The first season of the show was selected for the Canneseries Short Form Competition. A group of established fiction writers, two actors and a story that spans only a few minutes are the main ingredients of the Canal+ Poland original production The Writers. Short Series. After a successful first season, which was nominated for the Short Form Competition Award during the third edition of Canneseries, the second instalment is already in production. “The nomination shows that freshness and playing with form attracts attention and proves we are ‘doing it right’. I am very glad that, regardless of the pandemic, we were able to create new episodes of the series,” said Alicja Gancarz, movie channels director at Canal+ Poland. The second season will consist of nine episodes, helmed by Paweł Maślona (Panic Attack), and penned by Łukasz Orbitowski, Ziemowit Szczerek, Grażyna Plebanek, Patrycja Pustkowiak, Michał Walczak, Weronika Murek, Olga Hund, Małgorzata.
- 11/19/2020
- Cineuropa - The Best of European Cinema
Six emerging directors will be mentored at new event.
Warsaw-based sales outfit New Europe is launching a new talent initiative in a bid to help emerging filmmakers make the next steps in their careers.
New Europe Warsaw Sessions (24-27 September) will be a closed event where six directors, picked by New Europe, will meet established decision-makers in a series of workshops and will also receive individual mentoring.
Participants at the inaugural edition are: Jan P. Matuszyński, Agnieszka Smoczyńska, Paweł Maślona, Laura Moss, Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurðsson and Jeppe Ronde.
The six will be mentored by Mike Goodridge and Julia Godzinskaya.
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Warsaw-based sales outfit New Europe is launching a new talent initiative in a bid to help emerging filmmakers make the next steps in their careers.
New Europe Warsaw Sessions (24-27 September) will be a closed event where six directors, picked by New Europe, will meet established decision-makers in a series of workshops and will also receive individual mentoring.
Participants at the inaugural edition are: Jan P. Matuszyński, Agnieszka Smoczyńska, Paweł Maślona, Laura Moss, Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurðsson and Jeppe Ronde.
The six will be mentored by Mike Goodridge and Julia Godzinskaya.
Also...
- 9/18/2018
- by Tom Grater
- ScreenDaily
Jan Naszewski’s Warsaw-based sales outfit New Europe Film Sales has announced multiple sales for Paweł Maślona’s black comedy “Panic Attack,” which had its international premiere this week in Karlovy Vary Film Festival’s main competition.
The film, which was a box-office hit in Poland this year, has been sold to Greece (Neo), Lithuania (Kino Pavasaris), Iceland (Bio Paradis), and Central and Eastern Europe (HBO Central Europe). Further deals, including U.K., are under negotiation. The film is also attracting interest from producers looking to remake it for their local markets, according to the sales agency.
“Panic Attack” comprises six stories about ordinary people put in extreme situations, which cause them to experience a panic attack. “We experience a roller coaster of events: a woman meets her two exes during one night, a couple picks the worst seat on an airplane, a young girl risks having her girlfriends expose her as a porn star,...
The film, which was a box-office hit in Poland this year, has been sold to Greece (Neo), Lithuania (Kino Pavasaris), Iceland (Bio Paradis), and Central and Eastern Europe (HBO Central Europe). Further deals, including U.K., are under negotiation. The film is also attracting interest from producers looking to remake it for their local markets, according to the sales agency.
“Panic Attack” comprises six stories about ordinary people put in extreme situations, which cause them to experience a panic attack. “We experience a roller coaster of events: a woman meets her two exes during one night, a couple picks the worst seat on an airplane, a young girl risks having her girlfriends expose her as a porn star,...
- 7/5/2018
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Modern, bourgeois life is stressful, but a lot of the stress is of our own petty devising, according to Polish first-time feature director Paweł Maślona’s energetic, well-crafted, but ultimately rather empty “Panic Attack.” A Warsaw-set ensemble comedy in which six separate storylines showcase a selection of Varsovians brought to near nervous collapse trying to maintain self-serving deceptions, it should play well at home and to local/regional audiences eager for depictions of contemporary life in Eastern Europe that are less dour than those usually afforded by the festival circuit. But while the film is an attractive calling-card for Maślona, its proudly commercial sensibilities make “Panic Attack” an atypical choice in the Karlovy Vary competition lineup, and its glibness may leave international art-house viewers feeling shortchanged.
Comparisons with Damián Szifron’s similarly antic and tragicomic “Wild Tales” are inevitable, but Maślona’s movie is in some ways the more ambitious.
Comparisons with Damián Szifron’s similarly antic and tragicomic “Wild Tales” are inevitable, but Maślona’s movie is in some ways the more ambitious.
