Polish Jury

Agnieszka Obszańska (Poland) - graduated from theatre studies, works in radio by choice. Since 2007 journalist for “Trójka” radio, where she is a reporter and program author. She runs the daily program “Teren Kultura” on cultural events in Poland and around the world, as well as on new phenomena in culture. She is also co-author of the “Radiowy Dom Kultury” program. Jury member of the “Talenty Trójki” award for Visual Arts. She travels with a microphone professionally, and privately – cheaply and with a backpack. She is interested in field recordings.

Andrzej Titkow (Poland) - poet, director, screenwriter, producer, and lecturer. Born in Warsaw on the 24th of March 1946. In 1964-1969 studied at the Film Direction Department at the Film School in Łódź, which he graduated from in 1972, earning his MA. His film debut, the documentary “In Such a Small Town,” had its premiere in 1971. He made over seventy documentaries, several TV feature films (including the “Circulatory System” series), the cinema-released “Reflected Light,” as well as theatre and TV plays. Author of two poetry collections: “Wstęp do nie napisanego poematu” (1976) and “Zapisy, zaklęcia” (1996). Between November 2004 and July 2006 worked as associate editor of the Redakcja Form Dokumentalnych Programu 1 TVP S.A. In 2005-2010 he was Artistic Director of the International Film Festival “Jewish Motifs” in Warsaw. Member of the Polish Filmmakers Association (SFP), the Polish Society of Authors and Composers (ZAiKS), the Polish Writers' Association, and the Polish PEN-Club. Titkow has participated in numerous individual film festivals both in Poland and abroad. He has won numerous film awards. In 2013 received the Order of Polonia Restituta.

Maja Wolińska (Poland) - lives and works mostly in Wrocław. Does artistic and didactic work at the Department of Media Arts at the Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław. The scope of her research and artistic activity includes moving images, their structure and relation with time, the methods of presenting and producing content. She deals both with the “laboratorial” form – synthetic images, non-linear and interactive narrative, as well as the form embedded within “external” context – from site-specific installations to observatory and paradocumentary productions. Since 2010 she has been doing the Commonheavens project with Joan Leandre, and one of the productions that constitute the project received first prize of the Polish Competition at Szczecin European Film Festival in 2014.