WARSAW: Kinga Dębska, director of box office hit These Daughters of Mine, started shooting her new project The God's Plan on 14 February 2017. This story about love has its premiere already set for Valentine’s Day 2018.
BERLIN: Producers of The Adventures of the Mathematician directed by Thorsten Klein announced during the 67th Berlinale IFF, that the leading role of prominent Polish mathematician Stanislaw Ulam will be played by Polish actor Jakub Gierszał.
WARSAW: CANAL+ will be the first official private broadcaster for the Polish Film Awards Polish Eagles, which has its 19th gala edition on 20 March 2017. CANAL+ stepped in after TVP did not express an interest in presenting the event exclusively.
WARSAW: Art of Loving, a biopic of the famous Polish sexologist Michalina Wisłocka, is on track to be the top Polish title in 2017 with over 800,000 admissions in the first two weeks in distribution.
WARSAW: VoD service provider Showmax will premiere in Poland on 15 February 2017.
Polish cinema had another strong year in 2016, with record breaking box office results, international success of feature and documentary films, worldwide distribution for domestic titles, as well as a new fund supporting minority coproduction and a promise of tax breaks from the new government.
WARSAW: The Polish box office hit of 2016, Volhynia directed by Wojciech Smarzowski, got the most nods at the 2016 Polish Film Award - The Eagles nominations.
WARSAW: Polish Director and producer Leszek Kopeć will have a double role as both Festival Director and Programme Director of the Gdynia Film Festival, the most important event for Polish cinema.
WARSAW: The Polish government is working on a bill that would decrease the monopoly of foreign companies in the private media sector and a separate project that will increase the revenues for public media from the citizens.
WARSAW: Polish filmmakers gathered 13,300 EUR / 58,000 PLN for charity during an event put up by the Polish Film Institute to support the Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity (WOŚP). The highest bid of 1,900 EUR / 8,600 PLN went to a private dinner with Agnieszka Holland.
