On Saturday, 24.03, the graduates' meeting took place. The event was initiated by the Student Council and graduates.
The program included a visit to the new headquarters of the Faculty, a commemorative photograph, screenings of new and archival school short films, and a meeting with a less formal character in the old Bytkowska lodging.
The Febiofest International Film Festival was held for the 25th time. During this edition, the jury and the audience watched over 100 films divided in 8 sections. Two films from Katowice Film School entitled "Let me in" by Dominika Gnatek and Dust by Jakub Radeja were qualified for the competition The film of Jakub Radej was awarded with the best short film award in the In the Heart of Europe competition.
More information and the list of the awarded films:
http://febiofest.sk/en/home-2/
https://www.facebook.com/Febiofest.sk/
Throughout the month beginning from March 14 till April 10, 2018, at the Upper Silesian Museum in Bytom, the new event „Ślōnski szwōng” is held to familiarize people with the culture and tradition of the region, both on the ethnographic, visual and musical level.
As part of the event, the meeting "Our Silesian Hollywood" was held in which the short films created at the Faculty were presented. Presented were: Badylok by Karolina Kłapkowska, Dregs by Kordian Kądziela, Dust by Jakub Radeja and The Frog King by Arek Biedrzycki. The films have been deliberately chosen to show different ways of telling stories, different perspectives on cinema and imaging. After each screening, discussions were conducted by Marek Ryś along with a special guest, Dr. Małgorzata Rygielska.
More information:
http://muzeum.bytom.pl/
https://www.facebook.com/MuzeumGornoslaskie/
It was a very successful weekend for productions of the Radio and Television Faculty.
During The Cambridge International Student Film Festival, the prize for cinematography for the film I Know, dir. Piotr Nalazek was awarded to Beata Rakoczy, and in Jelenia Góra at the closing gala of the 21st ZOOM IFF - ZBLIZENIA the award of the International Visegrad Fund was granted to Damian Kocur for the film Nothing new under the sun.
At the ZOOM IFF - ZBLIZENIA, nominations for the Jan Machulski Polish Independent Cinema award were given to:
More information about the festivals:
https://www.watersprite.org.uk/
http://www.zoomfestival.pl/
The 25. Prowincjonalia Festival took place in Września.
Prowincjonalia has the character of a competition for the best Polish feature, television films and documentaries on the rural and small-town subject, as well as original and artistic cinema, in which the world of simple, universal values, subtlety and aesthetics of the narrative dominates. The Festival is often also called the festival oft he peripheral cinema and outsiders.
The following short films have qualified for the competition:
Dust, dir. Jakub Radej
It‘s really awesome dir. Katarzyna Warzecha
Nothing new under the sun, dir. Damian Kocur
More information:
http://prowincjonalia.com.pl/
https://www.facebook.com/prowincjonalia/