Klara Kochańska’s film, as the only Polish film amongst the Student Academy Awards finalists, will compete with 6 other films in the Foreign Narrative category. This year, as many as 1,749 films entered the Student Oscar competition.

The Academy established the Student Academy Awards in 1972. Each year, the Academy grants awards in four categories: animated film, documentary, fiction film and alternative film. Despite the same categories American students enter separate competition from foreign ones. Past Student Academy Award winners have gone on to receive 46 Oscar nominations and have won or shared eight awards. They include, among others, Robert Zemeckis and Spike Lee.

The film based on the screenplay written by Klara Kochanska and Kasper Bajon was shot by Zuzanna Kernbach, our school’s cinematography graduate. The main part in the film has been played by Julia Kijowska. The film’s artistic supervisors were: Robert Gliński, Wojciech Marczewski and Jerzy Zieliński. During the 31st Warsaw Film Festival the film was pronounced the Best Short Film and received the Short Grand Prix. The film "Tenants" was also awarded The Golden Prize for the Best Foreign Film at the Global Chinese Universities Student Film and Television Festival in Hong Kong. It was also screened at the Karlovy Vary Festival during which Klara participated in the Future Frames Program whose aim was to draw attention of film industry representatives to young talented film-makers.

More info on the Student Academy Awards at: http://www.oscars.org/saa
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 2-4 – stills from the film "Tenants"