JAKUB STOŻEK'S „OUT OF REACH” AWARDED AT SUNDANCE!

Awards for short films at Sundance Film Festival had been handed out. Our sole reprezentant in the competition - „Out of reach” directed by Jakub Stożek – was given a special mention.

Although Sundance Film Festival is scheduled to last till Sunday, it was already yesterday evening when awarded authors of short films could celebrate their successes. Jury chaired by the director Barry Jenkins was considered eighty titles shown in the competition in the end awarding one main prize and mentioning five titles among which Jakub Stożek’s „Out of reach”. Main prize went to Australian „Deeper Than Yesterday” directed by Ariel Kleiman. 

The successful career of „Out of reach” begun at 50th Krakow Film Fest­ival in Poland where film had been premiered and Stożek received the Golden Dragon Award for the Dir­ector of the Best Film in the Inter­na­tional Short Film Com­pet­i­tion. What might have become important was the presence of Todd Luoto among the com­pet­i­tion jury mem­bers. For the past four years Luoto has been working for Sund­ance Film Fest­ival as a shorts pro­gram­mer. Inform­ally, he admit­ted that thanks to his attend­ence at Krakow Film Fest­ival and getting to know Stożek’s film he decided to include „Out of reach” in the Sund­ance Film Fest­ival pro­gramme.
  Sundance Film Festival is being held between 20th and 30th January in Salt Lake City in Utah. The fest­ival is one of the most prominent film events organized worldwide. Sup­por­ted by the Sund­ance Insti­tute –the non-​profit organ­iz­a­tion, foun­ded by Robert Red­ford in 1981 –the fest­ival is the gate for the inde­pend­ent films that opens the opportunity of the global career. The aim of the fest­ival is to dis­cover, pro­mote and sup­port the inde­pend­ent and original cinema that presents inter­na­tional poten­tial.   Out of reach is a story about two teen­aged girls who were raised without a mother. Due to a com­plex fam­ily situ­ation sis­ters had to learn to be more respons­ible and inde­pend­ent than oth­ers at their age. Girls’ impress­ively mature decision materializes in an attempt of contacting their mother and by this means rebuilding broken fam­ily rela­tions.  
  Jakub Stożek gradu­ated from the depart­ment of Eng­lish Philo­logy at the Jagi­el­lo­nian Uni­ver­sity in Krakow and from the Depart­ment of Radio and Tele­vi­sion at the Uni­ver­sity of Silesia in Katowice. His dir­ector debut Out of reach was pro­duced by DARK­LIGHT­FILM STU­DIO while its international promotion is supported by Krakow Film Foundation.  
  Full report from the award ceremony can be found here.  
  More information available at: www​.sun​dance​.org www​.dar​klight​.pl
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