4-8.12.2024 / Białystok

Journalist Jury (Poland)

Journalist Jury (Poland)

It is with great joy that we present Journalist Jury (Poland)!
The jury will decide which film (entered into the Eastward Window and the Whole Wide World competitions) will receive the best foreign film award.

Grzegorz Brzozowski
Born in Wysokie Mazowieckie, a graduate of the documentary course at the Andrzej Wajda Master School of Film Directing. He also studied sociology, psychology and reportage at the University of Warsaw and Yale University. Editor and head of the “Patrząc” review section at Kultura Liberalna, the author of interviews, among others, with Andrzej Wajda, Joshua Oppenheimer and Agnieszka Holland.

Paweł Mączewski
Sociologist by education, journalist by profession. Former editor-in-chief of “VICE Poland”, currently the editor of the Zagrano.pl website, author of texts for Radio Kampus and Noizz.pl and a correspondent of VICE UK. He has published in “Gazeta Wyborcza” and NaEkranie and reviewed on Film.org. In his free time, he co-runs the Kreski Magazine website, watches classic horror movies, old B-class action movies and draws monsters.

Adriana Prodeus
Film and art critic. In “KINO”, she is responsible for the topic of the issue and writes about animation studios. In “Vogue” she publishes the column “Disassembly of attractions”. Author of the book “The Themersons. Biographical Sketches” (2009). She lectures at the Institute of Art of the Polish Academy of Sciences. She specializes in film avant-garde and animated films. Curator of the adaptation of the International Short Story Festival in Wrocław and programs, incl. at the New Horizons festival or the Anthology Film Archive in New York. Selector of the Gdynia Film Festival, juror of Animocia and the Krakow Film Festival. She was the deputy director of U-jazdowski, curator of exhibitions, and literary consultant of the KADR Film Studio. She hosted cultural programs in public media and published in many press titles.