MARIA ZMARZ-KOCZANOWICZ
The author of several dozen documentaries ( in most of them she wrote the screenplays), TV Theatre performances and a feature film. A graduate of painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Wroclaw and directing at the Radio and Television Faculty of the University of Silesia. Professor at the Łódz Film School. Recent films: “Michnik – bądź realistą, chcej niemożliwego” (2014), ” Gruba”. (awards: Festival” Człowiek w zagrożeniu” , Złote Grona – Łagów Film Festival), ” Notatki z życia – Edward Żebrowski” (2018; awards: Krakow Film Festival, Festival” Człowiek w zagrożeniu” ), “Guczo” (2020; Złote Grona – Łagów Film Festival).
ADAM OĽHA
Graduate of FAMU in Prague (2011, Documentary Department). His graduation film The New Life of the Family Album (2012) was selected for Hot Docs IFF in Toronto, Karlovy Vary IFF and many other film festivals, winning several awards (Audience Award at Jihlava IFF, Associated Press Focal International Award, Tatra Bank Award). He works as a digital and film camera operator on documentaries. In 2020, he completed the film portrait of Jan Švankmajer, The Alchemical Furnace, together with Jan Daňhel, which premiered at the Rotterdam Film Festival.
MARCIN SAUTER
Photographer. Film director and cinematographer of dozens of documentaries and feature films. Member of Association of Polish Artists Photographers and the Polish Film Academy. Long-time lecturer at Wajda School. Co-founder of the idea of the Bydgoszcz Film Chronicle. Winner of many major awards at film festivals around the world, including the winner of the Golden Frog at the Camerimage festival, the main prize at the IDFA festival in Amsterdam, the festival in Lisbon, Paris, Vilnius, Dublin, Mexico City, Kosovo, Leipzig, Chicago, Poznan, Krakow.