Jury Main Competition
Dorota Szpetkowska
TV journalist, presenter, coverage and documentary author, screenwriter and director of concerts and festivals, singing competition juror, vocalist. Started her career in media in 1984 in Polish Radio and TVP Szczecin. In 1987 changed Szczecin for Warsaw and worked in TVP S.A. until 2020, making programs for channels TVP WARSZAWA, TVP1, TVP2 and TVP POLONIA. Also worked with TV4 and POLSAT. Now she is working in TVP3 Szczecin.
Kasia Zimnoch and Paweł Kleszczewski are filmmakers and visual artists duo, both graduated Faculty of Fine Arts at Mikołaj Kopernik University in Toruń. Since 2013 they make an artistic collective Konik Studio. Their films were screened on more than 100 international film festivals, receiving awards and honorable mentions. Their works are in museum and private collections. They were resident artists in Ireland, Sweden, Estonia and Germany.
Damian Romaniak
Film critic, publicist, literary scholar, Editor in Chief of culture and literature quarterly „eleWator”, Program Director of Szczecin Film Festival, Vice President of OFFicyna Association, university lecturer (teaches documentary film analisys, film criticism and film narratives), also teacher of polish language, journalism and rhetorics in a private high school. Formerly associated with independent cinema, wrote film reviews for Onet Film and Horror Online websites, hosted „Kino Konesera” in Helios multiplexes in Szczecin and Academic Film Club „Cyklino” in now non-existent Sailor’s House. Fan of film and literature meeting discussions. Hosts a regular program “In film world” at NiUS Radio
JURY Senior Topic Competition
Małgorzata Frymus
Radio journalist and film director. Born in Szczecin. Graduated Catholic University of Lublin and Łódź Film School. Journalist and publicist in Polish Radio Szczecin. Co-author of “Trochę kultury” author of “Posydeniek – audycja ukraińskiej mniejszości narodowej”, author of radio reports. Worked with Telewizja Polska in Szczecin. Made dozens of programs and tv reports. Lecturer in Szczecin University for more than 20 years.
She’s for years a part of OFFicyna Association, Zachęta Sztuki Współczesnej and Ińskie Lato Filmowe Association. Made dozens of tv reports, music videos (for Sklep z ptasimi piórami band or Professor Szyrocki’s Academy Choir in ZUT) and documentary films.
Henryk Gęsikowski
Graduated acting in Łódź Film School. In 1974, after graduating, he moved to Szczecin and stayed to this day. Started working in National Dramatic Theaters. After the theaters split, he became an actor in Contemporary Theater. Between 1983 and 1986 he was an actor in Polish Theater and then returned to Contemporary Theater. Has more that 100 roles on his account. Acted also in films, including: “07 zgłoś się “, “Ballada o ścinaniu drzewa”, “Zapis zbrodni”, ” Taxi A”, ” Miasto nocą”. Between 1989-1992 he was an artistic manager of Krypta Theater. Created along with Szczecin artists „Piwnica przy Krypcie”. Between 1992-1998 a director of Dom Kultury Środowisk Twórczych “Klub 13 Muz”. His another undertaking was Open Theater – first private theater in Szczecin. Directed dozen theater plays. Lately he was part of a Marta Łągiewska’s theater project “Minidrama, czyli spektakl na trzech aktorów i chór zza kulis” in Pleciuga Theater.
Rafał Bajena