Animated in Poland
28.05, 12.00 – 14.00 PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS – POTOCKI PALACE
28.05, 15.30 – 18.30 ONE-ON-ONE MEETINGS – POTOCKI PALACE
RECORDED PITCHING WILL BE AVAILABLE TO WATCH IN THE KFF INDUSTRY GUEST ZONE FROM 29th MAY
access with passes: Industry, Industry Pro, Industry Light, Media
Presentation of Polish short animated films at the last stage of production. The representatives of the selected projects will talk about their films, before they are included in the programmes of film festivals in Poland and abroad. Each year international animated film industry professionals, such as festival programmers, distributors, sales agents and commissioning editors, participate in the pitching and one-on-one meetings afterwards.
Moderated by: Zofia Jaroszuk
SELECTED PROJECTS:
WORKSHOP:
The presentations will be preceded by consultations and a workshop on pitching techniques held by Maarten van Gageldonk – the Head of Program for Kaboom Animation Festival, the largest animation festival in the Netherlands. He also teaches in the Master of Animation at the Master Institute of Visual Cultures (MIVC) in Den Bosch. In recent years he co-edited the book Animation and Memory (2020), published by Palgrave Macmillan.
AWARDS:
The sponsors of the awards and Animated in Poland partners are the Wytwórnia Filmów Fabularnych we Wrocławiu, Sound Mind Studio, Fixafilm and Crew United. Projects will be awarded with:
SOUND MIND STUDIO BEST PITCH Award — a coupon for 10 days of sound post-production in Sound Mind studio run by Michał Fojcik
FIXAFILM BEST PITCH Award — a coupon for image post‑production services worth PLN 10 000 founded by Fixafilm
WFF SPECIAL MENTION – an in-kind contribution: lending equipment and infrastructure and performing selected services worth PLN 30 000
CREW UNITED SPECIAL MENTION — a 5‑years’ Premium membership to Crew United platform for the director and producer of the awarded project
Sound Mind is a sound postproduction studio, founded by Michał Fojcik MPSE, sound designer with over 20 years of experience. Between 2011 – 2015 he worked in Alvernia Studios as a sound designer and head of sound postproduction department, to open his own place in 2015. Michał Fojcik is a member of Motion Picture Sound Editors society, and both Polish and European Film Academies. He is responsible for sound of 100+ feature, animated and documentary films, including ‘White Courage’, ‘Pianoforte’, ‘Gods’, ‘The Red Spider’, ‘21xNY’ or ‘Loving Vincent’’. Awarded with MPSE Golden Reel for Best Music Editing for Documentary and Polish Film Academy Award.
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Fixafilm is a Dolby Vision certified postproduction facility based in Warsaw (Poland). Using cutting-edge technology with a skilled team of over 50 professionals, the company offers a full range of services from mobile DIT systems, editing, VFX and colour correction to mastering, and archiving. The company has post-produced Too Old For Fairytales 2 (2024), LaRoy (2023), Saint (2023), Barbarians 2 (2022) Woman on the Roof (2022), Hopper/Welles (2020), Systrar 1968 (2018), Menashe (2017), Yarden (2016) and restored over 220 productions, including classic films of masters like Peter Weir, Sergei Parajanov, Andrzej Wajda, Andrzej Zulawski, and Dario Argento.
Wroclaw Feature Film Studio is a state cultural institution with a unique 70-year history and tradition. It’s one of the best places in Poland for professional film and television production. There are two sound stages (including a studio with a greenbox), screening room, sound studio, stop motion animation studio, costumes and props warehouse, computer labs. Institution also provides support to both experienced and beginning creators, who can take advantage of a broad range of workshops.
Crew United is a networking platform and database for the European film industry. It enables users to present their audiovisual portfolio; direct search for co-workers and job opportunities, establishing contacts as well as extensive market research. It covers all types of audiovisual production in all stages, from financing to completed works. The portal has been operating since 1996, is available in 9 languages and has over 50,000 registered users. The Crew United team consists of seasoned film professionals based in Germany, Poland, France, Italy, Spain, Greece, Lithuania and Romania.
