EUROPEAN SHOOTING STARS is part of EFP’s annual programme that is financially supported by the MEDIA Programme of the European Union and the participating EFP member organisations. Furthermore, each year the project is supported by generous promotional partners, allowing for a wide selection of industry-focused activities for the lucky stars to participate at the Berlinale.
Selected from a short list of 24 nominating European member countries, the hugely talented stars will be presented to the world's media and influential film industry experts alike, from February 8th –10th, at the Berlin International Film Festival 2014.Following in the footsteps of former EUROPEAN SHOOTING STARS including Carey Mulligan, Mélanie Laurent, Domhnall Gleeson and Moritz Bleibtreu, the annual Berlinale debut of the ten performers has become a high point of the festival calendar. All young stars are introduced to influential casting directors, agents, directors, producers and international media across a weekend of scheduled profile-raising events, which culminate in a ceremony at the Berlinale Palast, where each young actor receives the prestigious SHOOTING STARS award.
In this year’s Shooting Star edition Poland will be represented by Mateusz Kosciukiewicz.
Photo: Magda Wunsche
Mateusz was born in 1986. In his short career he performed already 6 major roles in feature films. The groundbreaking point was role in Jacek Borcuch’s film “All That I Love” (premiered in Sundance Film Festival) for which Mateusz received the Polish Film Award as “Discovery of the Year”. In the meantime he was invited by the most prominent polish theatre director – Krzysztof Warlikowski to take part in his international production “The end” which was then showed in the most important theatres in Europe as Hebbel am Uffer- Berlin or Theatre l’Odeon- Paris.
For his next role in film “Mother Teresa of Cats”, Mateusz won the Best Actor Awardat the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, as well as Poland’s highest award for upcoming talent the Zbyszek Cybulski Award. His recent films include “In the name of..” (by Małgośka Szumowska) which had premiere in Berlinale Competition 2013, and will be released in 20 countries worldwide, moreover “Wałęsa” (by Andrzej Wajda), “Trip to the moon” (by Jacek Bromski), “Baczyński (by Kordian Piwowarski), and “Shameless” (by Filip Marczewski). Mateusz is currently working on new production - “Elixir” (by Brodie Higgs) and on development of “11 minutes” new movie by Jerzy Skolimowski.
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