Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences CEO Bill Kramer “absolutely sees great possibilities” in a collaboration between the Academy and its Academy Museum with Camerimage, which recently broke ground on a new European Film Center in the Polish festival’s host city of Toruń.
Kramer participated in a Wednesday panel about building cultural centers such as the Academy Museum and European Film Center, during the 31st edition of the EnergaCamerimage cinematography film festival. He emphasized that the Academy has the only museum in the U.S. that’s solely devoted to cinema, outlining its features including its screening theaters and exhibitions. He added that he hopes the museum will have an impact in “reframing” film as an art form and cultural and educational tool.
During the panel, he reported that the Academy Museum, which opened in 2021, is already working to take its exhibitions around the world via a network of centers.
Kramer participated in a Wednesday panel about building cultural centers such as the Academy Museum and European Film Center, during the 31st edition of the EnergaCamerimage cinematography film festival. He emphasized that the Academy has the only museum in the U.S. that’s solely devoted to cinema, outlining its features including its screening theaters and exhibitions. He added that he hopes the museum will have an impact in “reframing” film as an art form and cultural and educational tool.
During the panel, he reported that the Academy Museum, which opened in 2021, is already working to take its exhibitions around the world via a network of centers.
- 11/15/2023
- by Carolyn Giardina
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The new film Ferrari, starring and executive produced by Adam Driver, was screened on November 12 during Poland’s 2023 Camerimage International Film Festival.
After the screening, a Q&a took place during which one of the attendees asked the star about the film’s crash scenes.
“What do you think about [the] crash scenes?” one of the attendees asked Driver. “They looked pretty harsh, drastic and, I must say, cheesy for me. What do you think?”
“F— you, I don’t know. Next question,” the actor replied.
This reply was recorded on video and posted on X.
Adam Driver reacts to someone asking about & criticizing the crash scenes in ‘Ferrari’ as “pretty harsh, drastic and cheesy.”
“Fuck you, I don’t know?” pic.twitter.com/MtmehVa6D3
— DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm) November 12, 2023
Other audience members reacted to his response with gasps and what sounded like uncomfortable laughter.
Marek Żydowicz, the director and founder of the festival,...
After the screening, a Q&a took place during which one of the attendees asked the star about the film’s crash scenes.
“What do you think about [the] crash scenes?” one of the attendees asked Driver. “They looked pretty harsh, drastic and, I must say, cheesy for me. What do you think?”
“F— you, I don’t know. Next question,” the actor replied.
This reply was recorded on video and posted on X.
Adam Driver reacts to someone asking about & criticizing the crash scenes in ‘Ferrari’ as “pretty harsh, drastic and cheesy.”
“Fuck you, I don’t know?” pic.twitter.com/MtmehVa6D3
— DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm) November 12, 2023
Other audience members reacted to his response with gasps and what sounded like uncomfortable laughter.
Marek Żydowicz, the director and founder of the festival,...
- 11/15/2023
- by Alessio Atria
- Uinterview
Adam Driver’s lowkey visit to Poland’s EnergaCamerimage Film Festival turned into a viral internet meme over the weekend after the actor gave an expletive response to a question during an audience Q&a following a screening of Ferrari.
Marek Zydowicz, the festival’s director and founder, has now shared a statement in response to the viral clip, which has been the center of much discussion on the ground here in Torun.
“As is the case with any film festival featuring open conversations with invited artists, both sensible and completely trivial questions and comments. In my opinion, the question raised during the Q&a with Adam Driver belonged to the second category,” Zydowicz’s statement read. “It was an assessment, lacking deeper reasoning, which is against the spirit of our festival and the work we are aiming to achieve.”
Zydowicz continued to say that the goal of Camerimage is to “celebrate,...
Marek Zydowicz, the festival’s director and founder, has now shared a statement in response to the viral clip, which has been the center of much discussion on the ground here in Torun.
“As is the case with any film festival featuring open conversations with invited artists, both sensible and completely trivial questions and comments. In my opinion, the question raised during the Q&a with Adam Driver belonged to the second category,” Zydowicz’s statement read. “It was an assessment, lacking deeper reasoning, which is against the spirit of our festival and the work we are aiming to achieve.”
Zydowicz continued to say that the goal of Camerimage is to “celebrate,...
- 11/13/2023
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
Update, November 13: Camerimage Film Festival director Marek Żydowicz has released the following statement about Driver’s exchange with a fan.
“As the founder and director of the EnergaCAMERIMAGE film festival, I was very honored to have Adam Driver as our guest at the festival. We prepared a very demanding festival schedule for him, one that Adam embraced with great openness and commitment. Despite the very tight program of his visit to Toruń related to his honorary Golden Frog award and promotion of the film Ferrari as part of the Main Competition at our festival, he participated in meetings and discussions about EnergaCAMERIMAGE film festival and the art of cinematography, met with the admirers of his talent as well as cinema aficionados, and asked for the conversation following the screening to be open to the public to have that direct dialogue with people who came to see the film. He...
“As the founder and director of the EnergaCAMERIMAGE film festival, I was very honored to have Adam Driver as our guest at the festival. We prepared a very demanding festival schedule for him, one that Adam embraced with great openness and commitment. Despite the very tight program of his visit to Toruń related to his honorary Golden Frog award and promotion of the film Ferrari as part of the Main Competition at our festival, he participated in meetings and discussions about EnergaCAMERIMAGE film festival and the art of cinematography, met with the admirers of his talent as well as cinema aficionados, and asked for the conversation following the screening to be open to the public to have that direct dialogue with people who came to see the film. He...
- 11/13/2023
- by Christian Zilko
- Indiewire
Adam Driver didn’t mince words when asked about the “cheesy” crash scenes in his new movie, Ferrari.
The film was screened Sunday at Poland’s Camerimage Film Festival, followed by a Q&a with the star, who also is an executive producer on the movie.
