HBO's main prize for best screenplay Script Pro 2011 was awarded to Wiktor Kubica for his screenplay "Recepta" / "Prescription"
This year's award ceremony for best script organised by the Andrzej Wajda Master School of Film Directing and Off Plus Camera Festival were held during an inspiring "Against the Grain" award gala in Kraków's Kijów cinema. The winner, Wiktor Kubica also received a Special Award funded by Catalyst Holding Group.
Honoring recipients of the second and third awards, funded by the Polish Film Institute, were Maksymilian Nowicki author of Czas trampek" / "Sneaker Time and Piotr Chrzan for his script Ptak - Klepak" / "Tapping Bird.
This year's nine finalists for best screenplay:
- Czas trampek" / "Sneaker Time, Maksymilian Nowicki;
- Licho" / "Evil Spirit, Mateusz Jemioł, Tomasz Zasada;
- Menażeria" / "Menagerie, Bartosz Blaschke;
- Najśmieszniejszy człowiek na świecie" / "The Funniest Man in the World, Przemysław Jurek;
- Ptak-Klepak" / "Tapping Bird, Piotr Chrzan;
- Recepta" / "Prescription, Wiktor Kubica z Gronia;
- Szewcowa" / "The Shoemaker, Justyna Stasio;
- Trójkąt moich snów" / "Born From Pain, Magdalena Kamińska;
- Wiatr" / "The Wind, Igor Brejdygant
Apart from the aforementioned awards, all finalists received grants sponsored by the Polish Film Institute for future work.
The main award laureate - Wiktor Kubica from Groń - is an architect by education. He has published several books and exhibited his photography. Recepta" / "Prescription is a postwar story about ethnic animosities (Polish, German, Czech), told from the perspective of a teenage boy, who moves to a small town on the border with his parents.
Script Pro 2011 is organised by Andrzej Wajda Master School of Film Directing as well as Off Plus Camera Festival with the assistance of the Polish Film Institute, HBO Poland and Catalyst Holding Group. The SCRIPT PRO competition is a continuation of the well-known Hartley-Merrill competition, organised in Poland for the past 20 years. Adam Ślesicki has been the co-ordinator of the competition for the last six years. In previous editions, around 150 scripts were submitted to the competition; this year's edition, the first under the new name, is therefore a record one in terms of the number of submitted texts - as many as 245. The award ceremony takes place in mid-April, during the Off Plus Camera festival in Kraków. The selection committee includes: Magda Sendecka (journalist and film critic), Katarzyna Skorupska (editor, journalist), Maciej Sobieszczański (scriptwriter, director), Michał Walczak (playwright, director), Rafał Sabara (director, scriptwriter), Bartosz Kurowski (journalist, scriptwriter) and Piotr Subbotko (scriptwriter, director). The jury, preparing the final evaluation of the works, includes: Joanna Kos-Krauze (lecturer and script consultant), Feliks Falk (film and theatre director, scriptwriter, producer), Jacek Fuksiewicz (Head of PISF plenipotentiary for Film Production), Andrzej Saramonowicz (scriptwriter, director, producer and playwright) and Wojciech Szumowski (director, scriptwriter).
The competition is intended for debutants and for emerging writers whose work includes not more than one full-length feature film script that has been produced. Organisers encourage scripts on universal subjects, including cultural threads associated to the country and regions of the writer's origins. The jurors evaluating the scripts and selecting the winners are leading Polish filmmakers, critics and script consultants. Past winners include: Bandit by Cezary Harasimowicz; The Station Piotra Wereśniaka, The Collector by Grzegorz Łoszewski and My Flesh, My Blood by Marcin Wrona and Grażyna Trela. Presently, four films based on winning screenplays are being produced: The Photograph by Maciej Adamek, Out of Love by Anna Jadowska, Fear of Heights collective work of Bartek Konopka and Piotr Borkowski and You Are God by Maciej Pisuk.
More information at: www.scriptpro.pl.
Source: press release