assistant:director
An assistant director does more than just serve coffee! During the workshop, we will take a closer look at this role – one that is quite inconspicuous, but essential for the smooth running of a film set. In the theoretical part, I will talk about the duties of an assistant during pre-production and filming. We will talk about working with the director, second director (on set and in the office), as well as with members of various departments and actors. As part of the practical tasks, we will analyse scenes in terms of staging and look for common solutions to difficult situations that may arise during filming. Finally, we will try to answer the questions: can an assistant director have a creative influence on the final effect of a film, and what can the experience gained in this role give us in the next stages of our film career? The workshop lasts two days.
: location:WFDiF
The Documentary and Feature Film Studio at 21 Chełmska Street in Warsaw is a legendary institution where Polish films have been created for 75 years. It was founded in 1949, initially as a centre for documentary film production and the Polish Film Chronicle (PKF), soon becoming an important hub for feature filmmaking.
The Studio produced famous Polish documentaries and hundreds of PKF episodes. At Chełmska, the most important trends in Polish documentary cinema were born and flourished — from the first postwar productions, through the legendary “black series” and the most acclaimed documentaries of the 1960s, 70s, and 80s, to films made during the time of political transformation.
Filmmakers such as Andrzej Munk, Krzysztof Kieślowski, Jan Łomnicki, Tadeusz Makarczyński, Ludwik Perski, Maria Kwiatkowska, Władysław Ślesicki, Kazimierz Karabasz, Jerzy Hoffman, Edward Skórzewski, Marcel Łoziński, Paweł Kędzierski, Andrzej Brzozowski, Andrzej Titkow, Irena Kamieńska, and many others created their works here. The studios, laboratories, and editing rooms of the Wytwórnia have been the birthplace of iconic films by Andrzej Wajda, Jerzy Antczak, Krzysztof Zanussi, Krzysztof Kieślowski, Jerzy Hoffman, and more.