“What do you think about [the] crash scenes?” Driver was asked by an audience member during the Q&a. “They looked pretty harsh, drastic and, I must say, cheesy for me. What do you think?”
Driver replied bluntly: “Fuck you, I don’t know. Next question.”
The response was met with some gasps as well as what sounded like some uncomfortable laughter.
Watch a video of the moment that was posted on X (formerly Twitter) below.
Adam Driver reacts to someone asking about & criticizing the crash scenes in ‘Ferrari’ as “pretty harsh, drastic and cheesy.”
“Fuck you, I don’t know?” pic.twitter.com/MtmehVa...
The film was screened Sunday at Poland’s Camerimage Film Festival, followed by a Q&a with the star, who also is an executive producer on the movie.
“What do you think about [the] crash scenes?” Driver was asked by an audience member during the Q&a. “They looked pretty harsh, drastic and, I must say, cheesy for me. What do you think?”
Driver replied bluntly: “Fuck you, I don’t know. Next question.”
The response was met with some gasps as well as what sounded like some uncomfortable laughter.
Watch a video of the moment that was posted on X (formerly Twitter) below.
Adam Driver reacts to someone asking about & criticizing the crash scenes in ‘Ferrari’ as “pretty harsh, drastic and cheesy.”
“Fuck you, I don’t know?” pic.twitter.com/MtmehVa...
- 11/13/2023
- by Kimberly Nordyke
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
A thick fog hung over Torun, Poland, this evening as the 31st edition of the city’s EnergaCamerimage Film Festival cruised into gear with a lengthy opening ceremony at the stylish Jordanki Culture Centre.
As always at Camerimage, proceedings on the eve began with a series of speeches from local politicians and dignitaries. These scripted interventions were followed by an emotional tribute to the late cinematographer and former Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences president, John Bailey, who died Friday in Los Angeles. He was 81.
As a cinematographer, Bailey’s credits included the Oscar Best Picture-winning Ordinary People and The Big Chill. Bailey’s resume also included Silverado, The Accidental Tourist, Groundhog Day, In the Line of Fire, As Good as It Gets, How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, and Must Love Dogs across a five-decade career.
Camerimage festival director Marek Zydowicz led tributes to Bailey,...
As always at Camerimage, proceedings on the eve began with a series of speeches from local politicians and dignitaries. These scripted interventions were followed by an emotional tribute to the late cinematographer and former Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences president, John Bailey, who died Friday in Los Angeles. He was 81.
As a cinematographer, Bailey’s credits included the Oscar Best Picture-winning Ordinary People and The Big Chill. Bailey’s resume also included Silverado, The Accidental Tourist, Groundhog Day, In the Line of Fire, As Good as It Gets, How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, and Must Love Dogs across a five-decade career.
Camerimage festival director Marek Zydowicz led tributes to Bailey,...
- 11/11/2023
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
Just weeks before the 31st edition of Poland’s EnergaCamerimage gets underway, there was a groundbreaking for the planned European Film Center Camerimage, a Pln 600 million (roughly ($144 million) cultural center that will be built in host city Toruń and used in future years as the international cinematography film festival’s main venue. Plans call for the center to include a main screening room with seating for roughly 1,500, as well as three 200-300-seat screening rooms, a soundstage for production and postproduction facilities.
The new center underscores the growth of the festival, which has become a bellwether for what’s to come in the cinematography Oscar race. In three of the past four years, the winner of Camerimage’s Golden Frog has gone on to earn an Oscar nomination in cinematography, including 2019’s Joker and 2020’s Nomadland and 2022’s Tár.
According to festival director Marek Żydowicz, more than 1,000 films were viewed...
The new center underscores the growth of the festival, which has become a bellwether for what’s to come in the cinematography Oscar race. In three of the past four years, the winner of Camerimage’s Golden Frog has gone on to earn an Oscar nomination in cinematography, including 2019’s Joker and 2020’s Nomadland and 2022’s Tár.
According to festival director Marek Żydowicz, more than 1,000 films were viewed...
- 11/11/2023
- by Carolyn Giardina
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
There was an emotional start to the 31st EnergaCamerimage cinematography film festival as news spread that John Bailey — the cinematographer behind films such as Ordinary People, The Big Chill and As Good As It Gets, and former president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences — died Friday at age 81.
During Saturday’s opening ceremony, festival director Marek Żydowicz gave a heartfelt tribute to the Dp as he opened Camerimage, which is held annually in Toruń, Poland. “It is very difficult for me to talk about it,” he said, introducing a black-and-while clip featuring portions of Bailey’s 2019 speech when he accepted the Camerimage Lifetime Achievement Award. Bailey and his wife, Oscar-nominated editor Carol Littleton, had attended the festival on multiple occasions. Żydowicz also emphasized the bond between Camerimage and the Motion Picture Academy that Bailey helped to strengthen. He said, “John, you will forever be in our hearts.
During Saturday’s opening ceremony, festival director Marek Żydowicz gave a heartfelt tribute to the Dp as he opened Camerimage, which is held annually in Toruń, Poland. “It is very difficult for me to talk about it,” he said, introducing a black-and-while clip featuring portions of Bailey’s 2019 speech when he accepted the Camerimage Lifetime Achievement Award. Bailey and his wife, Oscar-nominated editor Carol Littleton, had attended the festival on multiple occasions. Żydowicz also emphasized the bond between Camerimage and the Motion Picture Academy that Bailey helped to strengthen. He said, “John, you will forever be in our hearts.
- 11/11/2023
- by Carolyn Giardina
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Like the cinematography sector overall this year, the profession’s prime annual festival, Poland’s Camerimage, has come through major challenges in 2023, says the event’s founder, Marek Zydowicz.
Launching in the historic town of Torun on Nov. 11, the 31st edition of the fest was organized in a time of nearby crises in Europe plus record levels of inflation hitting the region, and fallout from the Hollywood actors strike.
