The Jan Machulski Awards are a unique project which combines 7 Polish festivals at which the jury nominates artists who make short films in as many as 8 categories, appreciating directors, actors, but also less frequently awarded ones like screenwriters, cinematographers, editors and filmmakers of documentary and animated films.

Here are the nominated creators of films made at our School:

BEST DIRECTION category :
* Shekhar Bassi for the film DICTATOR
* Mariusz Rusiński for the film SISTER OF MINE (student of our school; the film produced at the Munk Studio)

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY category:
* Mateusz Nowak for the film WARMTH, dir. Klaudia Fortuniak
* Zuzanna Zachara-Hassairi for the film LIOSZA, dir. Miłosz Sawicki

BEST EDITING category:
* Aleksandra Rosset for the film THIS WILL NOT BE A FESTIVAL FILM, dir. Julia Orlik
* Karol Piasecki for the film POLAR BEARS, dir. Bartosz Stankiewicz
* Barbara Fronc for the film CALLS, dir. Ming-Wei Chiang
* Olga Bejm for the film DOG DAYS ARE OVER, dir. Kinga Pudełek
* Aleksandra Kasprowicz for the film BLACK WATER, dir. Joanna Różniak (Aleksandra Kasprowicz is editing student at our school, film produced at the Radio and TV Dept, at the Silesian University in Katowice)

BEST ACTRESS category:
* Ewa Skibińska & Zuzanna Lit for the film WARMTH, dir. Klaudia Fortuniak
* Irmina Liszkowska for the film DOG DAYS ARE OVER, dir. Kinga Pudełek

BEST ACTOR category:
* Marcin Cieślikowski for the film POLAR BEARS, dir. Bartosz Stankiewicz
* Oleksij Morozov for the film LIOSZA, dir. Miłosz Sawicki
* Daniel Namiotko for the film: TRANSGRESSION (film produced by the Film School in Gdynia), dir. Diana Szczotka and the film DOG DAYS ARE OVER, dir. Kinga Pudełek

BEST DOCUMENTARY FILM category:
* Mariusz Rusiński for the film SISTER OF MINE
* Marta Socha for the film BREATHLESS

BEST ANIMATED FILM category:
* Szymon Ruczyński for the film THERE ARE PEOPLE IN THE FOREST
* Klaudia Bochniak for the film TOTO
* Natan Lidia Bohdanowicz for the film OWIECZNOŚĆ
* Helena Stańczyk for the film 49 385

In the BEST FILM category, producers and directors of films nominated in all of the above categories have a chance to win an award.

Our graduates are also among the nominated artists.

Congratulations to everyone - we are keeping our fingers crossed!

As every year, the films of all nominated filmmakers, will be shown during the partner festival CINEMAFORUM in Warsaw, which closes the year-long period of awarding nominations. On the occasion of the project's twentieth anniversary, the organizers have also planned additional events and screenings which will honour the anniversary edition.

As usual, we will learn the names of the winners during CINEMAFORUM. The Jan Machulski Awards Chapter will announce its verdict at the festival's final gala which will take place on 27, October, 2024 at the Atlantic Cinema.


 Jan Machulski Awards website: janmachulski.pl

photo. Awards press materials