POLISH ANIMATED FILMS AT "POLISH DAYS"
Polish Days is the most important industry event at T-Mobile New Horizons International Film Festival.
Participation in Polish Days is an excellent opportunity for producers and film-makers to promote their projects and find international partners. In the selection process, the organises choose the most interesting films, currently made on the Polish market. About 170 people from Poland and abroad confirmed their participation in Polish Days, including the selectors of many international festivals, as well as foreign sales agents, distributors and film producers.
This year, two Polish animated film projects will be shown during the presentation "Polish Days." They will participate in the work-in-progress session, during which fragments of films are shown, which are currently at an advanced stage of production, the industry viewers will watch "Loving Vincent" by Dorota Kobiela and "Another Day of Life" by Damian Nenow and Raul de la Fuente.
The project "Loving Vincent" is the first feature-length painter's animation film in the world, which is made in Wroclaw, Gdansk and Great Britain. The director is the painter Dorota Kobiela, and the co-author of the script - the poet and writer Jacek Dehnel. The film is produced by the studio BreakThru Films, founded in London by Hugh Welchman, the winner of the Academy Award in 2008 for the best short animated film "Peter & the Wolf." The film tells about the life and death of one of the greatest impressionist painters, Vincent van Gogh, and is made using the technique of oil painting. Over 100 painters work on the film. Each frame (12 per second) of the film is a separate painting on canvas, painted in the technique used by the Dutch artist.
"Another Day of Life" is a project by Raúl la Fuente and Damian Nenow, produced by Platige Image. The film is based on the book by the legendary Polish war correspondent Ryszard Kapuściński. It is a story of a reporter, looking for the truth about war, who during a deadly dangerous journey through Angola, comes across situations and events which force him to change his approach to work and life. The film is set during three months of 1975, which Kapuściński spent in this war-torn country. During the expedition, the reporter realises that he is a witness of events, the meaning of which would require that he goes beyond the role of an observer. In order to tell the story of Angola, he would have to undergo a profound transformation himself. "Another Day of Life" is a film which will be made as an animation in a comic book style with fragments of documentary photographs.
Polish Days are co-organised by Polish Film Institute. The partners of the event are Adam Mickiewicz Institute, National Audiovisual Institute, European Capital of Culture 2016 Wroclaw, Chimney Poland, Film Commission Poland, Mazovia-Warsaw Film Commission, T-Mobile, Coloroffon Film, Toya Studios, First Look Locarno Film Festival, EAVE, Festivalscope and Wroclaw Film Commission. Media partners are Film Pro, Film New Europe and Film & TV Kamera.
This year's edition of Polish Days will be held from July 27 to 29 during the 16th T-Mobile New Horizons IFF.