“It’s hard to say these things were really helping us,” notes Kazik Suwala, one of the festival’s key organizers and director of its most ambitious project, the construction of the European Film Center, which broke ground in October. “It was a tough year to work,” as he puts it. “The preparations were much harder than usual. Getting movies programmed involved much more time.”
Thus, Zydowicz and Suwala confess to feeling a bit of extra pride in pulling off a...
Launching in the historic town of Torun on Nov. 11, the 31st edition of the fest was organized in a time of nearby crises in Europe plus record levels of inflation hitting the region, and fallout from the Hollywood actors strike.
“It’s hard to say these things were really helping us,” notes Kazik Suwala, one of the festival’s key organizers and director of its most ambitious project, the construction of the European Film Center, which broke ground in October. “It was a tough year to work,” as he puts it. “The preparations were much harder than usual. Getting movies programmed involved much more time.”
Thus, Zydowicz and Suwala confess to feeling a bit of extra pride in pulling off a...
- 11/6/2023
- by Will Tizard
- Variety Film + TV
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Florian Hoffmeister’s lensing of Tár, the Todd Field drama starring Cate Blanchett as an Egot-winning German conductor in a downward spiral, topped the EnergaCamerimage main competition by winning its Golden Frog.
Also Saturday in Toruń, Poland, during the closing ceremony of the 30th edition of the international cinematography film festival, runners-up were Dp Darius Khondji, who won the Silver Frog for Alejandro González Iñárritu’s personal Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths; and Dp Jamie Ramsay, who collected the Bronze Frog for Oliver Hermanus-helmed drama Living, which premiered in January during Sundance.
Hoffmeister was filming in Iceland and accepted the award via video. He saluted director Field for his “passion about cinematography.”
During the ceremony, Bardo claimed the Fipresci critics prize, and the Audience Award went to Mandy Walker’s bold lensing of Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis.
Festival director...
Florian Hoffmeister’s lensing of Tár, the Todd Field drama starring Cate Blanchett as an Egot-winning German conductor in a downward spiral, topped the EnergaCamerimage main competition by winning its Golden Frog.
Also Saturday in Toruń, Poland, during the closing ceremony of the 30th edition of the international cinematography film festival, runners-up were Dp Darius Khondji, who won the Silver Frog for Alejandro González Iñárritu’s personal Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths; and Dp Jamie Ramsay, who collected the Bronze Frog for Oliver Hermanus-helmed drama Living, which premiered in January during Sundance.
Hoffmeister was filming in Iceland and accepted the award via video. He saluted director Field for his “passion about cinematography.”
During the ceremony, Bardo claimed the Fipresci critics prize, and the Audience Award went to Mandy Walker’s bold lensing of Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis.
Festival director...
- 11/19/2022
- by Carolyn Giardina
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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Sam Mendes spoke of his collaborations with cinematographers from Conrad Hall to Roger Deakins, while also voicing support for Ukraine, during the opening ceremony of the 30th EnergaCamerimage international cinematography film festival.
Saturday in Toruń, Poland, the Academy Award-winning helmer accepted the Special Krzysztof Kieslowski Award for a Director while acknowledging that “it’s difficult to speak of celebration” after hearing from and seeing images of those in Ukraine that were presented during the ceremony. “I made a movie (1917) with Roger [Deakins] about two young men caught up in a senseless war. The question I got asked over and over again is, ‘Is this relevant?’ I’m afraid to say, it is and it will always be. We stand with everyone in Ukraine.”
He acknowledged the cinematographers with whom he has worked, starting with the late Hall, who won Oscars for Mendes’ first two movies,...
Sam Mendes spoke of his collaborations with cinematographers from Conrad Hall to Roger Deakins, while also voicing support for Ukraine, during the opening ceremony of the 30th EnergaCamerimage international cinematography film festival.
Saturday in Toruń, Poland, the Academy Award-winning helmer accepted the Special Krzysztof Kieslowski Award for a Director while acknowledging that “it’s difficult to speak of celebration” after hearing from and seeing images of those in Ukraine that were presented during the ceremony. “I made a movie (1917) with Roger [Deakins] about two young men caught up in a senseless war. The question I got asked over and over again is, ‘Is this relevant?’ I’m afraid to say, it is and it will always be. We stand with everyone in Ukraine.”
He acknowledged the cinematographers with whom he has worked, starting with the late Hall, who won Oscars for Mendes’ first two movies,...
- 11/12/2022
- by Carolyn Giardina
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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As the 30th edition of Poland’s EnergaCamerimage international cinematography film festival gets underway, creator and director Marek Żydowicz asserts that promoting cinematographers’ artistic contributions in the hopes of expanding authorship rights to their work remains a priority. He also shares an update on the planned European Film Center Camerimage, a cultural center that will be built in host city Toruń.
Planning for the center began in 2019, when Żydowicz signed an agreement with the Polish state and Toruń government. Construction — representing an investment of Pln 600 million (roughly 128.9 million) — is slated to begin next year and expected to be completed by the end of 2025.
Żydowicz says the center will include a main screening room with seating for roughly 1,500, as well as three 200-300 seat screening rooms. “There will be areas for exhibitions, there will be areas for education,” he adds, nothing that the project...
As the 30th edition of Poland’s EnergaCamerimage international cinematography film festival gets underway, creator and director Marek Żydowicz asserts that promoting cinematographers’ artistic contributions in the hopes of expanding authorship rights to their work remains a priority. He also shares an update on the planned European Film Center Camerimage, a cultural center that will be built in host city Toruń.
Planning for the center began in 2019, when Żydowicz signed an agreement with the Polish state and Toruń government. Construction — representing an investment of Pln 600 million (roughly 128.9 million) — is slated to begin next year and expected to be completed by the end of 2025.
Żydowicz says the center will include a main screening room with seating for roughly 1,500, as well as three 200-300 seat screening rooms. “There will be areas for exhibitions, there will be areas for education,” he adds, nothing that the project...
