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Among the winners there are our students: Ewa Klimek vel Ślęzak, Klara Walaszczyk and Aleksandra Kubisa, as well as our graduate, Barbara Rupik.
On Saturday, 10, May, 2025, the 6th SLAM National Live Animation Festival held at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk ended. It was organized in cooperation with the Institute of Urban Culture in Gdańsk, Spektrum Cinema, Cat Club in Gdańsk, the City of Sopot, the Association of Polish Animation Producers (Nowa Animacja), the Gdańsk Film Fund, the InvestGDA Gdańsk Economic Development Agency and the Polish Filmmakers Association.
The festival is the original idea of the Polish Filmmakers Association member Robert Turło, a doctor of the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk, where animation studies are being developed as part of the Department of Media at the Faculty of Graphics, and the festival is a manifestation of the integration of the animated film community in Pomerania.
Academic Jury composed of:
prof. Jacek Adamczak - UAP
prof. Bogdan Król - ASP Katowice
prof. Robert Sowa ASP Kraków
prof. Aleksandra Chrapowicka PWSFTviT Łódź
dr Marcin Wojciechowski UKEN Kraków
dr hab. Joanna Polak UMCS Lublin
dr Aga Jarząbowa ASP Wrocław
dr Olga Wroniewicz PJATK Warszawa
dr Tomasz Wlaźlak UMK Toruń
dr Krzysztof Ostrowski ASP w Łodzi
dr Paulina Kminikowska Politechnika Koszalińska
dr Robert Turło ASP Gdańsk
awarded prizes and distinctions in several categories.
Here are our winners:
The award of the Tri-City Branch of the Polish Filmmakers Association for the film made during the Festival on a given topic, entitled NEW OLD, went to second-year students of animated film and special effects: Ewa Klimek vel Ślęzak, Klara Walaszczyk and Aleksandra Kubisa.
The film was made using analogue techniques over the course of 12 hours in the basements of the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk.
Film synopsis: A grotesque film about the current housing market.
The best film in the SLAM Animation Film Competition was the graduation film SUCH MIRACLES DO HAPPEN directed by Barbara Rupik. Our graduate's film also won the Audience Award and the Jury Award of SPPA (3rd place), the festival partner.
The competition also included the diploma film by Urszula Domańska entitled KOTECZKU JESZCZE RAZ (KITTY KITTY ONE MORE TIME) and, in the exercise category, a film by student Jagoda Czarnek entitled WOLNO, SZYBKO, WOLNO (SLOW, FAST, SLOW).
Information about the festival is available on the Facebook profile: facebook.com/people/Animation-SLAM
Congratulations!
1, 3 – stills from NOWE STARE
2 – still from SUCH MIRACLES DO HAPPEN
The festival is the original idea of the Polish Filmmakers Association member Robert Turło, a doctor of the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk, where animation studies are being developed as part of the Department of Media at the Faculty of Graphics, and the festival is a manifestation of the integration of the animated film community in Pomerania.
Academic Jury composed of:
prof. Jacek Adamczak - UAP
prof. Bogdan Król - ASP Katowice
prof. Robert Sowa ASP Kraków
prof. Aleksandra Chrapowicka PWSFTviT Łódź
dr Marcin Wojciechowski UKEN Kraków
dr hab. Joanna Polak UMCS Lublin
dr Aga Jarząbowa ASP Wrocław
dr Olga Wroniewicz PJATK Warszawa
dr Tomasz Wlaźlak UMK Toruń
dr Krzysztof Ostrowski ASP w Łodzi
dr Paulina Kminikowska Politechnika Koszalińska
dr Robert Turło ASP Gdańsk
awarded prizes and distinctions in several categories.
Here are our winners:
The award of the Tri-City Branch of the Polish Filmmakers Association for the film made during the Festival on a given topic, entitled NEW OLD, went to second-year students of animated film and special effects: Ewa Klimek vel Ślęzak, Klara Walaszczyk and Aleksandra Kubisa.
The film was made using analogue techniques over the course of 12 hours in the basements of the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk.
Film synopsis: A grotesque film about the current housing market.
The best film in the SLAM Animation Film Competition was the graduation film SUCH MIRACLES DO HAPPEN directed by Barbara Rupik. Our graduate's film also won the Audience Award and the Jury Award of SPPA (3rd place), the festival partner.
The competition also included the diploma film by Urszula Domańska entitled KOTECZKU JESZCZE RAZ (KITTY KITTY ONE MORE TIME) and, in the exercise category, a film by student Jagoda Czarnek entitled WOLNO, SZYBKO, WOLNO (SLOW, FAST, SLOW).
Information about the festival is available on the Facebook profile: facebook.com/people/Animation-SLAM
Congratulations!
1, 3 – stills from NOWE STARE
2 – still from SUCH MIRACLES DO HAPPEN