Guests

2016 Guests

Zbigniew Domagalski producer

Film producer. Co-founder, co-owner and Head of the Board of Studio Filmowe Kalejdoskop, founded in 1988. Graduated from the Management Faculty and the Journalism Faculty of the University of Warsaw. Lectures at the National School of Film, Television and Theatre in Łódź.
Zbigniew Domagalski produced a number of feature and documentary films. His most important productions were Stanisław Mucha’s ‘Hope’, co-produced with Cologne’s Pandora Film; Kinga Dębska’s ‘Hel’, co-produced with In Film Prague, Filip Bajon’s ’War of Love’ (Śluby panieńskie) which was seen by over a million viewers in the cinema. His last documentaries released in cinemas were Karolina Bielawska’s ‘Call me Marianna’ and Dębska’s and Konwicka’s ‘The Actress’. Zbigniew Domagalski is the producer of ‘These Daughters of…

Sławomir Idziak director

Born 25 January 1945) is a Polish cinematographer and director who has worked on over forty Polish and foreign films.
Idziak was born in Katowice, Poland. He has made fourteen films with Krzysztof Zanussi, including Kontrakt (The Contract), The Constant Factor and A Year of the Quiet Sun. He worked on all the early films of Krzysztof Kieślowski, including his television, feature film and foreign debuts, additionally, the two collaborated on A Short Film About Killing, The Double Life of Véronique and Three Colors: Blue.
He has made films with such directors as Ridley Scott, John Sayles, Michael Winterbottom and John Duigan, and has also written and directed two films himself. He worked on Winterbottom's film I Want…

Sam Akina director/writer

Sam Akina is an award winning writer and director of numerous international commercials, music videos and feature films. He is co-founder of Attackships On Fire, a creative agency based out of Seattle, WA. His debut feature film Bullets, Blood & a Fistful of Ca$h was released worldwide in 2006. His work in Polish cinema began in 2011 as co-writer of Listy do M. for TVN and director Mitja Okorn. Recently, he reunited with Okorn and co-write Planeta

Monika Majorek director/writer

Born in 1991. Before she came to the movie industry, she studied Journalism and Social Communication, specialization: TV & Radio. She study film Directing at Warsaw Film School. She worked at several film productions, e.g. as a second assistant director in a TV series „Przypadki Cezarego P.“ For her first short film INKA, she was nominated at many film festivals as Palm Springs ShortFest 2015 or T-Mobile New Horizons 2015 and was selected to Cannes Short Film Corner 2015 where the movie was honored with a Coup de Coeur Distinction

Milosz Sakowski director

Born in Gdynia. He studied journalism. For five years he worked as a reporter for Polish news channel TVN24. Meanwhile, he created short narratives and documentaries. He left television to study at Gdynia Film School. There he created his short documentary UNBREAKABLES and films: UPLOAD and GRANDMA'S DAY.

Marta Nieradkiewicz actress

Marta Nieradkiewicz - born in 1983. Graduated from Film School in Lodz. For her role in "Floating Skyscrapers" was awarded Best Supporting Actress at the 2013 Gdynia Film Festival. She performed Polish Theatre in Bydgoszcz (2008-2012) and the Dramatic Theatre in Opole (2012-2013). Since 2013 she is an actress National Stary Theatre in Cracow. Nieradkiewicz is known for her role in the Polish TV production of „Barwy szczescia”. In 2014 she appeared in the music video for the song David Podsiadło "No".

Kinga Dębska director/screenwriter

Graduated from FAMU in Prague and culture studies at the Department of Oriental Studies at the University of Warsaw. Debuted with a series of short docs, including ‘I love Christ’ (2001), ‘Józek and his Children’ (2007), ‘Male Radosti’ (2007), ‘Six Octave’ (2008) and work for television (‘M jak miłość’, Barwy szczęścia’, ‘Singielka’). Her feature debut, ‘Hel’ (2009), met with acclaim at the Koszalin ‘Młodzi i Film’ Festival. In 2015 her second feature premiered: ‘These Daughters of Mine’ were called a revelation at the Gdynia Film Festival, receiving the audience and the press awards. The film went to triumph at the Polish Film Awards - the Eagles 2016, where Dębska received the audience award and the award for best screenplay. "These…

Jules Jones writer/producer

Jules Jones graduated with Honors from Wesleyan University in 2003. She is an award winning writer/producer and co-founder of Attackships On Fire, a creative agency based out of Seattle, WA. She has produced numerous commercials, music videos and feature films around the world. Jules is a former All Star Banked Track Roller Derby skater and she is the bassist, keyboardist and co-vocalist of the dreampop band Ephrata. She recently co-wrote the romantic comedy Planet Single (Planeta Singli) for Gigant Films, directed by Mitja Okorn. She is currently co-writing an

Joanna Polak director/animator

She is a director of more than 100 animated films of which more than 25 realized with and for children. Born in Lublin (POLAND). Studies at the Department of Multimedia Communication at the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznan. In 2003 defended her MA diploma – specialized in animated film direction. In 2011 received her PhD of fine arts (film animation) in MCSU in Lublin. She is a lecturer of the animated film on Maria Curie-Sklodowska University in Lublin and Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology in Warsaw.
The animations, video installations, photographs, sculptures and painting they have been presented at more than 500 presentations at exhibitions and festivals (Europe, Australia, South Africa, USA, South America, Asia) and TV channels…

Filip Hillesland writer/director

Half-Polish and half-Norwegian, but was born in Warsaw. He is now preparing his diploma film at Warsaw Film School. His first year film TROPICAL ISLAND has been shown on several film festivals e.g. it was nominated in the “Young Cinema” section at the 40th Film Festival in Gdynia. Filip has also honed his skills on several Polish feature productions as Second AD. He believes that every story has it’s own needs therefore he explores different genres. His next step are mockumentaries and found-footage films.

Dawid Ogrodnik actor

Dawid Ogrodnik, born in 1986. In 2011 graduated from Cracow Actors School. At Gdynia Film Festival awarded Best Supporting Actor award for his role in YOU ARE GOD (2012) and in THE WORD (2014). For his role in LIFE FEELS GOOD in 2013 at the Gdynia Film Festival was awarded Elle's Cristal Star and in 2014 at the Seattle International Film Festival was awarded Golden Space Needle Award for Best Actor.

Alek Pietrzak director

Alek Pietrzak – born in Płock – 1992 – He graduated from Music School on piano, and Warsaw Film School in a field of Directing. His diploma movie Strong Coffee is not that bad has won many awars on various festivals in Poland and abroad. Alek gained his experience on the sets like Obywatel J.Stuhr, Bridge of Spies S.Spielberg, Planet Single M.Okorn, True Crimes A.Avranas, as an 1st AD, 2nd Unit Director or AD. Now he is also studying at the University of Warsaw on the Artes Liberales department.

Agnieszka Zulewska actress

Agnieszka Zulewska was born in 1987 in Ozimek, Poland. At the age of 23 she graduated from PWSFTviT, a famous film school in Łódź. Agnieszka started her career playing in films and tv series. She gained recognition thanks to her unforgettable roles in such films as Chemo (2015, dir. Bartosz Prokopowicz) and Demon (2015, dir. Marcin Wrona). For the role of Lena in Chemo, Agnieszka received the Zbyszek Cybulski Award for the most promising young actress in polish cinema.

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