23-07-2018

FNE at Transatlantyk 2018: Transatlantyk Festival Announces Winners

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    Joanna Kulig with Golden Ark For Best Actress Joanna Kulig with Golden Ark For Best Actress Transatlantyk Festival

    ŁODŹ: Volte directed by Monika Kotecka and Karolina Poryzała was awarded Best Short Film Transatlantyk Golden Ark Award, while Swedish/Denmark coproduction Becoming Astrid, directed by Pernille Fischer Christensen, won the Transatlantyk Distribution Award in the New Cinema Competition of the Transatlantyk Festival 2018.

    The festival screened over 200 films from more than 60 countries in Łódź from 8 to 20 July 2018. Thirty films competed in the Polish Short Film Competition.

    The Glocal Hero Award went to activist Janina Ochojska, the President of Polish Humanitarian Action.

    Diane Warren was awarded Golden Ark Independent Spirit, the Golden Ark For Best Actress went to Joanna Kulig, while Sally Potter received the honorary FIPRESCI 93 Platinum Award.

    Every year, the interdisciplinary festival founded by well-known film and theatre composer Jan A.P. Kaczmarek embraces new and challenging works in film, music and art.

    FULL LIST OF WINNERS:

    New Cinema Competition:

    Transatlantyk Distribution Award:
    Becoming Astrid (Sweden, Denmark)
    Directed by Pernille Fischer Christensen

    Young Film Critics Award:
    Sofia (Maroko)
    Directed by Meryem Benm'Barek-Aloïsi

    Polish Short Film Competition:

    Transatlantyk Golden Ark for Best Short Fiction Film 1st Prize:
    Volte /Wolta (Poland)
    Directed by Monika Kotecka and Karolina Poryzała

    Transatlantyk Golden Ark for Best Short Fiction Film 2nd Prize:
    60 Kilos of Nothing /60 kilo niczego (Poland)
    Directed by Piotr Domalewski

    Transatlantyk Golden Ark for Best Short Fiction Film 3nd Prize:
    III (Poland)
    Directed by Marta Pajek

    Transatlantyk Golden Ark for Best Short Fiction Film Special Mention:
    Squaring the Circle/Kwadratura Koła (Poland)
    Directed by Karolina Specht

    Transatlantyk VR SpaceTime Award:
    Shehani Fernando for Limbo

    Transatlantyk VR SpaceTime Special Mentions:
    Ricardo Laganaro for Step to the Line
    Jessie van Vreden and Anke Teunissen for The Last Chair

    Transatlantyk Instant Composition Contest™:

    Transatlantyk Instant Composer 1st First Prize:
    Dominika Czajkowska 

    Transatlantyk Instant Composer 2nd Prize:
    Kamil Zawiślak 

    Transatlantyk Instant Composer 3rd Prize:
    Adam Lemańczyk 

    Transatlantyk Instant Composer Special Mentions:
    Leonard Gołąb
    Ginte Preisaite

    Golden Ark for the Best Music of the Year:
    Dario Marianelli for Darkest Hour (US, UK)
    Directed by Joe Wright

    Transatlantyk Best Polish Young Composer 2018:
    Radzimir Jimek Dębski for Panic Attack / Atak Paniki (Poland)
    Directed by Paweł Maślona
    Produced by Akson Studio
    Supported by the Polish Film Institute
    and
    Art of Love / Sztuka kochania( Poland)
    Directed by Maria Sadowska
    Produced by Watchout Productions
    Coproduced by TVN S.A., Orange S.A.Agora S.A.
    Supported by the Polish Film Institute

    Transatlantyk Glocal Hero Award:
    Janina Ochojska

    Golden Ark Independent Spirit Award:
    Diane Warren

    Golden Ark for Best Actress:
    Joanna Kulig

    FIPRESCI 93 Platinum Award:
    Sally Potter

    Transatlantyk High Note Award:
    Annette Insdorf