Krakow market pitch: Escape to the Silver Globe
A documentary project about what the filmmakers claim to be the greatest, unfulfilled dream of Polish cinema, the 1970s science fiction epic ‘On the Silver Globe’. Docs to Go! pitch presentation
Krakow FF Doc Comp/Nat Comp: Walk With Angels by Tomasz Wysokiński
To call Walk With Angels a tough documentary to make is somewhat of an understatement. During shooting in the townships surrounding Johannesburg, Polish director Tomasz Wysokiński had a shotgun pointed in his face and saw someone murdered in front of him. He tells all to BDE.
Krakow market pitch: Siskin
In Oscar-nominated Zofia Kowalewska’s feature-length doc debut, the filmmaker travels with her 92-year-old grandfather to a remote village in Kazakhstan, where he was exiled during WWII, in search of his first love.
Krakow market pitches: The Big Chief (Docs to Go!)) and White Queen (CEDOC)
Polish producer Ania Gawlita (Kijora Film) has a busy festival with two major pitches in KFF Industry and two films in official selection.
Krakow market pitch: The Plague (CEDOC)
Polish director Monika Kotecka discusses her project The Plague - which draws parallels between the current coronavirus and the 1963 smallpox outbreak in Wroclaw - ahead of its pitch during the CEDOC market.
Krakow market pitches: House of Sand and When the Harmattan Blows
Marta Duzbabel’s With A Passion Production, founded in 2019, presents two new documentary projects in development, both strong human interest stories, at KFF Docs to Start.
Krakow FF Doc Comp: Altered States of Consciousness
In Altered States of Consciousness, Polish director Piotr Stasik places kids with autism and Asperger’s syndrome centre stage, and offers a unique glimpse into their, at times, captivating and unconventional minds.
Krakow market pitch: AKS ZŁY – Born to be Bad?
As this is Poland, then there had to be a project about the beautiful game - but producer Maciej Ostatek is looking to make an altogether different kind of football documentary.
Krakow market pitch: Boylesque (CEDOC)
Bogna Kowalczyk’s Boylesque tells of 80-year old drag queen Lula who, after the suicide of his best friend, picks himself up, dusts himself down and goes in search of new love.
