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MAGDA KUPRYJANOWICZ and MAGDALENA KUĆKA are the winners of the SCRIPT PRO Screenwriting Competition. Congratulations!
MAGDA KUPRYJANOWICZ (first from the left in the photo), a PhD student at our School and a lecturer in screenwriting has won the 1st prize in the FILM category of the most important competition for screenwriters in Poland - SCRIPT PRO for the text TAM, GDZIE NAS NIE MA (There, where we are not).
The jury statement reads: "For a nuanced and moving portrayal of the forbidden love story of the famous writer Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz and a young construction worker, as well as a skillful presentation of the realities of the Polish People's Republic. And also for creating multidimensional, full-blooded characters who undergo credible and moving transformations."
MAGDALENA KUĆKA (second from the left in the photo), a fourth-year screenwriting student, has received the Second Prize in the SCRIPT PRO Competition for the text BYĆ TU OTO. (Be right here)
The text was developed in the third year of screenwriting under the supervision of Andrzej Mellin.
Jury statement: "For drawing a complex, multi-level portrait of a mother-daughter relationship in the convention of a road movie. Not only psychologically convincing, but skillfully combined with a well-told story about sexual initiation and maturing to honesty."
The SCRIPT PRO Competition – organised by the Wajda School and Mastercard OFF CAMERA in cooperation with the Polish Filmmakers Association, the ZAIKS Association of Authors, the Documentary and Feature Film Studio and the Kyoto-Kraków Foundation – is the most important Polish competition for screenwriters who are at the beginning of their careers.
For the authors, the competition is a chance for development, and for the producers, a guarantee that the final texts selected from several hundred entries deserve further attention. An integral element of SCRIPT PRO is the development of the final texts and further work on them at the Wajda School under the supervision of leading Polish filmmakers, screenwriters and consultants.
The awards ceremony took place during a gala as part of the Mastercard OFF CAMERA International Independent Cinema Festival in Kraków.
photos: organizer’s materials
The jury statement reads: "For a nuanced and moving portrayal of the forbidden love story of the famous writer Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz and a young construction worker, as well as a skillful presentation of the realities of the Polish People's Republic. And also for creating multidimensional, full-blooded characters who undergo credible and moving transformations."
MAGDALENA KUĆKA (second from the left in the photo), a fourth-year screenwriting student, has received the Second Prize in the SCRIPT PRO Competition for the text BYĆ TU OTO. (Be right here)
The text was developed in the third year of screenwriting under the supervision of Andrzej Mellin.
Jury statement: "For drawing a complex, multi-level portrait of a mother-daughter relationship in the convention of a road movie. Not only psychologically convincing, but skillfully combined with a well-told story about sexual initiation and maturing to honesty."
The SCRIPT PRO Competition – organised by the Wajda School and Mastercard OFF CAMERA in cooperation with the Polish Filmmakers Association, the ZAIKS Association of Authors, the Documentary and Feature Film Studio and the Kyoto-Kraków Foundation – is the most important Polish competition for screenwriters who are at the beginning of their careers.
For the authors, the competition is a chance for development, and for the producers, a guarantee that the final texts selected from several hundred entries deserve further attention. An integral element of SCRIPT PRO is the development of the final texts and further work on them at the Wajda School under the supervision of leading Polish filmmakers, screenwriters and consultants.
The awards ceremony took place during a gala as part of the Mastercard OFF CAMERA International Independent Cinema Festival in Kraków.
photos: organizer’s materials