Piotr Janiszewski

Piotr Janiszewski

He comes from a small town Lidzbark in Masuria. He graduated from The Halina and Jan Machulskis’s Acting School in Warsaw. He loves good, Polish cinema: Munk, Chmielewski, Chęciński, Bareja, Koterski, Machulski, Pasikowski – and he wishes to go in this direction.

His first films were works involved in problems and issues connected
with his town. He also undertook attempts to create local media. Aero
Hojskole scholarship holder in Denmark. He made there a short film,
which won, among others, an award in a contest to celebrate the 100th
anniversary of Polish Cinema and qualified for the contest OKFA Konin
2010.

Filmography

2006: Parówka Wyborcza
2007: Samobójca na moście , Siedem wg ks. Jana Lidzbarskiego, W pozytywie
2008: Ich Światy, To nie jest kraj dla młodych ludzi, Aerosphere, Wielki Powrót Antosia, Post Parówka Wyborcza
2009: A Dead Heat, Władza
2010: Elemelemenele

  • “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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