We invite first-year students to participate in the Virtual Adaptation Day, which will take place on October 7, 2020 at 8.00 on the fanpage of the Student Council of the University of Silesia.

The meeting will be chaired by representatives of the student council of the Kieślowski Film School, who will provide the most important information about the faculty and explain its specificity. They will talk with the most important people at the faculty - Dean dr hab. prof. UŚ Krystyna Doktorowicz, Coordinator for Student Activity Dr. Anna Huth and Coordinator for Accessibility Dr. Adrian Robak. Representatives of departmental authorities will tell more about how to navigate the unit, where to deal with the most important matters and what opportunities await new students, as well as provide details of distance learning. The second part of the Faculty's Virtual Adaptation Day will be a virtual tour of the faculty, during which the most important and interesting places at the Kieślowski Film School will be shown.

During the entire meeting, participants will be able to ask questions in the comments below the broadcast.

We also encourage you to take part in the Virtual Adaptation Day of the University of Silesia, which will take place on October 5, 2020 at 10.00 at the official fanpage of the University of Silesia, as well as in trainings that will make it easier for new students to navigate the university:

• "CINiBA" – academic library and information centre" - October 2, 2020, 8.00,
• "Security Policy" - 2 October 2020, at 12.00,
• "Remote education" - 5/10/2020, 8.00,
• "Coronavirus" - October 8, 2020, at 12.30,
• "BHP – safety rules at the university" - October 9, 2020, at 12.30.

02 October 2020

We are pleased to announce that we have obtained an additional source of funding and we can invite students from Poland and EU countries to study Creative management in new media without semester fees. Recruitment starts on September 28, 2020 and lasts until October 16, 2020.

Creative management in new media course is a proposal for people who already have a bachelor's or master's degree (Master of Science) and want to strengthen their competences in the area of communication in social media, as well as broaden, organize and consolidate knowledge about the new tools and techniques use of social media. Classes will be conducted entirely in English.

Time schedule and portfolio requirements:

1. 28^th September 2020 – beginning of the application process
   https://us.edu.pl/kandydat/en/rekrutacja-na-rok-akademicki-2020-2021/ 
   https://irk.us.edu.pl/irk/application/program?id=908
2. 16^th October 2020 – deadline for:
   • applying in the application system of University of Silesia in Katowice (including a certificate of a Master or a Bachelor degree in English)
   • sending a portfolio proving the experience in creative industry, cultural institutions, audiovisual sector - link to social media (YT, Instagram, Vimeo etc.) or pdf file (with max. 30 pages) to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
3. 20-21^th October 2020 - qualification interview in English on Skype verifying knowledge about the contemporary creative industry, cultural institutions, economics of the audiovisual sector and verifying the predisposition to work in the audiovisual industry (the exact term of the interview will be send to the candidate 3 days before)

01 October 2020

"Draugen", directed by our lecturer, Dagmara Drzazga, won the International Documentary Film Competition at the 12. Unruly Unbreakable Cursed International Film Festival in Gdynia, receiving the main prize of Witold Pilecki.

The jury awarded the prize to Dagmara Drzazga for an extremely poetic and cinematic depiction of individual fates woven into a great story and leaving us feeling that love does not die with death. The protagonist of the document is Wojciech Bogadoł, who was incorporated into the Wehrmacht and sent to Norway.

Prize of Witold Pilecki is every year awarded to "the best film about freedom". This year, 24 films from Poland and the USA, Chile, Finland, France, Italy, Hungary, the Czech Republic and Ukraine competed in this competition category.

"Draugen" was produced by TVP Katowice.

28 September 2020

We would like to invite our Film Production students to sign up for online classes with Angus Finney, lecturer, among others at London Film School, University of Exeter and visiting professor at Cambridge University.

Dr Finney will conduct classes in film production management on October 12-16, 2020 via the MS Teams platform.

Angus Finney is an international expert, executive producer, lecturer and author of many books, incl. The State of European Cinema, The International Film Business or The Egos Have Landed: The Rise and Fall of Palace Pictures.

Registration by e-mail at Dr. Anna Huth, at the e-mail address This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

24 September 2020