- 11/12/2022
- by Carolyn Giardina
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Since 1993, Poland’s Camerimage film festival has followed a circular path, launching in the medieval city of Toruń, then moving the festivities first to Łódź and then to Bydgoszcz, before completing a full revolution with a return to its original, historic site.
Per the festival brass, the cinematography showcase’s peripatetic nature for the past three decades has above all stemmed from a simple desire to set down where roots could grow. “From the very beginning, our dream was to hold this festival in its own, proper location,” says Camerimage founder Marek Zydowicz. “To have a dedicated space that runs all year long, offering education, and showing films that represent our values. Because thus far, we’ve always been moving, looking for that best place.”
Now aiming for a late 2025 opening, the festival’s flagship European Film Center project will keep its doors open all-year long to the industry professionals...
Per the festival brass, the cinematography showcase’s peripatetic nature for the past three decades has above all stemmed from a simple desire to set down where roots could grow. “From the very beginning, our dream was to hold this festival in its own, proper location,” says Camerimage founder Marek Zydowicz. “To have a dedicated space that runs all year long, offering education, and showing films that represent our values. Because thus far, we’ve always been moving, looking for that best place.”
Now aiming for a late 2025 opening, the festival’s flagship European Film Center project will keep its doors open all-year long to the industry professionals...
- 10/28/2022
- by Ben Croll
- Variety Film + TV
When Camerimage Film Festival founder Marek Zydowicz launched his cinematography-centered event in the fall of 1993, the film world spun on a rather different axis.
In Hollywood, star-driven dramas like “The Fugitive” and “The Firm” drove the local box office, while in Europe, auteur Krzysztof Kieślowski was right in the midst of his “Three Colors” Trilogy, an art-house high-watermark that would turn out to be the Polish filmmaker’s final artistic statement as a narrative feature film director. And across the world, throughout its various film production industries big and small, celluloid reigned supreme. To say that things have changed would be something of an understatement.
“We were kind of expecting that civilization would go in a different direction,” Zydowicz deadpans. “We could say the same for film.”
Still, as Camerimage readies its 30th edition – which will run from Nov. 12-19 in the Polish city of Toruń – organizers have never lost...
In Hollywood, star-driven dramas like “The Fugitive” and “The Firm” drove the local box office, while in Europe, auteur Krzysztof Kieślowski was right in the midst of his “Three Colors” Trilogy, an art-house high-watermark that would turn out to be the Polish filmmaker’s final artistic statement as a narrative feature film director. And across the world, throughout its various film production industries big and small, celluloid reigned supreme. To say that things have changed would be something of an understatement.
“We were kind of expecting that civilization would go in a different direction,” Zydowicz deadpans. “We could say the same for film.”
Still, as Camerimage readies its 30th edition – which will run from Nov. 12-19 in the Polish city of Toruń – organizers have never lost...
- 10/28/2022
- by Ben Croll
- Variety Film + TV
Life on the road and fantasy worlds held sway at the 29th edition of the EnergaCamerimage International Film Festival on Saturday, winning big after a week of scaled down but enthusiastic industry events, seminars and screenings celebrating cinematography.
“C’mon C’mon,” shot by Robbie Ryan and directed by Mike Mills, won this year’s Golden Frog. The film, which tells the story of a radio journalist driving between American cities with his nine-year-old nephew Jesse, enchanted jurors with its black-and-white imagery, one of several top contenders in monochrome.
Ryan, praised for his “precise and humble eye” and “cinema that touches the soul,” accepted via video from a film set in Hungary, calling “C’mon C’mon” a “small film,” made just prior to the Covid pandemic by a crew “traveling around like a circus.”
Buzz built early on during the fest for Joel Coen’s “The Tragedy of Macbeth,” shot by Bruno Delbonnel,...
“C’mon C’mon,” shot by Robbie Ryan and directed by Mike Mills, won this year’s Golden Frog. The film, which tells the story of a radio journalist driving between American cities with his nine-year-old nephew Jesse, enchanted jurors with its black-and-white imagery, one of several top contenders in monochrome.
Ryan, praised for his “precise and humble eye” and “cinema that touches the soul,” accepted via video from a film set in Hungary, calling “C’mon C’mon” a “small film,” made just prior to the Covid pandemic by a crew “traveling around like a circus.”
Buzz built early on during the fest for Joel Coen’s “The Tragedy of Macbeth,” shot by Bruno Delbonnel,...
- 11/20/2021
- by Will Tizard
- Variety Film + TV
The 29th edition of the EnergaCamerimage Film Festival, one of the world’s leading events dedicated to cinematography, returned to fully live status Saturday amid tributes to the power of the image and an homage to the life and work of cinematographer Philippe Rousselot.
The Dp for “A River Runs Through It” and “Dangerous Liaisons” commended his fellow cinematographers for work that transcends culture, border and languages.
Welcoming an audience made up of many of the most celebrated DPs working today, fest director Marek Zydowicz offered historical context at the Jordanki cultural center in the Gothic Polish city of Torun.
Pointing out that “after plagues come a renaissance in art,” he shared with the audience an image of the Beautiful Madonna of Torun, a revolutionary work of sculpture created amid the current of artistic expression that followed the plague of the 1300s.
And again, he told the audience, after the Spanish Flu of 1918 killed millions,...
The Dp for “A River Runs Through It” and “Dangerous Liaisons” commended his fellow cinematographers for work that transcends culture, border and languages.
Welcoming an audience made up of many of the most celebrated DPs working today, fest director Marek Zydowicz offered historical context at the Jordanki cultural center in the Gothic Polish city of Torun.
Pointing out that “after plagues come a renaissance in art,” he shared with the audience an image of the Beautiful Madonna of Torun, a revolutionary work of sculpture created amid the current of artistic expression that followed the plague of the 1300s.
And again, he told the audience, after the Spanish Flu of 1918 killed millions,...
- 11/14/2021
- by Will Tizard
- Variety Film + TV
The 28th EnergaCamerimage International Film Festival this year found itself – like many fests worldwide – saddled with sobering restrictions, in this case added to the already daunting agenda of getting the globally feted cinematography event fully up to speed only a year after moving back to its original location in Torun, Poland.
