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Visiting Professor – documentary film director Piotr Stasik

17.05.2020
21 x Nowy Jork

At the special invitation of our lecturer prof. UŚ dr hab. Marcin Koszałka Piotr Stasik visited our students giving a lecture on Zoom platform on 18.05.2020. The classes were entitled "Visual director, between the documentary and the feature film." The director conducted his lecture based on the movie "21x New York", in which he brings to the screen twenty-one stories of New Yorkers, which form a picture of the society of the twenty-first century.

Piotr Stasik is a Polish director, screenwriter, cinematographer and documentary film editor. His documentaries have been shown and awarded at over 100 festivals around the world. Piotr Stasik is a laureate of Polish Film Award and Eagle. For his film "21 x New York" he was nominated for the European Film Award in the Best Documentary Film category.

Classes were dedicated to directing and cinematography students, but other students were welcomed to participate as observers.