Competitions


Warsaw Animation Winner

This year the best animated film will receive the Warsaw Animation Winner Award. The winning film will be chosen by a jury consisted of: Wojciech Wawszczyk, Anna Błaszczyk, Kamil Polak.

Films in the competition

May 14, 15:00  Kinoteka 6

May 9, 21:00  Kinoteka 2

May 15, 21:00  Kinoteka 6

May 8, 21:30  Kinoteka 2

May 14, 15:00  Kinoteka 6

May 9, 21:00  Kinoteka 2

May 15, 21:00  Kinoteka 6

May 8, 21:30  Kinoteka 2

May 14, 15:00  Kinoteka 6

May 9, 21:00  Kinoteka 2

May 14, 15:00  Kinoteka 6

May 9, 21:00  Kinoteka 2

May 14, 15:00  Kinoteka 6

May 9, 21:00  Kinoteka 2

May 15, 21:00  Kinoteka 6

May 8, 21:30  Kinoteka 2

Jury

Wojciech Wawszczyk

Born 1977 in Cieszyn. Graphic artist, filmmaker, screenwriter, animator, and set decorator for animated films, composer. Graduate of the Łódź Film School, scholarship holder at Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg in Ludwigsburg. Between 2003 and 2005 he worked at LA-based Digital Domain, where he co-created animations for such films as I, Robot and Aeon Flux. His films have been screened at may international festivals and received a number of prestigious awards (Imagina, Animago, Ars Electronica, SIGGRAPH, Mecon, OFAFA, Era New Horizons). Along with Tomasz Leśniak i Jakub Tarkowski he directed a full-feature Polish animation film Jeż Jerzy (2010), in which he lent his voice to one of the characters.

Anna Błaszczyk

Born 1981 in Łódź. Filmmaker, animator and illustrator, who majored in Animation&Special Effects at the Łódź Film School. Her debut film Caracas (2006) received numerous awards at festivals in Poland and abroad (main prizes at Beograd, Riga and Sopot, Special Jury Award at 2007 Filmfest Dresden). Participant of the European Animation Masterclass in Halle, Germany (where she completed the film Nannyless honored in 2007 at Leipzig), as well of a few editions of Dresden's European Exchange Forum – Perspectives for Animated Film. She has worked on music festival visuals (2008 Heineken Open'er), music videos (Kora&5th Element) and full-feature animations (Jeż Jerzy).
Aside from animation, she also illustrates books and press articles.

Kamil Polak

Born 1980, studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw and animation at Łódź Film School. His student film, Narodziny Narodu (2001), has been classified as one of the best animations ever made at the Łódź School. Between 2003 and 2008 he worked for the Łódź-based film studio Se-Ma-For, where he was responsible for computer effects in the Academy Award-winning short animation Peter and the Wolf. His most recent animation, The Lost Town of Świteź, completed in the Warsaw-based computer animation studio Human Ark, premiered at the Berlinale in 2011.