POLISH FILMS NOMINATED FOR THE SILVER EYE AWARDS
This year, forty films produced or co-produced in Poland will participate in the East Silver Market. Seven of them were nominated for Silver Eye awards for the best creative documentaries of the market.
East Silver Market is a film market the aim of which is promotion and distribution of documentary films from 27 countries of Central and Eastern Europe, including Poland. This year it will be the eleventh time when it accompanies the International Documentary Film Festival in Jihlava. Since 2009, the Silver Eye awards are given at the East Silver Market - the awards for the best documentary films participating in the market. What makes Silver Eye different from many other film awards is the fact that this award is given to the film's producer, not the director. The award is intended to support the promotion and distribution of the film abroad.
The films participating in the market are divided into three categories: short, middle-length and feature-length. In each category, about 10 films are nominated for the award. The winners, in addition to the statuette, are given 1500 euro and a year of presenting the film at East Silver Caravan, which equals the promotion of the award-winning films at over 100 of the most important film festivals on the world.
This year, seven films with Polish producer or co-producer were nominated for the Silver Eye award:
a) in the short film category (up to 30 minutes):
- "Super Unit," dir. Teresa Czepiec, produced by Wajda Studio
- "A Visit," dir. Matej Bobrik, produced by SFP - Munk Studio
- "Where I can't be found," dir. Arjun Talwar, produced by Polish National Film School in Lodz, Arjun Talwar (India)
b) in the medium-length film category (from 30 to 60 minutes):
- "Fish'r'us," dir. Maciej Głowiński, produced by Film and Television Academy in Warsaw
c) in the category of feature-length films (above 60 minutes):
- “Deep love," dir. Jan P. Matuszyński, produced by Cor Leonis Production, Otter Films, HBO Europe
- "Aleppo. Notes from the Dark," dir. Wojciech Szumowski, Michał Przedlacki, produced by Studio Szumowski, TVN S.A.
- "Gottland," dir. Viera Čákanyová, Petr Hátle, Lukáš Kokeš, Klára Tasovská, Rozálie Kohoutová, produced by Nutprodukce (the Czech Republic), Czech Television (the Czech Republic), Bfilm, s.r.o. (Slovakia), Centrala (Poland), FAMU - Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (the Czech Republic)
Three of the aforementioned films ("Super Unit," "A Visit" and "Deep love") are represented by Krakow Film Foundation. Apart from the nominated films, over 30 other Polish films will participate in the East Silver Market, sixteen of which are represented by Krakow Film Foundation within the frames of Polish Docs programme.
Previously, Polish films were equally well-represented at the East Silver Market, and what is more, many got the Silver Eye awards. In 2009 "Six Weeks" by Marcin Janos Krawczyk won in the short film category, and "Rabbit a la Berlin" by Bartosz Konopka - in the medium-length category. Special mention in the feature-length category went to the film "Side Track" by Anna Kazejak. One year later, the best short film award went to "That's life..." by Daniel Zieliński, and the best feature-length film award - to "At the edge of Russia" by Michał Marczak. Special mentions went to the films The work of machines" by Michał and Maciej Mądracki and Gilles Lepore and "Plain landscape with a cradle" by Arkadiusz Biedrzycki. In 2012, the winners of the Silver Eye award included "Cut-Paste" by Rafał Samusik in the short documentary category, and "We will be happy one day" by Paweł Wysoczański in medium-length category. Last year, the best short film of the East Silver Market was the Polish-Cuban co-production "Previous scenes" by Aleksandra Maciuszek, and the best medium-length film - "Joanna" by Aneta Kopacz. Special mention went to "Art of disappearing" by Bartek Konopka and Piotr Rosołowski.
You can find the full list of the films nominated for the Silver Eye award on the East Silver's website.