Festival director Marek Zydowicz reflects on the lessons learned by the last-minute changes imposed for public health reasons and on the opportunities he hopes to grow out of the experience in both the digital and real-world realms.
You’ve said the TV Pilots Competition is of particular importance in the industry. Was it planned with that role in mind?
Our First Look – TV Pilots Competition is the most dynamically developing segment of the festival. TV series as a whole are currently the most popular cinematic form of the modern world. They are with us every day, their protagonists visit our homes daily.
Festival director Marek Zydowicz reflects on the lessons learned by the last-minute changes imposed for public health reasons and on the opportunities he hopes to grow out of the experience in both the digital and real-world realms.
You’ve said the TV Pilots Competition is of particular importance in the industry. Was it planned with that role in mind?
Our First Look – TV Pilots Competition is the most dynamically developing segment of the festival. TV series as a whole are currently the most popular cinematic form of the modern world. They are with us every day, their protagonists visit our homes daily.
- 11/27/2020
- by Will Tizard
- Variety Film + TV
Indie ethos, costume drama and rich fantasy won the day at the world’s top cinematography event, EnergaCamerimage Film Festival, on Saturday, with Joshua James Richards’ naturalistic filming in Chloé Zhao’s “Nomadland” taking the Golden Frog plus Fipresci jury honors. The chronicle of life on the rough edges of America’s society among retirees living on the road in trailers, based on Jessica Bruder’s nonfiction book “Nomadland: Surviving in the Twenty-First Century,” is considered a strong Oscars contender.
The 28th edition of Camerimage also wrapped with its award to an actor of unique visual sensitivity for Johnny Depp, whose Japan-set war correspondent story “Minamata,” filmed by Benoit Delhomme, screened at the fest. Depp said in a letter to the fest that shooting with the celebrated Dp was “a sort of dance” encouraged by director Andrew Levitas, who “encouraged us to explore.”
Fest president Marek Zydowicz described the fest...
The 28th edition of Camerimage also wrapped with its award to an actor of unique visual sensitivity for Johnny Depp, whose Japan-set war correspondent story “Minamata,” filmed by Benoit Delhomme, screened at the fest. Depp said in a letter to the fest that shooting with the celebrated Dp was “a sort of dance” encouraged by director Andrew Levitas, who “encouraged us to explore.”
Fest president Marek Zydowicz described the fest...
- 11/21/2020
- by Will Tizard
- Variety Film + TV
The EnergaCamerimage film fest has long campaigned for a permanent complex with state-of-the-art screening technology, broadcast facilities and a year-round education role utilizing top cinematography tools with space for classes on all aspects of filmmaking for emerging directors of photography and their colleagues.
Leading the charge on launching that project is Kazik Suwala, the longtime partner of fest director Marek Zydowicz, who is coordinating a small army of organizers as they lay out plans for the European Film Center, expected to go online in 2025. This year’s commitment from the Polish government and the city of Torun to a budget of $155 million has put the project, expected to be a major media player in Poland, on the fast track.
How did the backing finally come together for this ambitious project and how will it complement the existing fest center space?
The Polish government has agreed to grant $103 million for the...
Leading the charge on launching that project is Kazik Suwala, the longtime partner of fest director Marek Zydowicz, who is coordinating a small army of organizers as they lay out plans for the European Film Center, expected to go online in 2025. This year’s commitment from the Polish government and the city of Torun to a budget of $155 million has put the project, expected to be a major media player in Poland, on the fast track.
How did the backing finally come together for this ambitious project and how will it complement the existing fest center space?
The Polish government has agreed to grant $103 million for the...
- 10/26/2020
- by Will Tizard
- Variety Film + TV
Europe’s leading celebration of cinematography, the EnergaCamerimage Film Festival, based in Torun, Poland, kicks off its 28th edition Nov. 14 in hybrid form, but with as much glitz and glam as ever, fest director Marek Zydowicz tells Variety.
Having moved back last year to the historic, Gothic-spired city where it was founded, the festival plans to run its trademark showcase of the latest filmmaking technology in online 3D form this year, but will open with live appearances by Viggo Mortensen, as director and lead actor, and cinematographer Marcel Zyskind kicking things off with their intimate father-son drama “Falling,” screening at the Jordanki fest center.
Zydowicz and Kazik Suwala have recently secured funding for a much grander festival center, featuring year-round film studies and studios, the European Film Center, which Suwala heads. For now, Zydowicz says, Camerimage will continue its focus on outstanding lensing, keeping up the tradition that has made...
Having moved back last year to the historic, Gothic-spired city where it was founded, the festival plans to run its trademark showcase of the latest filmmaking technology in online 3D form this year, but will open with live appearances by Viggo Mortensen, as director and lead actor, and cinematographer Marcel Zyskind kicking things off with their intimate father-son drama “Falling,” screening at the Jordanki fest center.
Zydowicz and Kazik Suwala have recently secured funding for a much grander festival center, featuring year-round film studies and studios, the European Film Center, which Suwala heads. For now, Zydowicz says, Camerimage will continue its focus on outstanding lensing, keeping up the tradition that has made...
- 10/26/2020
- by Will Tizard
- Variety Film + TV
The festival says is has secured $160m in state and regional support.
Marek Zidowicz, director of art and cinematography festival Camerimage, brought the event back to its birthplace of Torun in Poland for this year’s 27th edition (November 9-16).
It was a key part of his efforts to establish a permanent cultural centre in the historic town to act as both an artistic space and production studio while providing a permanent home for the festival. The Polish event launched in the city in 1993 but – for political and financial reasons – it was staged in Lodz from 2000-2009 and Bydgoszcz from...
Marek Zidowicz, director of art and cinematography festival Camerimage, brought the event back to its birthplace of Torun in Poland for this year’s 27th edition (November 9-16).
