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GFS’ students and PFW’s graduates – people who we teach and those who took their first film steps at workshops. Who are they? Which movies do they make? In what projects they participate?
Ela Benkowska was born on the same day as Roman Polański, Filip Jacobson organizes the World’s Worst Films Festival. They write, edit, organize, film, they act in many fields.
Meet people who create the Gdynia Film School with us.
Marcin Niemkiewicz’s “love_proxy”, Aleksandra Szczepaniak’s “Attraction”, and Diana Szczotka’s “Haven” are among the films presented in the September edition of the NY New Filmmakers Plus Program, to take place between September 1st -30th. The program, organized by the Anthology Film Archives in New York features the films by young filmmakers from China, Iran, Korea, Poland, UK, and USA.
Marcin Niemkiewicz’s “love_proxy” has been awarded with the Best Extended Short Film Prize in the San Francisco Science Fiction Short & TV Awards Competition. The live screening event will take place in San Francisco on September 15th.
Kamil Czudej’s “Nothing Serious” got Grand Prix and the Youth Jury Prize of the 17th Solanin Film Festival held in Nowa Sól, Poland, between August 20th – 24th. The Jury awarded the film for: “a good, true story, perfect acting, and deep emotions expressed in extraordinary language. The astute title suggests serious topic, and realization was made in a spirit of the best traditions of the Polish Film School”.