribute a minimum of 5% of the planned costs
of the undertaking. This contribution may be financial or
a combination of financial and contribution in kind. At the same
time, a contribution in kind may constitute no more than 95%
of the producer’s entire contribution.
Documentary films:
arthouse | artistic | auteur >70 min
max subsidy 233 000 € difficult film 140 000 €
arthouse | artistic | auteur 40‑70 min
maximum subsidy 70 000 € difficult film 47 000 €
arthouse | artistic | auteur <40 min
maximum subsidy 47 000 € difficult film 23 000 €
historical >70 min
maximum subsidy 349 000 € difficult film 233 000 €
historical 40‑70 min
maximum subsidy 140 000 € difficult film 58 000 €
historical <40 min:
maximum subsidy 58 000 € difficult film 35 000 €
* a film of artistically ambitious content and form, with limited commercial
appeal, or a directorial debut or second film
Main television stations producing
documentary content
Telewizja Polska is a state enterprise and the only public
broadcaster in Poland. It transmits thirteen television channels,
which include genre‑based channels devoted to history and
to culture, as well as Belsat TV, a satellite channel broadcasting
in Belarusian. The TVP VoD channel also belongs to Telewizja
Polska.
The organisational unit responsible for production within TVP
is the Television and Film Production Agency. In turn, the tasks
of the International Affairs Office include the purchase and sale
of rights and licences and the co‑ordination of international
co‑productions. TVP also has sixteen regional divisions.
HBO Polska, which is part of HBO Europe, belongs to the
American Home Box Office holding. A premium television
broadcaster, it transmits eleven film channels. HBO Polska
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produces documentaries and television series and is occasionally
involved in the co‑production of feature films. Documentary films
made with the participation of HBO Polska are frequent award
winners at both national and international festivals.
Other funding – regional funds
Regional film funds
There is a well‑developed network of regional film funds in
Poland and their operations encompass most of the Polish
regions. There are currently nine operating funds and more will
be launched. In the case of Lower Silesia, Łódź, Małopolska,
Mazovia, Silesia, and Poznań, the regional film commissions
work alongside the film funds. In general, the Polish regional
film funds seek film projects by announcing competitions. One
basic condition for entering a project for a competition is that
it is related to a city, town or the region, either in its theme or
its setting, or through the participation of local people and
companies in its production. Support is also contingent on the
expending of at least 100% of the funding within the region (in
some cases 150%).
The funds are interested in consolidating and enhancing the
positive image of the city, town or region, which is why projects
intending to use distinctive locations, sites and buildings receive
the most favourable assessments. Foreign producers are also
welcome to submit projects, though preferably as partners
to Polish producers. All the documentation must be completed in
Polish.
In addition, the Krakow International Film Fund
(Międzynarodowy Fundusz Filmowy w Krakowie) was launched
in 2014. A competition is held for the purpose of co‑financing
international co‑productions intended primarily for cinema
distribution and with the aim of developing cooperation between
the European audiovisual sector and that of other countries. Film
projects must be connected to Krakow in terms of their theme or
topic, the authors and, most importantly, the place of production.
They must also involve the participation of at least two producers
from other countries.
GDYNIA FILM FUND www.ckgdynia.pl
LOWER SILESIAN FILM COMPETITION
www.wroclawfilmcommission.pl/dkf
LUBLIN FILM FUND www.film.lublin.eu
ŁÓDŹ FILM FUND www.lodzfilmcommission.pl
KRAKOW REGIONAL FILM FUND www.film‑commission.pl
MAZOVIA FILM FUND www.mff.mazovia.pl
POZNAN FILM FUND www.poznanfilmcommission.pl
SILESIAN FILM FUND www.silesiafilm.com
WESTERN POMERANIAN FILM FUND www.pomeraniafilm.pl
DISTRIBUTION AND PROMOTION
Main distributors of the documentary films
AGAINST GRAVITY www.againstgravity.pl | www.docsag.pl
GUTEK FILM www.gutekfilm.pl
HAGI www.hagi.pl
KRAKOWSKA FUNDACJA FILMOWA www.kff.com.pl
SOLOPAN www.solopan.com.pl
SPECTATOR www.spectator.com.pl
STOWARZYSZENIE NOWE HORYZONTY www.nowehoryzonty.pl
Film associations & promotion agencies
FILM COMMISSION POLAND
www.filmcommissionpoland.pl
POLISH FILMMAKERS ASSOCIATION
www.sfp.org.pl
POLISH AUDIOVISUAL PRODUCERS CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
(KIPA)
www.kipa.pl
POLISH SOCIETY OF CINEMATOGRAPHERS
www.psc.pl
POLISH ASSOCIATION OF EDITORS (PSM)
www.psm.org.pl
UNION OF POLISH ACTORS (ZZAP)
www.zzap.aktorzy.org
DIRECTORS GUILD OF POLAND DIRECTORS
www.polishdirectors.com
FILM PROMOTION AGENCY (KRAKOW FILM FOUNDATION)
www.kff.com.pl | www.polishdocs.pl | www.polishshorts.pl
POLISH ANIMATION PRODUCERS ASSOCIATION (SPPA)
www.sppa.eu
Documentary film festivals
Krakow Film Festival
The Krakow Film Festival is one of the oldest events in Europe
which is devoted to documentary, animated and short feature
films. Around two hundred and fifty films from Poland and all
over the world are shown in a programme consisting of the
competition sections and special screenings such as thematic
cycles, retrospectives and archival materials. The films compete
for the main awards; the Golden Dragon, the Golden Hobby
Horse, the Golden Horn and the Golden Heynal. The festival
is accompanied by exhibitions, concerts, open‑air screenings,
meetings with filmmakers and the Krakow Film Market, where
industry screenings are held. The Krakow Film Festival is
accredited by the International Federation of Film Producers
Associations (FIAPF), the European Film Academy (EFA) and the
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science.
