I LOVE POLAND
(KOCHAM POLSKE)



2007, 55 min., Poland
Polish with English subtitles

DIRECTION:
Maria Zmarz-Koczanowicz, Joanna Slawinska
SCRIPT:
Maria Zmarz-Koczanowicz, Joanna Slawinska
CINEMATOGRAPHY:
Andrzej Adamczyk, Rafal Paradowski, Maciej Kalinski
EDITING:
Grazyna Gradon
SOUND:
Robert Brudzinski, Maciej Kalinski, Tadeusz Laszczewski
PRODUCED BY:
Largo Studio, TVN
PRODUCER:
Agnieszka Traczewska

In their campaign slogan, entitled "Who we are" the members of the All-Polish Youth wrote: "We are not from nowhere. We all are the members of a bigger community. The nation. We are Poles, for some it is a cliché and for us it is a fundamental truth. The basis of our identity." The All-Polish Youth fights with feminists, gays and lesbians. Their intolerance goes side by side with proudly announced attachment to Catholicism. The authors of the film are trying to answer the questions: Who are these people? What is the source of their fundamentalism?

MARIA ZMARZ-KOCZANOWICZ
Born in 1954 in Cieplice Slaskie. Obtained a degree in painting from the Academy of Fine Arts in Wroclaw (1978) and followed this up with a film directing degree from the Radio and Television Department of the University of Silesia in Katowice (1982). In 1999 she was a lecturer at the University of Buffalo (Media Studies). Documentary films are her focus, though her credits also include TV theatre productions and one feature film, "End of the World" (Kraj swiata, 1993). Her documentary filmography include "Gdanski Railway Station" (Dworzec Gdanski, 2006), "Still Alive - A Film About Krzysztof Kieslowski" (Still Alive - Film o Krzysztofie Kieslowskim, 2005), "Diary.pl" (Dziennik.pl, 2004), "Children of Revolution" (Dzieci rewolucji, 2002), "Night with General" (Noc z generalem, 2001), "Bara-Bara" (1996).

JOANNA SLAWINSKA
Sociology graduate at the University of Lodz. A press (Gazeta Wyborcza, Odglosy) and radio journalist. Since 1997 she's been working for the Polish Radio in Warsaw. She's worked with Piotr Morawski, Maciej Dejczer and Maria Zmarz-Koczanowicz on a few documentary films including "The Accused" (Oskarzeni, 2004) and "Coal" (Wegiel, 2003).

Wednesday, November 19th, 2008 at 9pm (GALLERY THEATRE)