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ADAM BAUMAN HAS WON The award ceremony of the Polish edition of Hartley-Merrill Screenwriting Contest 2009 took place on 31 March in Muranów cinema in Warsaw. The organizer of the Contest is the Andrzej Wajda Master School of Film Directing and the co-organizing partners are: the Polish Film Institute, HBO Polska and the Andrzej Wajda Foundation of Film Education. The Contest is now under the auspices of the Polish Film Institute Director Agnieszka Odorowicz and the Marshal of the Mazovian Voivodeship Adam Struzik. The Main Prize, 20 000 PLN (founded by the Polish Film Institute), of the Polish edition of Hartley-Merrill Screenwriting Contest 2009 went to Adam Bauman for his script 'Potrójna misja [Triple Mission]'.
The Special Prize of the Marshal of the Mazovian Voivodeship of 10 000 PLN went to Tomasz Świerczyński for text 'Sudoku'.
The Special HBO Prize of 5 000 PLN went to Bartek Konopka and Piotr Borkowski – authors of the script 'Lęk wysokości [Fear of Heights]'.
The winning script will take part in the international final of the Contest. Present at the ceremony, Andrzej Wajda, welcoming the guests, underlined that he 'appreciates all the attempts of enlivening the script writing creativity in Poland'. He also emphasized that the school he founded 'cares about script writing, as a good script opens a way for a young director'.
Jacek Fuksiewicz, the Head of PISF plenipotentiary for film production, who announced the Main Prize winner, stated that all scripts that reached the final are interesting and promising texts, but they are all worth a further work, using eg. programmes for scriptwriters at the Polish Film Institute. The Special Prize of the Marshal of the Mazovian Voivodeship was presented by Jerzy Lach, the director of the Department of Culture, Promotion and Tourism of the Marshalship of the Mazovia Voivodeship, who announced, that a regional Mazovian Film Fund will be established to co-finance film productions. He also declared that the Marshalship of the Mazovia Voivodeship will support the Hartley-Merrill contest in the following years. Winners were selected by the Jury which included: Joanna Krauze (script consultant, lecturer), Jan Dworak (film producer), Jacek Fuksiewicz (critic, the Head of PISF plenipotentiary for Film Production), Jerzy Dzięgielewski (HBO representative) i Marcin Wrona (director and scriptwriter, the winner of the Polish edition of Hartley-Merrill Contest in 2007). 130 authors participated at this year's Hartley-Merrill Scriptwriting Contest. 10 texts reached the final: 1. 'W kręgu [In the Circle]' by Agnieszka Kornacka The Main Prize laureate – Adam Bauman – is an actor; he has played in Warsaw theaters: in Teatr Polski, Teatr Nowy and Teatr na Woli. He is an author of many radio plays and scripts for TV series. The story told in 'Potrójna misja' is set in two time lines. It describes a diplomatic-spy game between the Vatican and the Soviet Union which takes place in 1923 in the Soviet Union and is about St. Andrew Bobola’s relics which were exposed at the Hygienic Exposition of People's Commissariat of Health in Moscow – as one of many peculiar showpieces. Simultaneously to the events taking place in the twentieth century, Bauman showed events from the XVIIth century from the life of Andrew Bobola. The author of the victorious scenario, while receiving the prize, pointed out that 'this is not a religious film, a political thriller rather, with a love thread; in the background, among other questions, there is the question of the nature of holiness.' ABOUT THE CONTEST The Hartley-Merrill contest is one of the best known contests for scriptwriters. In 1989 Ted Hartley, the RKO Pictures chairman and his wife, Dina Merrill came up with an idea for a scriptwriting contest for the countries of the former Soviet Union. The contest was inaugurated together with the Scriptwriters Association of America and with Robert Redford, Nikita Mikhalkov, and David Puttnam. Later on the originators decided to expand the contest to other countries. At present it is organised in 21 countries, among them are: Poland (since 1992), the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, New Zealand, Cuba, Great Britain, Ireland, Mexico, Argentina, and Peru. The prize is supposed to encourage scriptwriters to write scenarios about universal values that may be of interest to the world’s audiences. Many of the texts which did not win, yet participated, have also been released. One of them was nominated to the Oscar Prize, one won the Sundance Film Festival, other numerous works won laurels at national festival in their countries of origin. Polish scripts achieve great international success in the contest. Many of the texts have been released, among them: ‘Bandyta’ [The Bandit] by Cezary Harasimowicz, ‘Stacja’ [The Station] by Piotr Wereśniak and ‘Komornik’ [The Collector] by Grzegorz Łoszewski. The last one was directed by Feliks Falk and has won the Złote Lwy Prize in Gdynia. Currently, three films based on the winning scripts are in the stage of production: 'Moja krew [My Flesh, My Blood]' by Marcin Wrona (based on the script 'Tamagotchi'), 'Zdjęcie [The Photograph]' by Maciej Adamek and 'Z miłości [Out of Love]' by Anna Jadowska. The main organiser of the Polish edition of the contest is the Andrzej Wajda Master School of Film Directing; its coordinator is Adam Ślesicki. The co-organising partners are: the Polish Film Institute, the Marshalship the Mazovia Voivodeship, of HBO Polska as well as the Andrzej Wajda Foundation of Film Education, and the media patrons are: the Kino monthly, and the Stopklatka.pl service.
(March 2009) |
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