Polish Film Institute Awards are the only Polish awards granted in recognition of the achievements in the field of Polish cinema promotion. This year’s awards will be announced at a special gala during the 42nd Polish Film Festival in Gdynia (18-23 September). "Soul Seismograph. Cinema according to Maria Kornatowska"”, a joint publication of our School's Publishing House and the Lodz Film Museum published under the editorial supervision of Prof. Tadeusz Szczepański, has been nominated for PISF Award in the category BOOKS ON FILM.

“Soul Seismograph” consists of Maria Kornatowska’s essays, articles, critical film reviews and interviews. The unusual Lodz Film School lecturer Maria Kornatowska is remembered in the book by: Krystyna Serejska-Olszer, Agnieszka Holland, Jolanta Dylewska, Annette Insdorf, Grażyna Torbicka, Małgorzata Kałuża, Elżbieta Wittlin-Lipton, Tadeusz Szczepański, Lech Majewski, Sławomir Grünberg, Andrzej Luter, Tadeusz Sobolewski, Andrzej Kołodyński, Gabriele Iacovone, Filip Bajon, Mariusz Grzegorzek, Mitko Panov, Zbigniew Rybczyński, Grzegorz Królikiewicz, Richard Pena, Mariusz Wilczyński, Zbigniew Wichłacz.

"Maria Kornatowska wrote many books on cinema including an excellent monograph on Felinni (multiple publication). She was an expert on Italian, American and Polish cinema in which she especially valued the films of Wojciech Jerzy Has. The texts covering all areas of Maria’s film passions and interests have been collected in this book including essays and interviews on cinematography, as well as texts on films which were close to her and her personal preferences. A separate part of the book represent memories of Maria’s Polish, American and Italian friends from Lodz, New York and Warsaw, her former students who nowadays are known film-makers, artists and critics. Each of them has fond memories of her abundant and generous personality, because each encounter with Maria was an exciting and memorable experience. She wore eccentric clothes, big rings and other accessories which together with her red hair enhanced her own original style. She had a very special tone of voice and the way of speaking which in combination with her outfits made her look and sound as a film character who has just stepped from a Fellini’s film-set who however was about to return to the screen to stay there forever. She was so, as Americans would say, bigger than life" – writes prof. Tadeusz Szczepański in the introduction to the book.

The book can be purchased on line at: http://ksiegarnia.filmschool.lodz.pl/sejsmograf-duszy-kino-wedlug-marii-kornatowskiej-pl-161,product....

Complete list of nominees: http://www.pisf.pl/aktualnosci/wiadomosci/nominowani-do-10-edycji-nagrod-pisf