WERONIKA PŁACZEK
Organizer of cultural activities, chief of the Animocje International Animated Film Festival. Since 2010 associated with the City Cultural Center in Bydgoszcz, where as a specialist she coordinates projects related to animated films and deals with the organization and coordination of music and interdisciplinary events. She appears as a juror at festivals (Opolskie Lamy, ReAnima Festival, StopTrik Festival), selects films (Zoom-Zbliżenia Festival, Lublin Film Festival, IAFF Animocje), and curates screenings (Animocje, Fonomo Music & Film Festival, StopTrik Festival). Member of the board of the Nowa Sztuka Wet Music Foundation. She collaborates with the Mózg Foundation – Foundation of Contemporary Music and Interdisciplinary Forms and other entities operating within the arts and culture.
SZYMON SZUL
Szymon Szul is a PhD student at the University of Lodz Doctoral School of Humanities. He is a member of the Polish Animation Research Group and a scholarship holder in the project “Animation Studios in Gottwaldov and Łódź (1945/47-1990) – A Comparative Collective Biography” (2021-2024). His research focuses on Polish animation, particularly the activities of the “Se-Ma-For” Studio of Small Film Forms. His scholarly interests include production studies on Polish animated series and the international collaborations of Polish animation studios during the communist period. He conducts research on the works of Stanisław Lenartowicz, Stefan Schabenbeck, Tadeusz Wilkosz, and Danuta Adamska-Strus. He is a co-author of the forthcoming monograph The Social Worlds of the Se-Ma-For Studio of Small Film Forms in Łódź (2025). His publications appear in Panoptikum, Pleograf. Historyczno-Filmowy Kwartalnik Filmoteki Narodowej and Journal of Open Humanities Data. He is also the author of the locative narratives The Story of One Bullet and Double Vision.
