SQUATTERS CIRCUS
(CYRK SQUATTERSÓW)



2005, 52 min., Poland
DIRECTION:
Juliet D. Golden
SCRIPT:
Juliet D. Golden
CINEMATOGRAPHY:
Grzegorz Auguścik, Sławek Panasewicz
MUSIC:
Natural Sound
EDITING:
Artur Kozak
SOUND:
Krzysztof Klimko, Paweł Marcinów
PRODUCERS:
Artur Kozak, Joanna Witkowska
PRODUCTION:
Studio K

The traveling circus of legend with stars as bright as the sun belongs to a bygone era. Today the historic streets and market squares of Europe pulsate with the magic of circus theater. With the fall of the Berlin Wall, a generation of East Europeans headed west and discovered the allure of street theater. Inspired by the artistic feats and social involvement of their West European counterparts, they are now bringing their newly-found skills and lifestyles home. They teach circus to the disabled and disadvantaged, and travel in "magic caravans" to perform for refugees and the rural poor. The film is a portrait of one such Polish group who, with the help of some friends, is bringing circus theater home to Poland.

Juliet D. Golden

Born in the United States, but has lived and worked in Poland since the beginning of the 1990's. She received her bachelor's degree in Political Science from Indiana University and her master's degree in International Relations from Columbia University. In her professional career she has worked in journalism, human resources and marketing. In Poland: former Senior Reporter for the Warsaw Business Journal, she also served on Poland's bid committee to host EXPO 2010 in Wroclaw. The Squatters' Circus is her directorial debut.

Saturday, November 18, 2006 at 10:30 pm. (Gallery Theatre)