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Polish outfit Harine Films and German co-producer Heino Deckert have boarded She, the next fiction project from Polish producer-director Agnieszka Zwiefka.
The project has been developed by the European edition of The Writers Lab (TWL), the script development workshop for women and non-binary writers over 40 supported by Meryl Streep and Nicole Kidman.
“It’s amazing the support they are giving. This lab was a wonderful experience of sisterhood,” Zwiefka said. Her tutor was the Oscar-nominated Polish director Agnieszka Holland.
She is about a widowed 50 year-old woman who passes through life so seemingly unnoticed she doesn’t show up on video surveillance systems.
“There are so many women who never even dare to ask themselves ‘What do I want?’,” the director says of the themes she is exploring.
Zwiefka is writing the script together with Polish actress Jowita Budnik, whose credits include Birds Are Singing In Kigali. Budnik will play the lead
“She is a good friend and also an actress of a certain age who has realised that there are not so many parts,” the director said of her collaborator. “She felt she had to write the script herself if she was going to have a decent role and not just be a prop or a side character to the male hero.”
The Polish Film Institute is backing the project which plans to shoot next summer.
Zwiefka is at the Sarajevo Film Festival with her documentary, Runa, which was pitched in Docu Talents from the East earlier this week.
Runa is being made as a coproduction with Germany and Denmark. Zwiefka produces alongside Zofia Cujawska, MA.JA.DE’s Deckert and Zofia Kujawska from Chilli Productions. Filmproduktion and Sigrid Djekjaer from Real Lava. The film follows an Iraqi Kurdish teenager who is forced to keep her family together when her mother dies at a refugee settlement near the Polish-Belarusian border. The family fled to Europe in order to escape Isis. “When the refugee crises started at our border, we were shocked. She said that many people spent their spare time helping these refugees. The doc is currently in advanced post-production, and should be finished by the end the year. It is partly animated and “inspired by
Persepolis
” by Maryjane Stapari. Runa is a talented, experienced artist who did a lot of drawing in the refugee camp. This will be a hybrid documentary in which “pairs” of actresses will stage the conflicts of the mother and daughter from their pasts. “This film is an attempt to understand but also to play with how we both see the events from the past.” The film is in development and has Creative Europe and Polish Film Institute support inn place already.Sarajevo film festival cancels screenings as part of day of mourning for victims of triple murder
Entertainment - Media News Watch originally published at Entertainment - Media News Watch
Entertainment - Media News Watch originally published at Entertainment - Media News Watch
Polish outfit Harine Films and German co-producer Heino Deckert have boarded She, the next fiction project from Polish producer-director Agnieszka Zwiefka.
The project has been developed by the European edition of The Writers Lab (TWL), the script development workshop for women and non-binary writers over 40 supported by Meryl Streep and Nicole Kidman.
“It’s amazing the support they are giving. This lab was a wonderful experience of sisterhood,” Zwiefka said. Her tutor was the Oscar-nominated Polish director Agnieszka Holland.
She is about a widowed 50 year-old woman who passes through life so seemingly unnoticed she doesn’t show up on video surveillance systems.
“There are so many women who never even dare to ask themselves ‘What do I want?’,” the director says of the themes she is exploring.
Zwiefka is writing the script together with Polish actress Jowita Budnik, whose credits include Birds Are Singing In Kigali. Budnik will play the lead
“She is a good friend and also an actress of a certain age who has realised that there are not so many parts,” the director said of her collaborator. “She felt she had to write the script herself if she was going to have a decent role and not just be a prop or a side character to the male hero.”
The Polish Film Institute is backing the project which plans to shoot next summer.
Zwiefka is at the Sarajevo Film Festival with her documentary, Runa, which was pitched in Docu Talents from the East earlier this week.
Runa is being made as a coproduction with Germany and Denmark. Zwiefka produces alongside Zofia Cujawska, MA.JA.DE’s Deckert and Zofia Kujawska from Chilli Productions. Filmproduktion and Sigrid Djekjaer from Real Lava. The film follows an Iraqi Kurdish teenager who is forced to keep her family together when her mother dies at a refugee settlement near the Polish-Belarusian border. The family fled to Europe in order to escape Isis. “When the refugee crises started at our border, we were shocked. She said that many people spent their spare time helping these refugees. The doc is currently in advanced post-production, and should be finished by the end the year. It is partly animated and “inspired by
Persepolis
” by Maryjane Stapari. Runa is a talented, experienced artist who did a lot of drawing in the refugee camp. This will be a hybrid documentary in which “pairs” of actresses will stage the conflicts of the mother and daughter from their pasts. “This film is an attempt to understand but also to play with how we both see the events from the past.” The film is in development and has Creative Europe and Polish Film Institute support inn place already.Sarajevo film festival cancels screenings as part of day of mourning for victims of triple murder
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