Dramas

Poland2017documentary76'Polska panorama (2017)

A portrait of a former prisoner who spent 14 years in prison for attempted murder. The director accompanies Daniel in the most important moments of his life – christening, work, family meetings. The spectator slowly discovers each of the “dramas” from his past as well as those that have affected him already when at large. But the film is also some kind of a video-diary that Daniels records himself as a way of absolution.

directed by
Zvika Gregory Portnoy, portret reżysera
Zvika Gregory Portnoy

Zvika Gregory Portnoy was born in 1980. Graduated in photography from Bezalel Academy of Art and Design (2007, Jerusalem) and from the Department of Cinematography and Directing at Sam Spiegel School for Cinema (2011, Jerusalem), Scholarship recipient of the American-Israeli Foundation. Member of the Israeli Association of Photographers. Author of photographic and video-art exhibitions (including "A moment before leaving" in Jerusalem, "Israeli beauty" in Tel Aviv) and photographs for numerous shorts and graduate feature films and documentaries. Since 2011, he has been living and working in Poland. During this period he directed the short documentary film "No Reason to Leave" presented in the Documentary ART competition of T-Mobile New Horizons in 2012. He was the cinematographer of the award-winning Polish and international film "15 Pages of the World" directed by Zuzanna Solakiewicz. The documentary film "Dramas" is his feature-length debut. Since 2012 he has been a member of the Polish Filmmakers Association in the "Young Circle".

cinematography
Zuzanna Solakiewicz, Zvika Gregory Portnoy
script
Zvika Gregory Portnoy
music
Stanisław Migała
editing
Zuzanna Solakiewicz
production
Maria Krauss (Plesnar & Krauss FILMS)
Photo
Kadr z filmu Dramas
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