Artur Zaborski, artistic director of Script Fiesta, has announced the shortlist of competition films which includes the film CLOWNS.

The jury of the competition for Best Screenplay for a Polish feature film includes directors and screenwriters: DK Welchman, Maria Sadowska, Maciej Ślesicki, Damian Kocur, Lech Majewski, Jan Kidawa-Błoński and Michał Witkowski.

The Script Fiesta runs in Warsaw from 27 to 30, March.

Let us recall – THE CLOWNS is the seventh full-length diploma film of our acting students, directed by the debuting actress and director Gabriela Muskała. After numerous festival screenings, the film was distributed in cinemas and nominated for the EAGLES Polish Film Awards in the category Discovery of the Year.

Full shortlist of the competition for Best Script for a Polish feature film - including our graduates: scriptfiesta.pl/pl/sf

THE CLOWNS
Film synopsis: Łukasz and Julka and Olo and Alicja are two friendly couples who are just finishing their acting studies. They dream of great roles and a quick path to the top. When they learn that their graduation film will be directed by the famous director Gajda, they decide to take advantage of the opportunity. The director has to choose two people for the main roles from the entire class. A classic "rat race" begins among the students. While improvising scenes for the film based on the themes of jealousy, lies, manipulation and betrayal, Łukasz is paired with Olo, and Julka with Alicja. The young actors slowly begin to perceive their partners as a threat. Tensions grow, revealing ambitions, complexes and unsettled matters. The line between fiction and reality blurs, and the graduation film becomes a scene of envy and desperate rivalry. Will friendship survive? Or will fame prove more important?

THE CLOWNS
Film credits:
SCREENPLAY & DIRECTION Gabriela Muskała
CINEMATOGRAPHY Piotr Żurawski
EDITING Jakub Darewski, Kosma Kowalczyk
PRODUCER Agata Golańska
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Ewa Hoffmann
PRODUCTION MANAGER Aleksandra Dziura
SET DESIGNER Zofia Mazurczak-Prus
COSTUMES Kinga Kubiak
MAKE-UP Matylda Morska
CHOREOGRAPHY Daria Szymańska
COLOUR CORRECTION Piotr Putko
SOUND DIRECTION Michał Kosterkiewicz, Michał Kosterkiewicz Jr MUSIC Zbigniew Zamachowski
ARTISTIC SUPERVISION Mariusz Grzegorzek
PRODUCTION Szkoła Filmowa w Łodzi
CO-PRODUCER EC1 Łódź – the City of Culture in Łódź, Indeks Film Studio
POSTER Kreacja Pro Andrzej Pągowski, Magdalena Błażków
CAST: Sebastian Dela, Jan Łuć, Justyna Litwic, Magdalena Dwurzyńska, Szymon Kukla, Jakub Dąbrowski, Karolina Kostoń, Klaudia Janas, Daniel Stanko, Oliwer Witek, Bogumiła Trzeciakowska, Klaudia Koścista, Jakub Sierenberg, Mikołaj Trynda
and Oskar Hamerski as the director GAJDA
with special guest appearances of Krystyna Janda, Jan Englert and Robert Więckiewicz

The Festival organizers also appreciated the scripts for the small screen, which is why our students and graduates are among the nominees for the series concept competition:

- DINTOJRA - screenplay: Piotr Hadyna (screenwriting graduate), Tymoteusz Kałużewski (directing student) and Filip Mańka (film/TV production organization student )- the script was created as part of the development programme for NETFLIX series at the Lodz Film School;

- FAŁSZ - screenplay: Dorota Wójtowicz (screenwriting student);

- CZYSTE DOBRO - screenplay: Artur Krawczyk, Dominika Khalil (screenwriting graduates).

Complete list of competition nominees: scriptfiesta.pl/pl/sf

In addition, on Thursday, 27, March, the premiere of the latest publication will take place: "How to write a radio play? A study for authors of audio scripts" by Magdalena Wleklik, our doctoral student at the PWSFTviT Doctoral School. The book was published by the Film School Publishing House, which will have a stand at the Script Fiesta Festival premises where the book will be on sale. You will also be able to talk to the author on Friday (28.03) from 12:00 to 14:00.

"The art of storytelling develops with the progress of civilization. The last few generations were raised on radio broadcasts and consider it natural to transport themselves with their imagination into the world of audio plays. (...) Streaming media had a chance to eliminate the need to receive audio stories; however, this did not happen. There is a kind of renaissance of this type of production, as evidenced by the growing popularity of audioteka.pl, with which the Lodz Film School Publishing House cooperated on the publication of this book. The publication was prepared primarily from the perspective of authors and screenwriters who have linked their artistic lives with audio productions. Its aim is to collect and systematize experiences and to provide specific methods for writing a script for a radio play".


MAGDALENA WLEKLIK
Screenwriter, director. Author of radio plays produced by Audioteka, Polish Radio Theatre, Radio Szczecin and Radio Białystok: Mosty, Agent wolności, Anna Karenina, Mam plan, Matysiakowie, Konsul, Beksa, Czarne nie są złe and others. Winner of script competitions, including: Audioteka, Script Wars, Wyobraź Sobie. Resident of the Forum for Dialogue of Cultures at Villa Decius as part of the Polish-German scholarship programme. Graduate of the PWSFTviT in Łódź. Co-creator of the Film Script Library operating under its auspices.

1 still from the film THE CLOWNS
2 - "How to write a radio play?"