Anna Dymna – awarded with the Kazimierz Kutz Award / Katowice 2021 / photo Przemyslaw Jendroska
The first person to be granted the Kazimierz Kutz Award, founded by the city of Katowice in cooperation with the University of Silesia and the Silesian Theater, is Anna Dymna - an outstanding film and theater actress, founder of the "Mimo Wszystko" Foundation, which works with people with intellectual disabilities.
In the intention of the founders, the award in the name of the eminent Silesian director is to be regularly awarded to a selected artist whose outstanding artistic achievements contribute to building democratic and tolerant society. The award will promote artists who combine artistic activity with social involvement, which is an attitude close to the one that patron of the Award had.
The award ceremony took place on the Large Stage of the Silesian Theater on Tuesday, February 16 at 19.00, on the birthday of Kazimierz Kutz. The gala was followed by one of the most awarded performances of Teatr Śląski, namely "The Fifth Side of the World" based on the prose of Kazimierz Kutz.
Do you dream of a career as a director, or maybe you just want to make an advertising film, music video or a socially engaged film? The Papaya Young Directors competition is a unique initiative aimed at everyone aged between 20-35, which gives you a chance and budget for making your film! You can submit your ideas by March 14, 2021 at www.papayayoungdirectors.com
The Papaya Young Directors collects original ideas in response to briefs (topics of several sentences) of international brands, foundations or artists. The finalist gets PLN 11,000 for the production of his film or music video!
What happens next? The creators of the final productions compete for the Grand Prix of PLN 40,000, as well as a package of other prizes.
The latest edition of the competition is supported by brands from various fields by presenting open and multidimensional briefs. This year, the competition is supported by: Audioteka, BMW Polska, DPD, Durex, Facebook, IKEA, Kayax, Link4, McDonald's, Multikino, Samsung Electronics Polska and Tyskie. T
he Music Stories category is for the second time under the patronage of the Kayax label. This time, the participants will be able to make a music video for Kayah, Krzysztof Zalewski, Julia Wieniawa, Barbara Wrońska, Bloo Crane band and the duo: Karaś / Rogucki.
Each participant has a chance to make a film on social issues. Along with Facebook, the Vertical Stories category is developing, under which you can make films for three unusual foundations: Camera Femina, Kosmos dla Girls and Kuchinate African Refugee Women's Collective. The institutions that contribute to the debuting subcategory Women's Stories work for women in various ways. Importantly - anyone can apply in this category: regardless of gender!
In the 8th edition of the competition, the organizers also focus on searching for a variety of talents - this year, among others, the best production, the best photos or the best creative concept. The premiere of the films along with the gala ceremony is planned for June 2021.
Kieślowski Film School of the University of Silesia in Katowice is an educational partner of the Papaya Young Directors competition.
18. Węgiel Film Festival will be held on May 13-16, 2021. The Festival is as always prepared by the second-year students of the Film Production at the Kieślowski Film School. Among the first revealed program attractions of this year's edition are the workshops: “The mysterious role of a sales agent in the film - Who are they? Where to find them? How to start cooperation?”. The workshop will be conducted by Lidia Damatto Moreira, who works as a sales agent and a purchasing and festival manager at FiGa Films. Over the years, she has worked at festivals such as Ambulante California, and the Hollywood Brazilian Film Festival. Shee is the creator and director of Cinema Novo - New Cinema, a Brazilian cinema screening taking place in New York.
Another guest at the festival will be Anna Kot from Aurum Film - a specialist in PR and promotion of short and feature films, who worked on the promotion of such films as "Corpus Christi" dir. Jan Komasa, "Coach's Daughter", dir. Łukasz Grzegorzek or one of the newest Netflix productions "All my friends are dead", dir. Jan Belcel. Anna Kot will share with festival participants her experience in developing a film promotion strategy.
In addition, as part of the Festival, the workshop "Dramaturgy of light in film" conducted by the director and cinematographer - Marcin Koszałka, will take place. The workshop will be carried out on 3-4 cameras and the images will be streamed in real time for the event participants.
We would like to invite you to the 4. edition of the Science Premiere Stage: Scientific Talk Show - a series organized by the University of Silesia in Katowice. The series promotes interesting, inspiring and award-winning achievements of people associated with our University. This time we will meet Grzegorz Paprzycki, a graduate of directing at Kieślowski Film School, whose film "My Country So Beautiful" has a chance to compete for an Oscar.
The meeting will be held online on February 11, 2021 at 18.00. The broadcast will be available on the YouTube channel of the University of Silesia (link) and on Facebook of the University of Silesia in Katowice (link). "My Country So Beautiful" is a documentary film showing Poland as a place where nationalism emerged from the underground and became a real threat. Paprzycki's work touched critics, received many awards and was included in the so-called long list of candidates for the Academy Award. The director draws attention both to the offensive of the far-right movements, which have become part of the mainstream of Polish politics in the last few years, and to people standing on the left and right sides of the worldview and political discourse, who are determined to defend their principles and values. They are divided by one thing: their attitude to national ideology.
After the meeting we will be able to participate in a conversation with Grzegorz Paprzycki on the ZOOM platform (link).
Previous meetings of the Scientific Premiere Scene are available on the YouTube channel of the University of Silesia (link).
“Freedom of research” is a competition in which employees of the University of Silesia in Katowice can obtain financing for research in each scientific discipline, as well as for proofreading, translation, research visits and conferences. The amount granted this year to the researchers of the University is over 1 million złoty.
