“SOMETIMES I DREAM I’M FLYING” IN THE COMPETITION AT SLAMDANCE FESTIVAL
The film by Aneta Popiel-Machnicka “Sometimes I dream that I’m flying” will be shown in the competition section at Slamdance Festival. It is the first Polish documentary qualified for Slamdance.
For the first time, the selection committee of the Slamdance Festival has invited a Polish film to take part in the Documentary Programme. The screening in the competition section of Slamdance will be the American premiere of “Sometimes I dream I’m flying” by Aneta Popiel-Machnicka. A total of eight films will compete for the awards in the documentary programme. It is worth adding that “Sometimes I dream I’m flying” is the only European film in this group.
The main protagonist of “Sometimes I dream I’m flying,” Weronika, is a talented and very ambitious ballet dancer. We watch her career and ballet education unfold, following her ups and downs. It is a documentary treatise on beauty and its fragility. In the sophisticated image we get what is most important in this film - emotions and message.
Slamdance Film Festival is one of largest independent film festivals on the world. It is held in Park City, Utah, since 1995. The first edition of the festival was organised by a group of subversive filmmakers, whose films had not been accepted by the Sundance festival. They felt the need to show their films, so they organised a festival with the motto “from filmmakers for filmmakers.” During twenty years of its history, the festival opened the road to fame for such directors as Christopher Nolan, Marc Forster, Jared Hess, Oren Peli, Benh Zeitlin, Seth Gordon, Lynn Sheltona or Lena Dunham. The brand new edition of the festival, the 20th one, takes place from 17th to 23rd January 2014.
More information can be found at Slamdance website.