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

Last Wednesday, 23^rd September, the building of the Kieślowski Film School in Katowice received the main prize in the Wienerberger Brick Award 2020 competition, beating over 600 competitors from around the world.

Our building also won in one of the six competition categories - Sharing public spaces.

The awards gala of the international edition of the Wienerberger Brick Award 2020 competition took place in Vienna and was broadcast online.

The competition awards buildings where the ceramics, bricks and roof tiles play the main role.

The building of the Kieślowski Film School in Katowice was designed by architects from the Baas Arquitectura studio, Grupa 5 Architekci and MAŁECCY Biuro projektowe.

24 September 2020

We are pleased to inform you that the building of the Kieślowski Film School (former Radio and Television Faculty) was nominated in a competition organized by DETAIL - one of the most important architectural monthlies in the world. Our headquarters will compete with 13 other projects for the DETAIL Prize 2020.

Voting lasts until October 30, 2020.

Details: https://www.detail.de/micropages/detail-preis-2020/leservoting/

Our headquarters has also been nominated for the international edition of the Brick Award 20. The awards gala will be held on September 23 in Vienna.

The building of the Film School was built on the basis of a design by the Spanish Baas design studio and the Warsaw based architectural studio - Grupa 5 Architekci, the authors of the winning competition from 2011, as well as the Małeccy design studio from Katowice.

16 September 2020

A special event of the New Energy section during the 10th jubilee edition of the Transatlantyk Film Festival will be CHALLENGES, i.e. unique meetings with our graduates. The challenges will be led by Agnieszka Smoczyńska, Marcin Koszałka and Piotr Domalewski, who will talk about the secrets of their work. Only 12 people will be able to participate in each of the meetings.

We invite you to sign up for the Challenges at the following e-mail address: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Challenge Program:

• Agnieszka Smoczyńska - How to fight for your debut?
  October 5th, 4pm online
• Marcin Koszałka - A test of strength between director and cinematographer - an eternal conflict or symbiosis?
  October 6, 18:00 in Katowice
• Piotr Domalewski - How is a director supposed to talk to an actor?
  October 7, 16:30 in Katowice

During the New Energy section, films of our graduates and lecturers: Agnieszka Smoczyńska, Marcin Koszałka, Piotr Domalewski, Jan P. Matuszyński and Maciej Pieprzyca will be presented.

Section program: https://www.transatlantyk.org/sekcja/nowa-energia/

12 September 2020