Marcin Borchardt

Marcin Borchardt

Journalist, director and screenwriter. Author of short documentaries, advertisements and video clips. Director of television programmes. Expert and tireless promoter of thetwentieth-century avant-garde in music and film.

Director and writer of the documentary ‘Andrzej Wajda watches Ashes and
Diamonds’ [Pomeranian Film Foundation /TVP2, 2008-10],’ Janusz Morgenstern watches See you tomorrow
…’, ‘Jerzy Skolimowski watches Rysopis’ [Pomeranian Film Foundation /TVP2] and thirteen short films series ‘Kuchnia
Mistrzów’ [Pomearanian Film Foundation, 2009-10], in which outstanding film directors [A. Wajda, J.
Hoffmann, K. Zanussi, K. Krauze, R. Gliński, W. Marczewski, R.
Piwowarski, L. Wosiewicz, F. Falk, D. Gajewski, J.J. Kolski, B. Lankosz, A. Jakimowski] talk about
their favourite scenes from Polish films.

Author of short documentary films: ‘The Gdynia Cronicles’ [City of Gdynia, 2010-11] and ‘The Chronicles of Polish Film
Festival’ [Pomeranian Film Foundation, 2006-11]. Director of the performance with distinguished Polish
scientists ‘Bramy jutra’ [TVP2, 2008-9]; a special edition of ‘Wojciech Cejrowski – boso przez świat’, with a traveller Stanisław Szwarc-Bronikowski [TVP2, 2008]; popular video clips of Maciej Maleńczuk ‘Gdzie są
przyjaciele moi’ and Paweł Kukiz ‘Miasto budzi się’ [T1-Teraz, 2007] and
advertisements ‘Wojna i Pokój’ [n / ITI Neovision, 2006],’ Nordea – stwarzamy
możliwości’ [Nordea Bank Poland SA, 2008],’ Touch of Magic – Europa Cinemas
Prize [Capital Park, 2008] and others.

Director,
writer, editor and host of dozens of television programmes about young
culture and non-commercial music, including ‘Outside’ [TVP3],
‘Ulakanakulot’ [TVP3], ’45 minut’ [TVP3], ‘Drgawy’ [TVP1], ‘Fiks’ [TVP
2],’ To tylko komputer ‘[TVP1],’ Rock Front ‘[ TVP1], ‘7 cudów’ [RTL7],
‘Ukraińskie noce’ [TVP 2],’ The Ukrainians’ [TVP2]. ‘366 / 366 ‘[TVP
2],’ ONA, czyli konflikt pokoleń’ [TVP 2], the only rock concert in the
history of the National Festival of Polish Song in Opole ’95 [TVP1] and
several editions of the video clip festival – Yach Film Festival
[TVP1/TVP2].

Journalist, author of hundreds of radio programmes
[e.g. in Radio Elbląg, PR Gdańsk, PR Trójka] and press articles [e.g.
in ‘Dziennik Bałtycki’, ‘Machina’, ‘Antena Krzyku’].

Originator and author
of successfully produced national programme of film education for
children and adolescents ‘Multikino Film Academy’ [Multikino SA, 2007-10].

Lecturer of short feature movie at Gdynia Film School.

  • “Mom Is Going Back” Awarded at the 23rd Uhvati Film Festival in Serbia and Croatia

  • Mikołaj Janik’s “Mom Is Going Back” got two awards at the 23rd Uhvati Film Festival: Grand Prix at the Novi Sad edition, and Second Prize for Documentary Film in Rijeka, Croatia. Organized in the region of Southern Europe (Novi Sad in Serbia, Rijeka in Croatia, and Kotor in Montenegro) in October and November, the festival features fiction and documentary films presenting themes of disability.

  • “Nothing Serious” and “Such a Perfect Day” in Competition of the 18th Amarcort Film Festival in Italy!

  • “Nothing Serious” by Kamil Czudej and “Such a Perfect Day” by Piotr Pluta will be presented in various competitive sections of the forthcoming 18th Amarcort Film Festival in Rimini, Federico Fellini’s birthplace. The festival held between November 25th – 30th, will show “Nothing Serious” in the Student Films category, while “Such a Perfect Day” – in the Titta category dedicated to films on parent-child relationship.

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