FREESTYLE LIFE

ŻYCIE STYLEM DOWOLNYM

Freestyle life is a story of the art of putting up the fight, when the game involves the most competitive rivals – ourselves. Resistance to the determinism leads towards stubborn challenging oneselves to consecutive duels. The surface of the screen that precisely keeps the viewer from reality resembles the surface of water that separates swimmers from their disability.

FILM REPRESENTED BY KRAKOW FILM FOUNDATION

  • Genre: Dokumentalny
  • Country: Poland
  • Running time: 10
  • Year: 2012

Director: Adam Palenta

Script: Adam Palenta

DOP: Adam Palenta

Editing: Adam Palenta

Production company: Studio Munka

About the director:

Adam Palenta

Adam Palenta

Cinematographer, director and photographer. Palenta is a graduate of universities in Poznań, Katowice, Opawa and Warsaw who won numerous honorary diplomas and awards, among others for his photography to the short feature film Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark Room (dir. K. Czekaj). Apart from documentary and feature films he also makes video clips and TV commercials. The documentary film Freestyle Life is his directing debut, produced by the Andrzej Munk Studio as part of the project The First Documentary.

At festivals:

DocsDF 2012, Mexico, 2012 (screening)

20th Camerimage, Poland, 2012 (competition)

One World Romania International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival, Romania, 2013 (competition)

Aubagne International Film Festival, France, 2013 (competition)

4th BCN Sports Film Festival, Spain, 2013 (Best Short Film)

DOXA Documentary FF, Canada, 2013 (Youth Jury Honourable Mention)

Human Rights Film Festival of Barcelona / NYC / Paris 2013, 2013 (competition)

16th Ismailia International Film Festival, Egypt , 2013 (competition)

11th Gdańsk Doc Film Festival, Poland, 2013 (competition)

Palm Springs International Short Fest 2013, USA, 2013 (competition)

21st Curtas Vila do Conde Film Festival, 2013 (screening)

13. T-mobile New Horizons, Poland, 2013 (competition)

18th Split Film Festival 2013, Croatia, 2013 (competition)

5th Dokubazaar, Slovenia, 2013 (screening)

International Short Film Festival of Lille 2013, France, 2013 (competition)

31st Milano International FICTS FEST 2013, Italy, 2013 (Special Mention)

10th Lago Film Fest, Italy, 2014 (screening)

8th Ciné Privé Film Festival, Belgium, 2015 (screening)

Bogotá Short Film Festival BOGOshorts, Colombia, 2017 (screening)