It was a key part of his efforts to establish a permanent cultural centre in the historic town to act as both an artistic space and production studio while providing a permanent home for the festival. The Polish event launched in the city in 1993 but – for political and financial reasons – it was staged in Lodz from 2000-2009 and Bydgoszcz from...
- 11/15/2019
- by 1100613¦Tiffany Pritchard¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
The festival says is has secured $160m in state and regional support.
Marek Zidowicz, director of art and cinematography festival Camerimage, brought the event back to its birthplace of Torun in Poland for this year’s 27th edition (November 9-16).
It was a key part of his efforts to establish a permanent cultural centre in the historic town to act as both an artistic space and production studio while providing a permanent home for the festival. The Polish event launched in the city in 1993 but - for political and financial reasons - it was staged in Lodz from 2000-2009 and...
Marek Zidowicz, director of art and cinematography festival Camerimage, brought the event back to its birthplace of Torun in Poland for this year’s 27th edition (November 9-16).
It was a key part of his efforts to establish a permanent cultural centre in the historic town to act as both an artistic space and production studio while providing a permanent home for the festival. The Polish event launched in the city in 1993 but - for political and financial reasons - it was staged in Lodz from 2000-2009 and...
- 11/15/2019
- by 1100613¦Tiffany Pritchard¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
It's official: The international cinematography festival Camerimage is moving to Torun, Poland. The 27th edition is set to be held Nov. 9-16 in the historic city.
Additionally, the festival is in talks with the city of Torun's Ministry of Culture about potentially building a permanent Camerimage festival center.
Camerimage had been held in Bydgoszcz, Poland, from 2010 to 2018, but during the closing ceremony of last year's event, founder and festival director Marek Zydowicz revealed that it was looking to move as early as 2019. He said the city of Bydgoszcz had cut the fest's funding by ...
Additionally, the festival is in talks with the city of Torun's Ministry of Culture about potentially building a permanent Camerimage festival center.
Camerimage had been held in Bydgoszcz, Poland, from 2010 to 2018, but during the closing ceremony of last year's event, founder and festival director Marek Zydowicz revealed that it was looking to move as early as 2019. He said the city of Bydgoszcz had cut the fest's funding by ...
It's official: The international cinematography festival Camerimage is moving to Torun, Poland. The 27th edition is set to be held Nov. 9-16 in the historic city.
Additionally, the festival is in talks with the city of Torun's Ministry of Culture about potentially building a permanent Camerimage festival center.
Camerimage had been held in Bydgoszcz, Poland, from 2010 to 2018, but during the closing ceremony of last year's event, founder and festival director Marek Zydowicz revealed that it was looking to move as early as 2019. He said the city of Bydgoszcz had cut the fest's funding by ...
Additionally, the festival is in talks with the city of Torun's Ministry of Culture about potentially building a permanent Camerimage festival center.
Camerimage had been held in Bydgoszcz, Poland, from 2010 to 2018, but during the closing ceremony of last year's event, founder and festival director Marek Zydowicz revealed that it was looking to move as early as 2019. He said the city of Bydgoszcz had cut the fest's funding by ...
Awards in the four affected categories are back in the ceremony TV broadcast.
Facing a growing tide of industry complaint over its plan to present four awards during ad breaks in this month’s Oscar broadcast, the Us Academy has reversed its decision.
In a brief statement issued on Friday (15) after a meeting with representatives of the American Society of Cinematographers (Asc) on Thursday (14) evening, the Academy board said: “The Academy has heard the feedback from its membership regarding the Oscar presentation of four awards - Cinematography, Film Editing, Live Action Short, and Makeup and Hairstyling. All Academy Awards will be presented without edits,...
Facing a growing tide of industry complaint over its plan to present four awards during ad breaks in this month’s Oscar broadcast, the Us Academy has reversed its decision.
In a brief statement issued on Friday (15) after a meeting with representatives of the American Society of Cinematographers (Asc) on Thursday (14) evening, the Academy board said: “The Academy has heard the feedback from its membership regarding the Oscar presentation of four awards - Cinematography, Film Editing, Live Action Short, and Makeup and Hairstyling. All Academy Awards will be presented without edits,...
- 2/16/2019
- by John Hazelton
- ScreenDaily
Awards in the four affected categories are back in the ceremony TV broadcast.
Facing a growing tide of industry complaint over its plan to present four awards during ad breaks in this month’s Oscar broadcast, the Us Academy has reversed its decision.
In a brief statement issued on Friday (15) after a meeting with representatives of the American Society of Cinematographers (Asc) on Thursday (14) evening, the Academy board said: “The Academy has heard the feedback from its membership regarding the Oscar presentation of four awards - Cinematography, Film Editing, Live Action Short, and Makeup and Hairstyling. All Academy Awards will be presented without edits,...
Facing a growing tide of industry complaint over its plan to present four awards during ad breaks in this month’s Oscar broadcast, the Us Academy has reversed its decision.
In a brief statement issued on Friday (15) after a meeting with representatives of the American Society of Cinematographers (Asc) on Thursday (14) evening, the Academy board said: “The Academy has heard the feedback from its membership regarding the Oscar presentation of four awards - Cinematography, Film Editing, Live Action Short, and Makeup and Hairstyling. All Academy Awards will be presented without edits,...
- 2/16/2019
- by John Hazelton
- ScreenDaily
Awards in the four affected categories are back in the ceremony TV broadcast.
Facing a growing tide of industry complaint over its plan to present four awards during ad breaks in this month’s Oscar broadcast, the Us Academy has reversed its decision.
In a brief statement issued on Friday (15) after a meeting with representatives of the American Society of Cinematographers (Asc) on Thursday (14) evening, the Academy board said: “The Academy has heard the feedback from its membership regarding the Oscar presentation of four awards - Cinematography, Film Editing, Live Action Short, and Makeup and Hairstyling. All Academy Awards will be presented without edits,...
