17-03-2011

FESTIVALS: Krakow Lifetime Achievement for Piotr Kamler

By FNE Staff
    KRAKOW: The Krakow Film Festival (www.kff.com.pl) will give the Dragon of Dragons Award for lifetime achievement award to Piotr Kamler, a French animation director of Polish origin, and 1975 winner of the Grand Prix at Annecy Film Festival.

    Krakow Film Festival (23-29 May 2011) is one of the oldest film events dedicated to documentary, animated and short fiction films in Europe. The seven day festival will screen some 250 films from Poland and abroad.

    Piotr Kamler was born in 1936. He graduated from the graphics department at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. He debuted in 1959 with an amateur animated film Miasto (The City) before moving to Paris. Among his major works is the 1982 animated sci-fi film Chronopolis. He received the main prize of the Krakow festival in 1966, 1968, and 1973.

    The Dragon of Dragon awards will be presented on 24 May 2011.