“TOWER. A BRIGHT DAY” showcasing in Cannes!
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18. 05. 2017. Department
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As part of the programme “New Horizons’ Polish Days Festival” Goes to Cannes” extracts from Jagoda Szelc’ debut film will be shown in a closed screening for film professionals scheduled for 23, May,

Out of the initiative of the Polish Film Institute the Festival T-Mobile, New Horizons has found itself among 10 world festivals which will showcase selected films as works-in-progress in the programme, "The Goes to Cannes". "The Goes to Cannes" will be a part of the biggest film fair, Marché du Film during the 70th Cannes International Film Festival. Among the five selected by the festival Polish films being works-in-progress there is Jagoda Szelc’s fiction debut film, “Tower. A Bright Day” produced by Indeks Film Studio at the Lodz Film School.

During the Cannes Festival, the Lodz Film School will be represented by the film’s producer, Mr Marcin Malatyński, who is also the head of international relations at the school. "The Goes to Cannes" is a programme which offers to renowned festivals the possibility to showcase a selection of works-in-progress still looking for sales agents, distributors or a festival selection.

 “Tower. A Bright Day” is the full length feature debut of Jagoda Szelc, a Wroclaw Fine Arts Academy graduate and a Lodz Film School direction student whose student films have won numerous festival prizes. The film’s artistic supervisor is Mariusz Grzegorzek, the Lodz Film School Rector. The film has been produced by the Indeks Film Studio, whose goal is to facilitate first film productions of the most talented students and graduates of the Lodz Film School. The studio was founded in 1990 by the outstanding Polish film director, Lodz film school lecturer and later the school’s rector, Wojciech Jerzy Has. At present, the Studio has been named after Wojciech Jerzy Has.

 “Tower. A Bright Day” is a film about mysterious things happening in the life of a seemingly normal family. Cast: Anna Krotoska, Małgosia Szczerbowska, Dorota Łukasiewicz –Kwietniewska, Anna Zubrzycki, Rafał Cieluch, Rafał Kwietniewski, Laila Hennessy, Ida Kwietniewska, Igor Kwietniewski. Photography: Przemysław Brynkiewicz, our school’s cinematography graduate. Art. Direction: Natalia Giza. Film Production: Indeks Film Studio, producer: Marcin Malatyński, coproducers: Lodz Film School, Centrala, Dreamsound, Heliograf, EBH. The film project is co-financed by Polish Film Institute.

 FB film profile: https://www.facebook.com/wieza.jasny.dzien/?fref=ts Indeks Film Studio website: http://www.studioindeks.pl/
 Info about the film to be found at: http://www.studioindeks.pl/mainslide/wieza-jasny-dzien-z-dotacja-pisf/