SILENCE II

CISZA II

Film presents different interpretations of „silence” created by students of II Documentary Course conducted by Andrzej Wajda Master School of Film Directing.

FILM REPRESENTED BY THE KRAKOW FILM FOUNDATION

  • Genre: Dokumentalny
  • Country: pl
  • Running time: 18
  • Year: 2005

Director: Anna Skorupa, Jaen Baptiste Dalannoy, Magdalena Kowalczyk, Marcin Janos Krawczyk, Marcin Sauter, Thierry Paladino

Script: Marcin Sauter, Thierry Paladino, Magdalena Kowalczyk, Marcin Janos Krawczyk, Jaen Baptiste Dalannoy, Anna Skorupa

DOP: Piotr Stasik, Tomasz Szczepański, Jakub Kowalczyk, Jakub Kijowski

Editing: Anna Dymek, Agnieszka Glińska, Sławomir Karasek

Production company: Mistrzowska Szkoła Reżyserii Filmowej Andrzeja Wajdy (obecnie: Wajda Studio)

About the directors:

Anna Skorupa

Anna Skorupa

Born in 1973 in Warsaw. She gradated from Warsaw Uniwersity. She used to work as an actress. graduated from the Documentary Course at the Andrzej Wajda Master School of Film Directing. She  took part in the polish – german project REFLECTION.

Jaen Baptiste Dalannoy




Graduated from the II Documentary Course at the Andrzej Wajda Master School of Film Directing

Magdalena Kowalczyk

Magdalena Kowalczyk

Was born in 1983 r. in Warsaw. She graduated from documentary course in the Andrzej Wajda Master School of Film Directing. Her film “Reflection” was made during the „Film Kindergarden” Course in Andrzej Wajda Master School of Film Directing. The film was awarded on the XII IFF "ETIUDA&ANIMA" 2005. She’s a one of director’s in “Silence II” – a set of etudes made by students of the Andrzej Wajda Master School of Film Directing and a co-director in the Polish-German project “Reflection” – a set of shorts made as a result of cooperation of the Andrzej Wajda Master School of Film Directing and the International Filmschul Koln in 2006. Her last short documentary is called “By the river” (2006)

Marcin Janos Krawczyk

Marcin Janos Krawczyk

Marcin Janos Krawczyk. Born on 26 October 1978. Director, Writer, Producer. Member of the Polish Filmmakers Association. Graduate of the Andrzej Wajda Master School of Film Directing and the Academy of Dramatic Arts in Wroclaw. As a director, he made his debut with the film "Rendez-vous", nominated for and winning numerous awards at dozens of festivals around the world, including Hot Docs 2007 Silverdocs 2007, Cinema du Reel 2007, and the Short Film Competition at the 57th Berlinale International Film Festival 2007. Another of his films, "Six Weeks", premièred at the IDFA festival in Amsterdam in 2009, where it won the main prize. In the same year, it also won the Silver Eye and was selected for over forty festivals. As a producer he debuted with the film "Mother 24/7" made for Polish Television. Currently at the festiwal "The Land of the Homeless".  

Marcin Sauter

Marcin Sauter

Photographer, cinematographer and film director. Born in 1971 in Bydgoszcz. A member of the Association of Polish Art Photographers, he has had several dozen individual exhibitions of photography. He teaches at the Andrzej Wajda Master School of Film Directing. He established the foundation The Bydgoszcz Newsreel. His adventure with the cinema started in 1997 when he cooperated with Maciej Cuske on the feature film "What Do You Think About It, Gałuszko?". Then, he continued with such documentaries as "The Travelling Cinema" (2005), "North From Calabria" (2009) and "Hakawati" (2011).

Thierry Paladino

Thierry Paladino






Was born 24 July 1981 in Nice, France. He graduated from the School of Fine Arts, Marseille and Aix-en-Provence and also the Documentary Course at the Andrzej Wajda Master School of Film Directing. With others graduates from the Andrzej Wajda Master School of Film Directing – Maciej Cuske, Marcin Sauter and Piotr Stasik – he created a film group called “PALADINO”.






At festivals:

GZDOC, Guaghzou, China, 2006 (screening)

Weinerei, projekt Towarzystwa Wspierającego Sztukę i Kulturę w Europie, Norymberga, 2007 (screening)

Hong Kong International Film Festival, China, 2007 (screening)

Encounters Short Film Festival in Bristol, UK, 2008 (screening)