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.

  • ”Señorita” in Competition of the Seattle Sisters Cities Short Film Festival

  • ”Señorita” – a short etude by Sebastian Szewczykowski – was presented in competition of the Seattle Sisters Cities Short Film Festival to take place on May 4th. Founded in 1956 by the US President Dwight D. Eisnehower the Sisters Cities International network includes, among others, Nantes in France, Gdynia in Poland, Christchurch in New Zealand, Bergen in Norway, Mombasa in Kenya, Be’er Sheva in Izrael, Sihanoukville in Cambodia, Tashkent in Uzbekistan, and Kaohsiung in Taiwan.

  • ”InstaLove” to Open 12th EU Short Film Festival in Ottawa!

  • Marcin Niemkiewicz’s ”InstaLove” will open the forthcoming 12th edition of the Ottawa EU Short Film Festival to take place between May 2nd-3rd. The twenty three festival short films will be later shown across Canada, including Montreal in late May.

  • “Fear” in the 65th Krakow Film Festival’s Polish Film Competition!

  • Robert Zawadzki’s “Fear” will have its world premiere in the Polish Film Competition of the Krakow Film Festival, which takes place between May 25th – June 1st. The film will be shown as one of ten short fiction films, among the selection of feature and short documentaries and animations.

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