www.krakowfilmfestival.com
Docs Against Gravity Film Festival
Docs Against Gravity Film Festival presents a selection of the
best, and often award‑winning, feature‑length documentaries
from around the world. The organisers’ collaboration with
cinemas throughout Poland means that the festival takes place
not only in Warsaw, but also in twenty other cities across the
country. It includes the presentation of eleven awards.,. The
programme of films is accompanied by discussions with the
filmmakers, as well as the Documentary Academy, a series
of masterclasses for film professionals and lectures and
workshops for teachers and young filmgoers.
www.docsag.pl
WATCH DOCS
WATCH DOCS. Human Rights in Film is one of the oldest and
largest human rights film festivals in the world, which annually
gathers several dosen thousand viewers in the whole country.
WATCH DOCS harnesses the strength of documentary cinema
(the power of testimonial, representation of reality) exposing
viewers to their own immediate and more distant contexts from
the angle of human rights.
www.watchdocs.pl
OFF CINEMA
International Documentary Film Festival OFF CINEMA taking
place in Poznan is a competition festival, which presents
documentary films from around the world. The best documents
a jury of eminent filmmakers, film critics and entertainers awards:
Gold, Silver and Bronze Castle.
www.offcinema.pl
English language websites about national
filmmaking
www.pisf.pl/en
www.filmcommissionpoland.pl
www.international.kipa.pl
www.polishdocs.pl
www.polishshorts.pl
PARTNERS
Documentary production companies
AFILM www.afilm.pl
AGENCJA ARTYSTYCZNA PARTUS www.partus.pl
AKSON STUDIO www.akson‑studio.pl
ARKANA STUDIO www.arkanastudio.pl
BERES&BARON MEDIA PRODUCTIONS www.swiatmasens.pl
BWM ART www.bwmart.pl
CENTRALA www.centralafilm.pl
CHILLI PRODUCTIONS www.chilliproductions.com
COLAB PICTURES www.colabpictures.com
DARKLIGHT FILM STUDIO www.darklight.pl
DRYGAS PRODUCTION [email protected]
ENDORFINA STUDIO www.endorfinastudio.com
EUREKA MEDIA www.eurekamedia.info
FILMICON DOM FILMOWY www.filmicon.pl
FUNDACJA FILMOWA im Władysława Ślesickiego
www.fundfilm.pl
GRANIZA www.graniza.pl
KAMEROVID [email protected]
KIJORA [email protected]
OTTER FILMS www.otterfilms.pl
PLESNAR & KRAUSS FILMS www.plesnarandkrauss.com
POKROMSKI STUDIO www.pokromskistudio.pl
RAGUSA FILM www.ragusafilm.pl
SCORPIO STUDIO www.scorpio‑studio.com
SHIPSBOY www.shipsboy.com
STAROŃ – FILM www.staronfilm.pl
STUDIO FILMOWE EVEREST www.studioeverest.pl
STUDIO FILMOWE KALEJDOSKOP www. kalejdoskopfilm.pl
STUDIO FILMOWE LOGOS www.logosfilm.pl
STUDIO MUNKA (THE MUNK STUDIO) www.studiomunka.pl
TOUCH FILMS www.touchfilms.pl
VIDEO STUDIO GDAŃSK www.videostudio.com.pl
WAJDA STUDIO www.wajdastudio.pl
WYTWÓRNIA FILMÓW OŚWIATOWYCH www.wfo.com.pl
ZOYDA ART PRODUCTION www.zoyda.pl
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Film schools
Polish National Film School in Łódź
This oldest and biggest Polish film school was founded in 1948.
