Competitions: Canon Cinematography Award

Once again, PLANETE+ DOC FILM FESTIVAL will give out the Canon Cinematography Award to the best cinematographer. The winning film will receive 4,000 euros . Films will be judged by a jury consisting of Jacek Petrycki, Jacek Prosiński and Michał Bukojemski. The award is funded by Canon Poland. This competition is organized in partnership with the Polish Society of Cinematographers.

Jury

Jacek Petrycki

Born 1948 in Poznan, studied cinematography at the Film School in Lodz (class of 1970). Cinematographer for feature films including “Camera Buff”, “Interrogation”, “Europa Europa”, and “Black Thursday”. In 2008, “The Offsiders”, in which he did the cinematography, won the Polish Film Competition at Camerimage Festival. Also a documentary filmmaker; his “City of No God” won awards at i.a. Cracow, Lodz and Houston film festivals. In 2010, Petrycki received the silver “Gloria Artis” Medal for Merit to Culture.




Jacek Prosiński

Born 1946 in Lodz, where he studied cinematography at the Film School in Lodz (PWSFTViT, 1965-69). Active in the film industry for almost 50 years, he has worked as an assistant, production manager, photo stills author, lecturer, film director and cinematographer. Cinematographer in over 150 documentary films, many TV series and some feature films (including „Wielka Majówka”/”The Big Picnic”). He is currently working on an album of his own photographs depicting film and cultural events of the 1960s and 1970s.



Michał Bukojemski

Graduated from the Cinematography Department at the Film School (PWSTViT) in Lodz. Worked as a cinematographer for W.F. “Czołówka”, and then for many years at the Documentary Film Production Company in Warsaw. During the first half of the 1990s, he worked for the ABC News in Warsaw, and later in Moscow.
That period of his life is summed up by the film “Wojny innych ludzi” (“Other People’s Wars”) about the beginnings of the conflict in Chechnya. Currently, he’s an independent “one-man” documentary producer. His most well-known works, aside from the abovementioned film, are “Mama Masza” (“Masha the Mom”) about lesbian mothers, and a series of five documentaries called “Z Kroniki Auschwitz” (“From the Auschwitz Chronicles”).