Facing a growing tide of industry complaint over its plan to present four awards during ad breaks in this month’s Oscar broadcast, the Us Academy has reversed its decision.
In a brief statement issued on Friday (15) after a meeting with representatives of the American Society of Cinematographers (Asc) on Thursday (14) evening, the Academy board said: “The Academy has heard the feedback from its membership regarding the Oscar presentation of four awards - Cinematography, Film Editing, Live Action Short, and Makeup and Hairstyling. All Academy Awards will be presented without edits,...
- 2/16/2019
- by John Hazelton
- ScreenDaily
Cold War, Roma also win awards.
The Fortress cinematographer Ji-yong Kim won the Golden Frog in main competition at Camerimage, the international film festival for the art of cinematography.
Scroll down for full list of winners
The 26th edition was held in Bydgoszcz, Poland from November 10 - 17.
The Fortress, directed by Dong-hyuk Hwang, tells the story of the second Manchu invasion of Korea in 1636. Ji-yong Kim was also awarded the best cinematographer award at this year’s Asian Film Awards.
Polish cinematographer Lukasz Zal won the Silver Frog for Pawel Pawlikowski’s black-and-white drama Cold War, Poland’s official foreign language Oscar entry.
The Fortress cinematographer Ji-yong Kim won the Golden Frog in main competition at Camerimage, the international film festival for the art of cinematography.
Scroll down for full list of winners
The 26th edition was held in Bydgoszcz, Poland from November 10 - 17.
The Fortress, directed by Dong-hyuk Hwang, tells the story of the second Manchu invasion of Korea in 1636. Ji-yong Kim was also awarded the best cinematographer award at this year’s Asian Film Awards.
Polish cinematographer Lukasz Zal won the Silver Frog for Pawel Pawlikowski’s black-and-white drama Cold War, Poland’s official foreign language Oscar entry.
- 11/18/2018
- by Tiffany Pritchard
- ScreenDaily
South Korean cinematographer Kim Ji-yong won the EnergaCamerimage fest top prize, the Golden Frog, on Saturday for the sweeping imagery of his Renaissance-era war story “The Fortress” by director Hwang Dong-Hyuk. Juror David Gropman, a production designer, praised the film’s “staggering beauty and epic scale.”
Poland’s own rising-star Dp Lukasz Zal won the Silver Frog for the crisp, monochrome look of period love story “Cold War” by Pawel Pawlikowski while Alfonso Cuaron, who wrote, directed and filmed the richly atmospheric black-and-white film “Roma,” named for the Mexico City neighborhood where he grew up, scored the Bronze Frog.
The prizes, handed out at the Opera Nova music hall in Bydgoszcz, Poland, capped a week of top cinematography work in 10 competitions, an experience fest director Marek Zydowicz described as a great success despite “crisis situations” during the week, which included the brief arrest of cinematographer Matthew Libatique on suspicion of assault.
Poland’s own rising-star Dp Lukasz Zal won the Silver Frog for the crisp, monochrome look of period love story “Cold War” by Pawel Pawlikowski while Alfonso Cuaron, who wrote, directed and filmed the richly atmospheric black-and-white film “Roma,” named for the Mexico City neighborhood where he grew up, scored the Bronze Frog.
The prizes, handed out at the Opera Nova music hall in Bydgoszcz, Poland, capped a week of top cinematography work in 10 competitions, an experience fest director Marek Zydowicz described as a great success despite “crisis situations” during the week, which included the brief arrest of cinematographer Matthew Libatique on suspicion of assault.
- 11/17/2018
- by Will Tizard
- Variety Film + TV
Camerimage, the international film festival for the art of cinematography that has been held in Poland for the past 26 years, is looking for a home.
The annual event — which is wildly popular with cinematographers and concluded its 26th festival Saturday — has been held in the city of Bydgoszcz since 2010, but as the awards ceremony wrapped Saturday, founder and festival director Marek Zydowicz announced that the city had cut its funding by 25 percent.
Onstage, he emphasized his commitment to the festival and urged guests, "When you go back to your cities and towns around ...
The annual event — which is wildly popular with cinematographers and concluded its 26th festival Saturday — has been held in the city of Bydgoszcz since 2010, but as the awards ceremony wrapped Saturday, founder and festival director Marek Zydowicz announced that the city had cut its funding by 25 percent.
Onstage, he emphasized his commitment to the festival and urged guests, "When you go back to your cities and towns around ...
- 11/17/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Camerimage, the international film festival for the art of cinematography that has been held in Poland for the past 26 years, is looking for a home.
The annual event — which is wildly popular with cinematographers and concluded its 26th festival Saturday — has been held in the city of Bydgoszcz since 2010, but as the awards ceremony wrapped Saturday, founder and festival director Marek Zydowicz announced that the city had cut its funding by 25 percent.
Onstage, he emphasized his commitment to the festival and urged guests, "When you go back to your cities and towns around ...
The annual event — which is wildly popular with cinematographers and concluded its 26th festival Saturday — has been held in the city of Bydgoszcz since 2010, but as the awards ceremony wrapped Saturday, founder and festival director Marek Zydowicz announced that the city had cut its funding by 25 percent.
Onstage, he emphasized his commitment to the festival and urged guests, "When you go back to your cities and towns around ...
- 11/17/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Europe’s mainstay fest for cinematography, newly rechristened EnergaCamerimage, launched its 26th edition and a week of 241 film screenings in the Polish town of Bydgoszcz on Saturday with a guest appearance by Roman Polanski.
The controversial but seminal director of classics such as “Rosemary’s Baby” and “Chinatown” took the stage to honor a longtime colleague, cinematographer Witold Sobocinski, with a lifetime achievement award for his luminous lensing. The pair, who shared stories from film school in Poland under the former communist regime, worked together in 1988 on “Frantic,” the Paris-set thriller starring Emmanuelle Seigner, now Polanski’s wife.
The master lenser also filmed “The Wedding” and the Oscar-nommed “The Promised Land,” both directed by Andrzej Wajda.
