Sunday, May 14 | 5:30 p.m. | POLIN Museum
Documentary Cinema Is Not Indifferent. MDAG debate
partner: POLIN Museum
Together with leading documentary filmmakers, we will centre the conversation on the slogan of MDAG’s 20th edition: Don't be indifferent. We will sum up the festival’s last two decades, paying special attention to those who, through their documentary work, bring us closer to the experiences of others and help us see what is not always visible from afar, thus mobilising us to action. We will talk about the extraordinary value of cinema itself, which teaches us to be sensitive and attentive to the world.
MDAG Industry awards will be presented at the event.
Guests:
Ania Trzebiatowska - Feature film programmer for the Sundance Film Festival. Prior to that she was the Sales & Acquisitions Executive for the doc sales agency, Autlook Filmsales and Senior Director of Acquisitions for the NYC-based agency, Visit Films. Aside from her work at Sundance, Ania runs Sands: International Film Festival of St Andrews in Scotland. She was also the artistic director of the Off Camera IFF (Krakow, Poland), which she programmed between 2008-2020.
Hanna Polak - Born in Katowice, Poland, in 1967, the director has been nominated for an Oscar® and an Emmy for "The Children of Leningradsky" and for a Producers Guild of America Award for "Something Better to Come", among many other awards and accolades.
David France – American investigative reporter, non-fiction author, and filmmaker, nominated for an Oscar in 2013 for his debut film ‘How to Survive a Plague'.
Jonas Rasmussen –Danish film director and screenwriter. He was awarded the Grand Jury Prize in the World Cinema Documentary Competition at the Sundance Film Festival for “Flee”.
Moderator:
Grażyna Torbicka – journalist, film critic, co-creator and artistic director of the Dwa Brzegi Film and Art Festival in Kazimierz Dolny.
Free admission.
