WAJDA SCHOOL SUCCESSES IN KOSZALIN

‘Pogodna’, a film produced at the Andrzej Wajda Film School and directed by Renata Gabryjelska, won the Mały Jantar Award for the best documentary at this year’s film festival in Koszalin. Michał Marczak’s ‘Woman Sought’ received an honorary mention award. The most significant awards in the full-length film competition also went to our graduates.

The jury of the short film competition at the 28th ‘Young and Film’ Koszalin Film Debuts Festival awarded ‘Pogodna’ a documentary by Renata Gabryjelska. The film won the Mały Jantar 2009 Award. 
‘Pogodna’ is a story about a complicated relationship between a mother and an unmarried daughter who still live together in a small flat. Running a dancing group for seniors seems to give their lives a meaning and compensates the lack of men in their lives. Renata Gabryjelska is a graduate of the Documentary Course and of the 'Development Lab' Fiction Course at the Andrzej Wajda Film School. 

A Mention Award went to Michał Marczak for ‘Woman Sought’, a film which was produced within the framework of the ‘First Documentary’ programme run by: the Andrzej Wajda Film School, the Andrzej Munk Studio ‘Young and Film’ - a part of Polish Filmmakers Association, the Polish Film Institute and TVP Kultura.
Marczak’s film is a portrait of people looking for love: a French aristocrat hires a professional matchmaker to help him find a wife in Poland. Meetings with possible candidates show women’s fears, expectations and secret desires. Michał Marczak graduated from the Documentary Course at the Andrzej Wajda Film School.

The most significant awards in the full-length film competition were also won by our graduates: Katarzyna Rosłaniec received the Wielki Jantar [Great Amber] 2009 for the best debut for her ‘Galerianki’. Marcin Wrona, Grażyna Trela and Marek Pruchniewski won the award for the best script for ‘Moja krew [My Flesh, My Blood’. Their script (under the working title ‘Tamagotchi’) won the Polish edition of Hartley-Merrill 2007 Script Contest, organized by the Andrzej Wajda School, and was the third in the international edition of the contest.
Marcin Wrona’s film also won the Journalists’ Award. The Audience Award went to Michał Rogalski for ‘Ostatnia akcja [The Last Action]’. Katarzyna Rosłaniec, Marcin Wrona and Grażyna Trela are graduates of the fiction courses at the Andrzej Wajda School. Michał Rogalski also participated in this year’s edition of EKRAN – an international programme for film professionals - organized by the Andrzej Wajda Film School.

 

(June 2009)