Each year, it produces around 300 short films. In the recent
years, the school produced a wide range of films, diversified
both in terms of subjects as well as form. Among them were the
widely acclaimed fiction film Arena by Martin Rath, an animation
Ab Ovo by Anita Kwiatkowska Naqvi, and Fragments by Aga
Woszczyńska, screened in Cannes. The school also produces
documentaries such as Croissant by Paweł Ziemilski (2012),
which received a special distinction at the Oberhausen Short
Film Festival in 2013 and was nominated to the main award at the
IDFA Festival in 2012.
www.filmschool.lodz.pl
Krzysztof Kieślowski Faculty of Radio and Television
The school was created in 1978 at the University of Silesia in
Katowice. Each year, around 60 films are produced at the faculty.
The school has been known for excellent fiction films, like the
acclaimed All Souls’ Day by Aleksandra Terpińska or Magma
by Paweł Maślony. However, the school’s documentaries are
also doing quite well: for instance, The Fourth Man by Krzysztof
Kasior had screenings at dozens of festivals all around the world,
like Tampere, Belgrade, and Uppsala.
www.writv.pl
Wajda School
The Wajda School, created in 2001, produces around 10
documentaries and fiction films each year. The school’s biggest
recent success was an Academy Award nomination for Joanna,
directed by Aneta Kopacz (2013). The film, shot by an Oscar
nominated cinematographer Łukasz Żal only in 2014, was
screened at 26 international festivals and it received 13 awards,
including two main awards at the Palm Springs International
Shortfest and a Best Documentary at the Los Angeles Film
Awards. Another film produced at the Wajda School, When
I Am A Bird by Monika Pawluczuk, was the third best Polish
short documentary of 2014 in terms of the number of festival
screenings and awards.. Another film worth mentioning is
Paparazzi by Piotr Bernaś, a Best Short Film nominee at the 2011
European Film Awards.
www.wajdaschool.pl
Warsaw Film School
Each year, the Warsaw Film School produces around 15
films. Until recently, they were mostly fiction films; however,
great international success and this year’s Academy Award
nomination for Our Curse by Tomasz Śliwiński boosted interest
in documentary among students and brought on changes in the
school’s curriculum. The film had its international premiere at
the Locarno Film Festival; since then, it was screened at 45 film
festivals and it received around 30 awards.
www.szkolafilmowa.pl
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Gdynia Film School
Gdynia Film School was founded in 2010, but despite being
one of the youngest film schools in Poland, it has already had
considerable success. In 2013, a short fiction Olena by Elżbieta
Benkowska was featured in the main competition at the Cannes
Film Festival. As to documentaries, the most successful so far
was Seven Men at Different Ages directed by Sławomir Witek
(2013). The documentary had many festival screenings, including
DocAviv Festival in Tel Aviv, Doc en Courts in France, Aljazeera
International Documentary Film Festival in Qatar, Sao Paulo
International Short Film Festival in Brazil, and Cinema Vérité IDFF
in Iran.
www.gsf.pl
Classics of a Polish documentary filmmakers according
to “Polish School of Documentary” – DVD series published
by NINA, National Audiovisual Institute:
Jacek Bławut
Maciej J. Drygas
Krystyna Gryczełowska
Danuta Halladin
Irena Kamieńska
Kazimierz Karabasz
Krzysztof Kieślowski
Andrzej Munk
Marcin Koszałka
Marcel Łoziński
Paweł Łoziński
Marek Piwowski
Władysław Ślesicki
Andrzej Titkow
Wojciech Wiszniewski
Maria Zmarz‑Koczanowicz
The hottest names of emerging Polish documentary filmmakers
you can find in this catalogue.
Sources:
Film Commission Poland „Production Guide”, 2015 (point 1‑8)
“Focus on Poland”, Katarzyna Wilk, Weronika E. Czołnowska, 2015
(point 9)
NOTES
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Krakow Film Foundation / Krakow Film Festival
Basztowa 15/8a
31-143 Krakow, Poland
www.kff.com.pl
www.krakowfilmfestival.pl
[email protected]
Katarzyna Wilk
[email protected]
Polish Film Instiutute
Krakowskie Przedmieście 21/23
00-071 Warsaw, Poland
www.pisf.pl
Kinga Gałuszka
[email protected]
Marta Sikorska
[email protected]
Władysław Ślesicki Film Foundation / Doc Lab Poland
Inspektowa 9
02-711 Warsaw, Poland
www.fundfilm.pl
www.doclab.pl
info@fundfilm
[email protected]
Katarzyna Ślesicka
[email protected]
Adam Ślesicki
[email protected]
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