Lower Silesia Grand Prix
Millennium Docs Against Gravity Film Festival in cooperation with Lower Silesian Film Centre is organizing Wrocław edition of the festival for the 12th time. A jury will give out the Lower Silesia Grand Prix Award and 3000 euros to the winning film from the festival’s Main Competition.
JURY:
Kamil Bałuk – reporter, journalist, graduate of the University of Wrocław's Interdisciplinary Individual Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences, sociology, Dutch philology and the Polish School of Reportage. He is the author of the books “Wszystkie dzieci Louisa” and ”Wodecki. Tak mi wyszło". His texts have been published in "Duży Format", "Przekrój" and "Wysokie Obcasy".He hosts the podcast "Dawno temu w telewizji" on Newonce radio. He has lectured at the Faculty of Journalism of the University of Wrocław and at the Polish School of Reportage in Warsaw, where he was a coordinator for seven years. Scholarship holder of the Ryszard Kapuściński Foundation and the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage.
Magdalena Barbaruk - PhD working at the Department of Cultural Studies of the University of Wrocław. Her field of interest includes literature's causality, its impact on lifestyles and the spatial mapping. She conducts research in Spain and South America, mainly in Chile. She is the author of the books “Długi cień Don Kichota” and “Sensy błądzenia. La Mancha i jej peryferie”, as well as the documentary film “Błędne mapy”, where she experiments with the essay form and audiovisual means. She studies the activities of the so-called "School of Valparaíso", which combined architecture and poetry with a mission of decolonisation. Wrocław native, she grew up with a view of a cinema and in the cinema: her sandbox was "Warszawa" (now DCF). She treats the film screening as a space for insight, where the cognitive act becomes at the same time an ethical act.
Kostiantyn Pochtar – Ukrainian musician, multi-instrumentalist and songwriter. He splits his time between Wrocław and Kyiv, where he was one of the founders of the indie band 5 Vymir, whose albums are considered among the most interesting on the Ukrainian independent music scene. He currently performs under the pseudonym Postman. He has played hundreds of concerts in over a dozen European countries, including OFF Festival, Sziget (Hungary), Fusion (Germany) and Zermatt Unplugged (Switzerland). He spent 2022 on the #StandWithUkraine charity tour, which was covered by “Rolling Stone”, BBC, “Gazeta Wyborcza” and “Polityka”. He graduated from the Kyiv National I. K. Karpenko-Karyi Theatre, Cinema and Television University majoring in Sound Engineering.
