Wojtek Smarzowski was born in 1963
in Korczyn. He studied film science at the
Jagiellonian University in Cracow, and graduated
from the Faculty of Film Photography at the Łódź
Film School.
Andrzej
Szulkowski - director of
photography
DOP with experience in
documentary and television productions, including
documentaries and TV theater productions. He shot
documentaries about writer Ryszard
Kapuściński and primitive painter
Nikifor, among others, and also worked with
feature film directors Filip
Bajon and Filip Zylber.
Andrzej Szulkowski was born in 1962. A
graduate of the Łódź Film School, he works for
both film and television.
Barbara Ostapowicz - art
director
Art director and set
designer, she was involved in dozens of theater
and film productions in Poland and abroad. She was
set designer for Filip Bajon’s
Magnat, and cooperated regularly with
Teresa Kotlarczyk, among other things in
making her features Zakład, Prymas
(a story about Cardinal Wyszyński), and
Odwiedź mnie we śnie. She designed sets for
several serials, including Ekstradycja and
Samo życie, and was recently art director
and set designer for the comedy Ciało by
Tomasz Konecki and Andrzej
Saramonowicz.
In 2000 Barbara
Ostapowicz was nominated for the “Eagle” Polish
Film Prize for her work for Prymas.
Paweł Laskowski - editor
Film
editor of numerous feature films, including the
celebrated Dług by Krzysztof Krauze,
Weiser by Wojciech Marczewski, and
Piotr Wereśniak’s comedy Zróbmy sobie
wnuka, and co-editor of several TV serials, to
mention but Na dobre i na złe, Drogówka and
documentaries of the Polska znana i
nieznana series. Together with Wojtek
Smarzowski, he edited
Kuracja.
Paweł Laskowski is
studying at the Faculty of Film Photography at the
Łódź Film School. He worked for the Features and
Documentary Films Studio (WFDiF) in Warsaw, public
television TVP, and was involved in the production
of numerous music videos for UNIVERSAL and Pomaton
EMI.
Ryszard Tymon Tymański -
composer
Versatile musician, composer, poet
and prose writer. He set up the jazz group Miłość
which was voted best band of the year four times
during the 1990s by readers of the Jazz Forum
magazine. His went on to create the bands
Kury, Poganie and The Users. The 11 CDs he
recorded as band leader won several Fryderyk and
Machinery awards. In 2001 he received the Paszport
award from the Polityka weekly for
outstanding achievements in music, and in 2002 was
voted Personality of the Year.
Ryszard Tymon
Tymański was born in 1968. In addition to music,
he is the author of poetically absurd television
programs, including Brzóska Show and
Dzyndzyryndzy, and of the post-modernistic
novel Chłopi 3. He also writes film music
and runs his own label Biodro Records, which
brought out a CD of the Pogodno band, among
others.
Magdalena Maciejewska - costume
designer
Theater art director and costume
designer, responsible for costumes for two
productions by Agnieszka Glińska
Barbarzyńcy and Bambini di Praga. At
the 2000 Polish Classics theater festival in Opole
she won a prize for her work for Jarzyna’s
Magnetyzm serca production. Magdalena
Maciejewska came to film in 1991, as a set
designer for Filip Zylber’s Pożegnanie z
Marią. She worked with Mariusz
Treliński designing costumes for his
Łagodna, and with Andrzej Żuławski
as art director and set designer for
Szamanka. She also works for the theater
department of Polish public television
TVP.
Magdalena Maciejewska graduated from the
Scenography Faculty of the Warsaw Academy of Fine
Arts.
Jacek Hamela - sound
Sound
recording director for Andrzej Konic’s
serial Pogranicze w ogniu. Worked several
times with directors Magda Łazarkiewicz and
Jerzy Łukaszewicz, recorded sound for
Olaf Lubaszenko’s features Chłopaki nie
płaczą, Poranek Kojota and E = MC2, and
compiled the music soundtrack for Krzysztof
Zanussi’s Skarby ukryte and Życie
jako śmiertelna choroba przenoszona drogą
płciową. He worked with Lech Majewski
on his Angelus, with Tomasz Konecki
and Andrzej Saramonowicz and with Filip
Bajon’s Przedwiośnie, he recorded sound
for Jan Jakub Kolski’s
Pornografia.
Jacek Hamela was born
in 1964 in Opole, and graduated from the Faculty
of Sound Recording of the Warsaw Academy of Music.
At the 2003 Polish Feature Films Festival in
Gdynia he won the Best Sound of the Year prize for
Pornografia, with this film also winning
the Eagle Polish Film Prize. In 2002 he was
nominated for the Eagle prize for the feature
Pół serio.
Ewa Jastrzębska - production
manager
Assistant production manager and
production manager of several dozen feature films,
the first of which was Juliusz Machulski’s
Kingsajz. She went on to work with
Machulski also on his Déjŕ vu, and then
with Janusz Kidawa Błoński on Pamiętnik
znaleziony w garbie, and with Feliks
Falk on his Lato miłości and Daleko
od siebie. She was assistant PM for Olaf
Lubaszenko’s comedies Sztos, Chłopaki nie
płaczą and Poranek Kojota. Her other
feature film projects included Piotr
Szulkin’s Ubu król, Władysław
Pasikowski’s crime series Glina, and
Juliusz Machulski’s latest film
Vinci. She worked on numerous television
theater productions, and some dozen documentary
films and commercials, and was production manager
for all of Wojtek Smarzowski’s
projects.
Ewa Jastrzębska was born in
1960, and is a graduate of the Faculty of
Organization and Management of Gdańsk University,
and of the Film Production Organization Faculty of
the Łódź Film
School. |
