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

  • ”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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