ŻUBROFFKA invites to workshops

ŻUBROFFKA Festival loves cinema, that is why we want to learn how to make it, discuss about it amd how to shape your film critics eye. We invite cinephiles from all age groups to join in!

During 10th edition of the festival we would like to invite participants to “Seniors vs Dogme”workshop, where with guidance of Grzegorz Jaroszuk we will check if cinema magic can be easily torn to pieces by seniors. A group of young animators will discover extraordinary stories within themselves and the person who will help to put them on screen will be Ewa Borysewicz during “My Home, My Playground” workshops. Jakub Socha will try to teach young journalists how to write about film or how to discuss about such topics.
All workshops will take place during International Short Film Festival ŻUBROFFKA 2015, December 2-6.

If you would like to join us please contact:  warsztaty@zubroffka.pl or kino@bok.bialystok.pl, tel. 85 746 13 15
Download entry form (PL):
– animation workshop
– journalist workshop

Filmmaking workshop: Seniors vs Dogme
Host: Grzegorz Jaroszuk
Free entry, number of participants limited
Venue: Białystok

Hand-held camera, eliminating artificial lighting and filters, no scenic design, sound recorded simultaneously with the image, rejecting genre cinema and so-called superficial action – this is not a description of an amateur film, but the main principles of Dogme 95 Manifesto. Along with director Grzegorz Jaroszuk we invited senior citizens to make their own avant-garde film, obeying these rules. “Cinema has always been seen as a great illusion. For many it was its greatest strength. However, there were filmmakers who wanted to bring together cinema closer to the truth and they believed in Dogme’s principles. How did they want to make films more authentic? What means and techniques did they use? Can a senior strip cinema of illusion in just a few days? During the workshop we will learn the guidelines Dogma and shot a film scene according to them. We are going to focus on discovering family secrets and complicated interpersonal relationships. “- Grzegorz Jaroszuk

Grzegorz Jaroszuk – graduate of Film School in Lodz. His graduation film “Frozen Stories” won over 30 awards at festivals in Poland and abroad (Locarno, Sundance, AFI Los Angeles). Member of the European Film Academy. His full-length debut

Journalism workshop
Host: Jakub Socha
Fee: 30 zł (paid in boxoffice of Forum cinema)
Venue: Białystok

“Can you teach someone to write about films? I don’t know, but I know you can simply talk and discuss writing about films. At the workshop we will try to look at different strategies, styles and tricks used by critics. We are going to find differences between critics and reviewers, essayists and columnists, interlocutors and interviewers. We will have a look at texts written by prominent authors and talk about the written assignment for the participants during the workshop. And everything will be based on the extensive programme of this year’s ŻUBROFFKA. ” – Jakub Socha.

Jacob Socha – graduate of film studies at UAM. Film critic, managing director of the film portal at dwutygodnik.com. The winner of Krzystof Mętrak competition (2007). Co-founder of now-defunct Gazeta Filmowa. He published in Film, Kino, Filmweb and Gazeta Wyborcza. Co-author of the book DOCąd. Conversations with Polish Documentarians and volumes Polish Independent Cinema and I do not want to sleep alone. Films of Tsai Ming – Liang.

Animated documentary workshop: My Home, My Playground
Host: Ewa Borysewicz
Fee: 40 zł (paid in boxoffice of Forum cinema)
Venue: Art School in Supraśl

“Everyone has a story within themselves to tell, full of tales, short anecdotes. You just have to stop, have a look and take a note. If you give them time and some room on a piece of paper, they will start living their own lives. The workshop will introduce the participants to an animated documentary and chalk on a blackboard animation technique. Basing on anecdotes heard from family members or friends, they will undergo the process from the script and sketches to the animated film. “- Ewa Borysewicz.

Ewa Borysewicz – was born in Sokółka, grew up in Janow, Kumiałka, Czarna Białostocka and Bialystok. A graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow. After festival successes of her student animated film “Who Would Have Thought?”, her debut “To Thy Heart” was nominated for the Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival 2014. Eva took part in AAIR artistic residency program in Tokyo (2012) and in the Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart (2013). She made short animated social issue films for TVP Kultura and Białystok Arsenal Gallery. She is studying film directing at the Radio and Television Faculty in Katowice.

Co-organizer of the workshop is Art School in Supraśl