- 7/5/2018
- by Jessica Kiang
- Variety Film + TV
Polish Days takes place during the New Horizons International Film Festival in Wroclaw.
New films by Bartosz Konopka, Jan Komasa and Leszek Dawid are among the line-up of 25 completed films, works in progress and projects to be presented at the sixth edition of the Polish Days (July 30 - August 1) during the New Horizons International Film Festival in Wroclaw, Poland.
Konopka’s The Mute, which was presented as a work in progress at last year’s Polish Days, is among five completed films being shown in closed industry screenings to international sales agents, distributors, film funders and festival programmers.
The further...
New films by Bartosz Konopka, Jan Komasa and Leszek Dawid are among the line-up of 25 completed films, works in progress and projects to be presented at the sixth edition of the Polish Days (July 30 - August 1) during the New Horizons International Film Festival in Wroclaw, Poland.
Konopka’s The Mute, which was presented as a work in progress at last year’s Polish Days, is among five completed films being shown in closed industry screenings to international sales agents, distributors, film funders and festival programmers.
The further...
- 7/4/2018
- by Martin Blaney
- ScreenDaily
Ten world premieres are among the 12 films competing for the Crystal Globe at Central and Eastern Europe’s premier film festival, Karlovy Vary, which runs June 29-July 7. The competition titles include leading Romanian filmmaker Radu Jude’s “I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians,” an exploration of nationality and national trauma; Argentine Ana Katz’s family drama “Sueno Florianopolis”; and Canadian filmmaker Sebastien Pilote’s “The Fireflies Are Gone,” the story of a rebellious teen relationship.
A standout performance by Caleb Landry Jones dominates Peter Brunner’s dark Austro-American drama “To the Night,” while two filmmakers returning to Karlovy Vary present “noticeably more poetic new films”: Russia’s Ivan Tverdovsky (“Zoology”) will screen “Jumpman,” while Israeli director Joseph Madmony brings his third premiere to West Bohemia, the drama “Redemption,” co-directed by cinematographer Boaz Y. Yakov.
Czech Republic-based filmmaker Olmo Omerzu will screen a road movie centered on boyhood friendship,...
A standout performance by Caleb Landry Jones dominates Peter Brunner’s dark Austro-American drama “To the Night,” while two filmmakers returning to Karlovy Vary present “noticeably more poetic new films”: Russia’s Ivan Tverdovsky (“Zoology”) will screen “Jumpman,” while Israeli director Joseph Madmony brings his third premiere to West Bohemia, the drama “Redemption,” co-directed by cinematographer Boaz Y. Yakov.
Czech Republic-based filmmaker Olmo Omerzu will screen a road movie centered on boyhood friendship,...
- 6/29/2018
- by Will Tizard
- Variety Film + TV
Variety has been given exclusive access to the trailer for Paweł Maślona’s satirical comedy “Panic Attack,” which has its international premiere in competition at Karlovy Vary Film Festival.
The film presents six stories about “ordinary people put in extreme situations, which cause them to experience a panic attack,” according to a statement. “We experience a rollercoaster of events: a woman meets her two exes during one night, a couple picks the worst seat on an airplane, a young girl risks having her girlfriends expose her as a porn star, a bride gives birth at her own wedding, a teenager gets stoned for the first time while a young man has to beg his weird mother to save his life’s work.”
New Europe Film Sales is handling world sales. The film was produced by Jan Kwieciński for Poland’s Akson Studio, with support from the Polish Film Institute.
Karlovy...
The film presents six stories about “ordinary people put in extreme situations, which cause them to experience a panic attack,” according to a statement. “We experience a rollercoaster of events: a woman meets her two exes during one night, a couple picks the worst seat on an airplane, a young girl risks having her girlfriends expose her as a porn star, a bride gives birth at her own wedding, a teenager gets stoned for the first time while a young man has to beg his weird mother to save his life’s work.”
New Europe Film Sales is handling world sales. The film was produced by Jan Kwieciński for Poland’s Akson Studio, with support from the Polish Film Institute.
Karlovy...
- 6/27/2018
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
While I do not understand a single word spoken in the trailer for Pawel Maslona's upcoming Polish feature Panic Attack (Atak Paniki) there is absolutely zero problem understanding exactly what is happening. The premise is a simple one with the film following a disparate group of characters as they move from peace to panic and the trailer here is a marvel of spiky energy and playful visuals. There's an awful lot to love here - including an appearance from Danish star Nicolas Bro as a sweaty air passenger - as Maslona lays out his tales of urban angst and I can only hope for a chance to see the full feature soon. Check out the teaser below....
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- 11/23/2017
- Screen Anarchy
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