Documentary short film "Joanna d'Arc", dir. Aleksandra Szamałka will compete for the Award for the Best Short Film during the 19th edition of the Millennium Docs Against Gravity Festival. The Polish premiere of the film produced at the Kieślowski Film School will take place in May 2022.
"Joanna d'Arc" is a short story about Aneta, who manages an erotic massage salon in France. She left Poland to find her way, but nothing is going as she would like it to be. Increasing problems with her partner and growing children push her to decide to take matters into her own hands. Will she manage to go straight and find the peace she has been looking for for so long?
The Millennium Docs Against Gravity Film Festival is the largest film festival in Poland. The 19th edition of the festival will be held on May 13-22, 2022. This year, for the first time, the Short Films Competition will be held at the festival, which will present the most interesting films from around the world with a duration of up to 45 minutes.
PAPAYA YOUNG CREATORS invites you to an online meeting entitled "TREATMENT - how to sell an idea with words and image?". The meeting will be led by Papaya Films director Filip Bartczak and Igor Połaniewicz, cinematographer. The meeting will be held on January 27 at 12:00 ONLINE.
Filip Bartczak – a director and a screenwriter, a photographer and a DJ. A lover of cinema and documentary forms that inspire him to create commercials and music videos. So far, he has been trusted by brands such as: Hennessy, mBank, Grupa Żywiec, Biedronka, Tymbark, and the artists Pezet, Bitamina, Dawid Podsiadło, Kayah, Fisz Emade, O.S.T.R., Otsochodzi.
Igor Połaniewicz - a cinematographer who honed his skills in various film forms. He has been awarded many times in creative competitions. He collaborated with: Huawei, Orange, Spotify, MasterCard, IKEA, Sokoł, Mata, Quebonafide, Szczyl, Pezet, Maria Peszek, and Brodka. Winner of the 5th edition of the Papaya Young Directors competition.
The meeting will be preceded by a presentation of the Papaya Young Creators competition, the 9th edition of which will start on January 31.
Kieślowski Film School is the educational partner of the 9th edition of the Papaya Young Creators competition. The meeting takes place as part of our cooperation.
Aleksandra Terpińska - a graduate of directing at the Radio and Television Faculty (currently Kieślowski Film School) was awarded the POLITYKA 2021 Passport in the Film category.
The award was granted "for a painfully provocative look at the complex Polish reality, for the passion and courage to break genre stereotypes, and for outstanding directing skills".
The nomination for the POLITYKA Passport was for her feature fiction film "Other People" – the best film production of Dorota Masłowska's prose so far.
On January 18, 2022, the POLITYKA Passports were awarded for the 29th time. The awards were given to artists in nine categories: film, theater, literature, visual arts, classical music, popular music, digital culture, remote culture, and creator of culture.
The book "Strike" by the lecturer of the Kieślowski Film School, prof. Rafał Milach won the third place in the Fotopolis plebiscite in the category of photographic publication of 2021.
The photobook "Strike" is a visual trace of the protests that began throughout Poland on October 22, 2020 and lasted in various forms for the next several months. Since 2019, Rafał Milach has been co-creating the Archive of Public Protests, a platform that collects documentation of social activation, grassroots initiatives to oppose political decisions, and violate the principles of democracy and human rights. "Strike" is an excerpt from this collection.
Readers of Fotopolis chose the best products and events from the world of photography for the 17. time.
The graphic uses a photograph by Marek Nowicki from the collections of the Municipal Museum in Tychy
Kieślowski Film School of the University of Silesia begins cooperation with the Municipal Museum in Tychy. Throughout 2022 our students of Cinematography and Photography will participate in a joint photo project "New city. New vision”. The resulting series of photos will be published in the publishing summarizing the project.
The name of the project derives from that moment in the history of the city, when the enthusiasts of building Tychy - architects, town planners, artists and the residents themselves - described their future city, their home, as Nowe Tychy. Although the nomenclature from the 1950s and 1960s did not survive, the idea that in some areas a city is always new is still valid. It absorbs suburban areas. Adapts wastelands. Inserts fillings. Hates emptiness. Every day it is created by the inhabitants who influence its shape with their choices and decisions. They take care of the city and demolish it.
This urban vitality is observed by the participants of the project. Photographing under the supervision of the artist and lecturer Rafał Milach (Kieślowski Film School in Katowice), with the support of Ewelina Lasota (Department of Photography of the Municipal Museum in Tychy), students will focus their attention on what is new and young in the city, which at the same time provokes questions about duration, growth, decay and decline.
They are interested in the relationship of people with the space in which they live. Their individual portraits clash with the repeatability and uniformity of the place of residence. How are young people taking over the city by occupying yards, vacant buildings and shopping centers? What prospects does the city offer to today's 30-year-olds: couples, singles, people from here and foreigners? What is the future of shopkeepers and craftsmen being pushed out by chain stores?
The authors pose questions about what is everyday, but not always named. Is the apartment building a new block? Are guarded estates still a common space? Is a row house a fulfillment of residential ambitions, or maybe the only alternative to multi-apartment construction?
Project participants: Bartosz Gaczyński, Paweł Grabarek, Tomasz Grzymała, Lena Jabłońska, Jakub Kaźmierczak, Maks Plater, Anna Ryń, Jakub Stoszek
