WARSAW: Art of Loving, a biopic of the famous Polish sexologist Michalina Wisłocka, is on track to be the top Polish title in 2017 with over 800,000 admissions in the first two weeks in distribution.
WARSAW: VoD service provider Showmax will premiere in Poland on 15 February 2017.
Polish cinema had another strong year in 2016, with record breaking box office results, international success of feature and documentary films, worldwide distribution for domestic titles, as well as a new fund supporting minority coproduction and a promise of tax breaks from the new government.
WARSAW: The Polish box office hit of 2016, Volhynia directed by Wojciech Smarzowski, got the most nods at the 2016 Polish Film Award - The Eagles nominations.
WARSAW: Polish Director and producer Leszek Kopeć will have a double role as both Festival Director and Programme Director of the Gdynia Film Festival, the most important event for Polish cinema.
WARSAW: The Polish government is working on a bill that would decrease the monopoly of foreign companies in the private media sector and a separate project that will increase the revenues for public media from the citizens.
WARSAW: Polish filmmakers gathered 13,300 EUR / 58,000 PLN for charity during an event put up by the Polish Film Institute to support the Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity (WOŚP). The highest bid of 1,900 EUR / 8,600 PLN went to a private dinner with Agnieszka Holland.
WARSAW: Polish government is working on a new bill that will introduce a Polish Audiovisual Fund with 23.8 m EUR /104.5 m PLN of annual budget to spend on production incentives. Each producer will have the chance to receive a maximum of 25% from the film's budget refunded.
WARSAW: Andrzej Wajda's last film Afterimage sold over 100,000 tickets since its opening on 13 January 2016. This is the first film distributed by Akson Distribution, a new venture of Akson Studio.
WARSAW: Agnieszka Smoczyńska’s debut feature The Lure will be released by Janus Films in US cinemas in February 2017. This horror-musical hybrid is the winner of the Special Jury Award at Sundance IFF.
