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April 23 - May 1, 2005

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MAGDALENA PIEKORZ

Magdalena Piekorz

Magdalena Piekorz was born in Sosnowiec in 1974. She graduated from the Film Directing Faculty of the Radio and Television Department of the University of Silesia. She is a screenwriter and director of many documentaries: Girls from Szymanów (Bronze Hobby Horse at the Crakow FF in 1998), Visitors (Grand Prix at Euroshorts Festival’ 99), Labyrinth (honorary mention at the European Integration Film Festival You and Me 2001).

The Welts (2004) is her feature debut based on critically acclaimed novel Gnój by Wojciech Kuczok. It received Golden Lion for the best film of the PFF Gdynia 2004

FILMOGRAPHY

2004 The Welts (Pregi), Golden Lions, Prize for Best Costumes, Best Cinematography, Best Sound and Audience Award at the Polish Film Festival Gdynia 2004
2001 Labyrinth (Labirynt) (honorary mention at the European Integration Film festival You and Me)
2002 Chicago (documentary series, 25 episodes)
2001 To find, to look, to bury (Znalezc, zobaczyc, pochowac)
1999 Visitors (Przybysze) (Grand Prix at the Euroshorts Festival ’99)
1998 Franciscan Spontaneity (Franciszkanski spontan) (Honorary jury Award at the Minor Documentary Forms Festival in Szczecin ’99)
1997 The girls from Szymanow (Dziewczyny z Szymanowa), Bronze Lajkonik at the Polish Documentary and Short Film Festival in Krakow ’98

Source: The 6th Polish Film Festival in Los Angeles