AMERICAN DREAM
POLISH TITLE: AMERYKAŃSKI SEN
REPRESENTED BY KFF
Głucholazy - a small town, which was full of life in the nineties, dies out nowadays. The flood has destroyed local spas and factories. There is high unemployment and lots of citizens left their town. In this place of no opportunities, teenage Szymon decides to achieve his biggest dream. He wants to become a american wrestler.
Will his American dream come true?
- GENRE:
- documentary
- COUNTRY:
- Poland
- RUNNING TIME:
- 26'
- YEAR:
- 2017
- DIRECTING:
- Marek Skrzecz
- SCRIPT:
- Marek Skrzecz
- DOP:
- Kacper Sędzielewski, Damian Kocur, Justyna Musialska
- EDITOR:
- Marcin Piatkowski
- MUSIC:
- Audio Network
- PRODUCTION:
- Studio Munka
Marek Skrzecz »
A director and film editor. The author of the award-winning music videos. His unconventional projects keep balance between the feature film and the document. He participated in many cinematic-educational projects, such as: "World from Dawn till Dusk" and "Art of choice". He collaborated with the foundation GPAS Praga, for which he led film workshops for troublesome youth. Co-author of a fictionalized series " Secrets of Polish origins".
AT FESTIVALS:
- 33rd Warsaw Film Festival, Poland, 2017 (Audience Award) (screening)
- Cellu l'Art Polish Shorts Day 2018, Austria, 2018 (screening)
- VIS Vienna Shorts 2019, Austria, 2019 (screening)
- Motovun Film Festival, Croatia, 2019 (screening)
- GZDOC 2017, China, 2017 (competition)
- 16th Gdansk DocFilm Festival, Poland, 2018 (competition)
- Odense FF, Denmark, 2018 (competition)