Gdynia Film Festival focuses on showcasing Polish cinema, but the Polish Film Institute (www.pisf.pl) Awards remind the filmmakers and viewers how important it is to promote film and develop events and ideas that build audiences. During a special celebratory gala held at Gdynia on 10 September 2013, the Institute recognized the achievements of those people and institutions that were instrumental in publicizing Polish cinema both locally an abroad in the past year.
- Cinema consist out of filmmakers: directors, screenwriters, actors and DoPs and the focus of the viewers and the media falls mainly on them. But the success of cinema comes not only from those who created. It is also driven from the people who work everyday to make this success happen, but they are invisible to us. Their passion and involvement makes us understand cinema better and love it even more. We dedicate our awards to the people who manage cinemas, promote the films, those who write about film and trough their work enable the artist to have a dialogue with the viewer." said Assignees Dormice during the event.
The Polish Film Institute Awards were presented for the 6th time in several categories, all connected to film promotion. The distributor that strive in successfully distribution a foreign title in Poland was Against Gravity while the Gdynia Film Festival was named the Best Local Film Event. The award for the Best Film Critics was given to Tadeusz Sobolewski and Barbara Hollednder and the Best Digital Reconstruction Of Polish Films prize went to TPS Film Studio.
Full list of winners:
Cinema:
Art-house cinema Amok in Gliwice
International Film Event
14. “Cinema on the Border” Restrospective in Cieszyn
Local Film Event:
Promotion abroad
10. New Polish Film Festival Filmland Polen in Germany
Distribution Of A Foreign Film Abroad:
Against Gravity - distribution of the first part of a film trilogy Ulrich Seidl's "Paradise: Love"
Film critique
Tadeusz Sobolewski
Barbara Hollender
Radio broadcast or television show:
"One scene" TVP 1 - Michał Chaciński, Michał Bielawski, Łukasz Borzęcki
Internet portal
Book or publication on film
"Historia niebyła kina PRL", Tadeusz Lubelski
Education of young viewer
Project "Między nami autorami - www.edukacjafilmowa.pl"
Disccussion Film club
DKF "Zwierzyńczyk" in Zwierzyniec
Digital reconstruction of Polish cinema
Cinema poster
"Argentinean Lesson", Jerzy Czerniawski
