WARSAW: False Witness, the film written by Iglika Triffonova which won the Krzysztof Kieślowski Award at the fifth edition of ScripTeast, is now shooting.
WARSAW: Internationally acclaimed Polish artist Zbigniew Libera is in production with his directing debut, an experimental science-fiction feature titled Walser starring Krzysztof Stroiński (Fear of Falling) and Adam Sikora (Essential Killing, The Mill and the Cross) as the film’s cinematographer. Libera co-wrote the script with Grzegorz Jankowicz.
WARSAW: Director/screenwriter/producer Krzysztof Zanussi has finished shooting The Foreign Body, the story of a young Italian involved in the Catholic renewal movement who comes to Poland following a woman he loves.
WARSAW: The Rose and The Ring, a 75-minute animated film directed by Zofia Oldak based on the classic English fairy tale of William Makepeace Thackeray is in production at Studio Miniatur Filmowych.
WARSAW: The third part of a 26-episode series slated for broadcast in Poland and Argentina, Hip-Hip & Hurra, is in the final stage of production.
WARSAW: Poland’s Braidmade Films teams up with Germany’s 27 Films Productions to co-produce The Fox, a feature film based on the D.H. Lawrence book and directed by Matthias Luthardt.
WARSAW: Blue Notebook, a documentary directed by Natasza Ziółkowska-Kurczuk about 20th century classical Polish composer Witold Lutosławski, is currently in production.
WARSAW: Krzysztof Zanussi (Persona Non Grata, 2005) has started a 30 day filming schedule on The Foreign Body (Obce ciało), also known as Inner Voice (Głos wewnętrzny).
LUBLIN: Jacek Lusinski (the screenwriter and director of Piksele, 2009) is in preproduction with the feature film Carte Blanche. The film’s cast includes outstanding Polish actors Andrzej Chyra (In the Name of…) and Arkadiusz Jakubik (Drogowka).
WARSAW: A cross-genre documentary series based on the international bestseller Gottland (European book of the year 2009) by Mariusz Szczygieł is in production as a seven-episode series directed by seven documentary filmmakers.