Fest director Marek Zydowicz credited Sobocinski with influencing a generation of cinematographers, noting he continues to teach at the Lodz film school that has set dozens of future directors and camera people on their professional paths.
The controversial but seminal director of classics such as “Rosemary’s Baby” and “Chinatown” took the stage to honor a longtime colleague, cinematographer Witold Sobocinski, with a lifetime achievement award for his luminous lensing. The pair, who shared stories from film school in Poland under the former communist regime, worked together in 1988 on “Frantic,” the Paris-set thriller starring Emmanuelle Seigner, now Polanski’s wife.
The master lenser also filmed “The Wedding” and the Oscar-nommed “The Promised Land,” both directed by Andrzej Wajda.
Fest director Marek Zydowicz credited Sobocinski with influencing a generation of cinematographers, noting he continues to teach at the Lodz film school that has set dozens of future directors and camera people on their professional paths.
- 11/10/2018
- by Will Tizard
- Variety Film + TV
The EnergaCamerimage fest’s main lineup, its competition for best cinematographer, covers a vast range of styles, and honors several fresh visual stylists along with many legends in the field.
As festival director Marek Zydowicz puts it, this year’s selection “was particularly tough because of the variety of visual means used to enhance the stories being told. I am still amazed of the number of possibilities modern equipment give to cinematographers to complete their vision without going to any compromise.”
With entries shot in monochrome and others “sparkling with color,” he says, “we have films presenting different points of view, cultures, ways of living.”
Those screening represent films gleaned from “quite a long, long list of films” by veteran cinematographers, “and the lesser known but truly beautiful artists of light and camera who astonished me with their visions.”
In addition, the fest’s traditional audience, consisting of a high...
As festival director Marek Zydowicz puts it, this year’s selection “was particularly tough because of the variety of visual means used to enhance the stories being told. I am still amazed of the number of possibilities modern equipment give to cinematographers to complete their vision without going to any compromise.”
With entries shot in monochrome and others “sparkling with color,” he says, “we have films presenting different points of view, cultures, ways of living.”
Those screening represent films gleaned from “quite a long, long list of films” by veteran cinematographers, “and the lesser known but truly beautiful artists of light and camera who astonished me with their visions.”
In addition, the fest’s traditional audience, consisting of a high...
- 11/10/2018
- by Will Tizard
- Variety Film + TV
The Camerimage International Festival is a unique International Film Festival devoted to the celebration and recognition of cinematography. This year it celebrates its 25th birthday. It takes place over the course of one week at the end of November annually and features multiple films and other industry events. The festival is known for its stellar reputation amongst industry professionals and attendance has grown from around 2,000 in its infancy to an audience of more than 70,000 today. Where and When was it Founded? It was founded by the Polish director Marek Zydowicz as a way to recognize the work of
A Brief History of the Camerimage Film Festival...
A Brief History of the Camerimage Film Festival...
- 10/23/2017
- by Dana Hanson-Firestone
- TVovermind.com
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Twenty-five years ago, a small group of movie enthusiasts in Torun, a city in northern Poland, decided that not enough attention was paid to cinematographers, the men and women responsible for capturing images on film. So they approached two icons of the craft — Sven Nykvist, who had shot many films for Ingmar Bergman, and Vittorio Storaro, who had worked frequently with Bernardo Bertolucci — to see if they would be willing to take part in a new film festival.
Marek Zydowicz, the founder and current director of what has become Camerimage, laid out a manifesto: "The role of...
Twenty-five years ago, a small group of movie enthusiasts in Torun, a city in northern Poland, decided that not enough attention was paid to cinematographers, the men and women responsible for capturing images on film. So they approached two icons of the craft — Sven Nykvist, who had shot many films for Ingmar Bergman, and Vittorio Storaro, who had worked frequently with Bernardo Bertolucci — to see if they would be willing to take part in a new film festival.
Marek Zydowicz, the founder and current director of what has become Camerimage, laid out a manifesto: "The role of...
- 8/29/2017
- by Carolyn Giardina
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Exclusive: The distributor has struck a North American deal with HanWay Films on Poland’s best foreign language Oscar submission.
Jerzy Skolimowski wrote and directed 11 Minutes, which premiered in Venice and earned a special mention in the Vittorio Veneto Film Festival Award.
The film follows a motley crew of people whose fates are decided after a short, mysterious interview.
The characters include a jealous husband, his sexy actress wife, a sleazy Hollywood director, a drug messenger, a disoriented young woman, an ex-con hot dog vendor, a troubled student, a high-rise window cleaner, an elderly sketch artist, a team of paramedics and a group of hungry nuns.
The cast includes Richard Dormer, Wojciech Mecwaldowski, Andrzej Chyra, Dawid Ogrodnik and Paulina Chapko.
Ewa Piaskowska produced with Skolimowski and Jeremy Thomas served as executive producer alongside Andrew Lowe, Ed Guiney, Eileen Tasca and Marek Zydowicz.
11 Minutes received its North American Premiere in Toronto.
Sundance Selects will release...
Jerzy Skolimowski wrote and directed 11 Minutes, which premiered in Venice and earned a special mention in the Vittorio Veneto Film Festival Award.
The film follows a motley crew of people whose fates are decided after a short, mysterious interview.
The characters include a jealous husband, his sexy actress wife, a sleazy Hollywood director, a drug messenger, a disoriented young woman, an ex-con hot dog vendor, a troubled student, a high-rise window cleaner, an elderly sketch artist, a team of paramedics and a group of hungry nuns.
The cast includes Richard Dormer, Wojciech Mecwaldowski, Andrzej Chyra, Dawid Ogrodnik and Paulina Chapko.
Ewa Piaskowska produced with Skolimowski and Jeremy Thomas served as executive producer alongside Andrew Lowe, Ed Guiney, Eileen Tasca and Marek Zydowicz.
11 Minutes received its North American Premiere in Toronto.
Sundance Selects will release...
- 12/21/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
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