Directing
Filip Hillesland – film director and screenwriter with norwegian roots living in Warsaw, Poland. Warsaw Film School graduate in film directing. Also studied psychology at SWPS University. His short films “Tropical Island” and “Toast” gained recognition at many festivals including the Film Festival in Gdynia, as also the Oscar-qualifying ShortFest in Palm Springs. While doing an internship at CDProjekt in the Cinematics department, he took part in directing and implementing scenes in the CYBERPUNK2077 video-game. He’s currently directing two independent video-games, which are in the production stage. In the years 2017-2019 member of the jury in the “Short Film” category at Script Fiesta screenwriting festival. Since 2017 member of the Warsaw Film School faculty in the Film Directing department, teaching writing and directing short films.
Filmography:
2014 Tropical Island
2015 Toast
Awards:
2017 Toast – Manchester (International Short Film Festival) - II Award for Polish Short Film
Veronica Andersson – Director, screenwriter and actress Veronica Andersson was born in Stockholm, Sweden. She has appeared in Swedish feature films ("I love you" | NETFLIX) and many commercials. Director of music videos and the films "Liberation", "Wiki" and "Fuck, it's Biology", which have been awarded many times in Poland and at international festivals. She has received 18 individual awards, including in Los Angeles and Toronto. A graduate of Film Directing at the Warsaw Film School and political science, gender studies and social anthropology at the Faculty of Philosophy at Linköpings Universitet in Sweden, as well as Acting at Calle Flygare Teater Skola in Stockholm, Sweden. Jury member in the "Short Film" category at the 2018 Script Fiesta, the biggest screenwriting festival in Poland. Juror at the International Portait Film Festival (IPFF) in Bulgaria in 2021. One of the co - writers and co - directors of the full feature film "The Land", which was distributed in cinemas and film festivals in 2021.
Filmography:
2019 Fuck, it’s Biology
2018 Wiki
2016 Liberation
Awards:
2019 Fuck, it’s Biology
- Nagroda Jury Akademickiego – 12. Ogólnopolskie Spotkania Filmowe KAMERALNE LATO, Radom
- Audience Awards – Baltic Independant Film Festival, Mechelinki
- IV Awards in Short Film Competition – Baltic Independant Film Festival, Mechelinki
- Main Award „NOWE OKO” – PRZEŹROCZA Film Festival, Bydgoszcz
- III Award – On Art Film Festival, Warsaw
2018 Wiki
- Best Indie Short – Indie Short Fest, Los Angeles, USA
- BEST NARRATIVE SHORT FILM - Yale Student Film Festival, USA
- Young Jury Award – 65. OKFA Ogólnopolski Konkurs Filmów Niezależnych im. prof. Henryka Kluby, Konin, Poland
- Special Mention – Student Jury Award, Viewfinder Cinematography Masterclass dla Matsa Helgessonna - Zsigmond Vilmos International Film Festival, Szeged, Hungary
- Best Script – 17.Filmski Festival "Uhvati Film" Novi Sad, Serbia
- Audience Award – Kurzfilmfestival Kufstein, Austria
- Special Mention – Kurzfilmfestival Kufstein, Austria
- Audience Award – 17.Filmfest Düsseldorf, Germany
- Best Short International Film – 24FPS International Animation Awards 2019, India
2016 Liberation
- GRAND PRIX – Best Short Film – FeFF, Toronto, Kanada
- Best Cinematography *2018 Yale Student Film Festival, USA
Mateusz Motyka – born in Beskidy in 1992. He studied film directing at the Warsaw Film School and Victorian and American literature at the University of Tromsø. His first short film „Raspberries“ won the Best Polish Student Short Film award at the Manchester International Short Film Festival 2017. Less than a year later "Raspberries" along with the second film entitled "The Woodkin" took 4th. place on the list of "most screened Polish short films at foreign festivals in 2018" prepared by PolishShorts. pl. Co-creator of the feature film "The Land". Graphic designer and illustrator. Creator of film and social posters. He gained experience on film sets, in commercials and in the production of AAA computer games.
Filmography:
2018 Słyszysz?
2018 Spot McDonald's (Papaya Young Directors)
2017 The Woodkin
2016 Raspberries
Awards:
2017 The Woodkin
- Best Student Short Film - Short to the Point , Rumunia
- Best Supporting Actor for Łukasz Gawroński, Redline International Film Festival, Kanada
2016 Raspberries
- Best Art Direction - Redline International Film Festival, Kanada
- Gold Sava - Best Art Design - Polish Short FF, Las Vegas
- Gold Sava - Best Supense - Polish Short FF, Las Vegas
- Best supporting actor - Mieszko Barglik - Redline International Film Festival
Maciej Ślesicki – director, screenwriter, and film producer. Founder and Chancellor of Warsaw Film School. The creator of the films "Trzy minuty. 21:37", "Tato", "Sara" and "Show" as well as the series "13 Posterunek". He graduated from the Radio and Television Faculty at the University of Silesia. Winner of a Gold Duck in 1995 and an award at the Polish Film Festival in Gdynia for directing "Tato". In 1997, he received the distributors' award for the attendance success of the film "Sara". Nominated for Oscars for his production of "Our Curse". Producer of the award-winning film "Rezerwat". Initiator of many actions supporting film debuts. Head of Paisa Films film studio.
Filmography:
2015 Przypadki Cezarego P.
2010 Trzy minuty. 21:37
2007 – 2008 I kto tu rządzi?
2003 Show
2000 13 Posterunek 2
1997 – 1998 13 POSTERUNEK
1997 Sara
1995 Tato
1991 Czarne, Białe (diploma)
Awards:
Trzy minuty. 21:37
- 2010 Gdynia (Polish Film Festival) - award for supporting female role - Agnieszka Grochowska
- 2010 Gdynia (till 1986 Gdańsk) (Polish Film Festival; since 2012 Gdynia Film Festival) - Award for best debut actor Marcin Walewski
- 2010 Zbyszek Cybulski Award Nomination - Agnieszka Grochowska
1997 Sara
- 1997 Gdynia (Polish Film Festival) - Distributors' Award - Maciej Ślesicki
- 1997 Bilet, Award of the Polish Cinema Association Platinum Bilet
1995 Tato
- 1995 Gdynia (Polish Film Festival) - Best Director Award Maciej Ślesicki
- 1995 Gdynia (Polish Film Festival) - Best Actor Award Bogusław Linda
- 1995 Gdynia (Polish Film Festival) - Award for editing Ewa Smal
- 1995 Gdynia (Polish Film Festival) - award for supporting actress Renata Dancewicz
- 1995 Gdynia (Polish Film Festival) - Award for supporting actor Cezary Pazura
- 1996 Tarnów (Tarnów Film Award) - Audience Award
- 1996 Tarnów (Tarnów Film Award) - Youth Jury Award for Maciej Ślesicki's directing debut
- 1996 Golden Duck (awarded by "Film" magazine) for best Polish film; for the year 1995
- 1995 Syrenka Warszawska (Warsaw Mermaid) (award of the Film Critics Club of the Polish Association of Film Critics) - in the feature film category