THE GENTLE GIANT

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The main protagonist of The Gentle Giant is going to take part in a poetry contest. To gather up the courage to come out, he collects the memories from the entire life and fights his own demons. It’s a film about one tiny step for mankind, one giant leap for a man.

  • Genre: Documentary
  • Country: Poland
  • Running time: 11
  • Year: 2016
  • Color: kolorowy

Director: Marcin Podolec

Script: Marcin Podolec

DOP: Marcin Gierbisz

Music: Rafał Samborski, Piotr Markowicz

Editing: Marcin Podolec

Production company: PWSFTviT (Państwowa Wyższa Szkoła Filmowa, Telewizyjna i Teatralna), FUMI Studio

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About the director:

Marcin Podolec

Marcin Podolec

Marcin Podolec – born in 1991 in Jarosław, Poland; comic artist, animator, currently works mostly on documentaries and biographies. A graduate (2015) of The Polish National Film School in Lodz (Animation department). His books are published by Kultura Gniewu; co-author of the comic albums: Captain Sheer (2010), Insight (2014) and Sometimes (2011), which was awarded The Comic Book of the Year in Poland; writer and illustrator of All Taken (2012) and Fugazi Music Club (2013), which was sold to several international publishers (Italy, France, Germany, Spain). His short animadoc A Documentary Film (2015) was screened and awarded at many film festivals, such as the DOK Lepizig, SICAF (Seoul) and Clermont-Ferrand Film Festival. His next animated documentary, The Gentle Giant (2016), is his graduate film.

 

At festivals:

9th CyBorg Film Festival, Italy, 2016 (competition)

Kino Fest International Digital Film Festival 2016, Romania, 2016 (screening)

Animatou - International Animation Film Festival, Switzerland, 2016 (competition)

Tofuzi 2016, Georgia, 2016 (competition)

5th Primanima World Festival For First Animation, HUNGARY, 2016 (competition)

9th KLIK! Amsterdam Animation Festival, Holand, 2016 (competition)

DOK Leipzig, Germany, 2016 (screening)

32nd interfilm, International Short Film Festival Berlin, Germany, 2016 (screening)

14th Mumia - Underground World Animation Festival, Brazil, 2016 (competition)

21st Regard - Saguenay International Short Film Festival, Canada, 2017 (screening)

DocsBarcelona, Spain, 2017 (competition)

CinEast - Central and Eastern European FF, Luxembourg, 2017 (competition)

11th Big Cartoon Festival, Russia, 2017 (competition)

Alexandre Trauner Art. / Film Festival 2018, Hungary, 2018 (competition)

63rd International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film – DOK Leipzig, Germany, 2020 (screening)