National Film School in Łódź

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The National School of Film, Television and Theatre " Leon Schiller" Łódź ( Państwowa Wyższa SzkoĹ Filmowa, Telewizyjna i Teatralna Leona Schillera w Łodzi, in short. PWSFTViT ) is one of the leading film schools for directors, cinematographers and actors in the world. It is located in Łódź in the former industrial area Księży Mlyn ( Pfaff village).

The school is subordinate to the Polish Ministry of Art and Culture and indirectly to the Ministry of Education. She is a member of the international film Hochschulverband CILECT.

History

Łódź was destroyed little in comparison to Warsaw. Because of this, the cultural life developed here faster after the Second World War. In addition to the settlement of film production in 1948 and the Wyższa SzkoĹ Aktorska ( Higher Drama School ) film school under the name Wyższa SzkoĹ Filmowa ( Higher Film School ) was established on March 8, 1948. She had two main directions; the training of directors and cameramen. Around 1956, the time of political unrest, the school developed a curriculum theory and practice combined. Important contributor in the development was Jerzy Toeplitz, a film historian who in 1957 was director of the school. In 1958, the acting school and film school under the name Państwowa Wyższa SzkoĹ Filmowa i Teatralna were. Leona Schillera (German: National Film and Theatre Academy ) combined. The school also writes to an important impact in the dissemination of jazz in Poland since the camera men and Jerzy Witold Sobociński Matuszkiewicz were avid jazz musicians and the Trad Jazz Band founded. 1958 was the student of the school Roman Polanski for his film Dwaj ludzie z szafa ( Two Men and a Wardrobe ) at the World Exhibition in Brussels an award.

Due to political pressure, the director Jerzy Toeplitz left together with other teachers to film school. Toeplitz went to Australia and worked at the local film school. Since the late 1970s, the school stepped up its international contacts and has participated in numerous international film festivals.

Study

There are four areas of directing, cinematography, acting and production management study in which about 1,000 students. In the control department each year be included about 12 students from the large number of applicants, of which about half comes from the ( intra -and extra- European) countries.

Applicants must pass a multiple-day entrance exam. Applicants come from all over the world. Foreign applicants may sit the entrance examination in English. If they are accepted for the study, so they must complete a one-year Polish language course prior to the study. The five -year training course covers all theoretical, technical and practical aspects especially of filmmaking. The students realize every year a large number of so-called " Etueden " ( short films ), which are measured at the end of the academic year of an existing professors from the university examiners. The teachers generally work in the practical world and few have a purely academic background. The school has its own professional equipment such as cameras, studios, editing rooms, a recording studio, a theater, etc. You basically works like a small film studio. Also, the school operates a film library of films by students as well as a library with the largest collection of film books of Poland.

Personalities

Rectors

Directors

Cinematographers

  • Barbara Brylska
  • Paweł Edelman
  • Adam Holender
  • Sławomir Idziak
  • Mieczysław Jahode
  • Andrzej Jaroszewicz
  • Joanna Jędryka
  • Edward Kłosiński
  • Zbigniew Lenczewski
  • Zygmunt Malanowicz
  • Krzysztof Ptak
  • Piotr Lenar
  • Pola Raksa
  • Zbigniew Rybczyński
  • Piotr Sobociński
  • Witold Sobociński
  • Elżbieta Starostecka
  • Tomasz value
  • Jerzy Wójcik
  • Wieslaw Zdort
  • Michal Majerski

Actor

  • Andrzej Szczytko
  • Artur BARCIS
  • Mariusz Benoit
  • Jadwiga Barańska
  • Zbigniew Cynkutis
  • Grazyna Długołęcka
  • Janusz Gajos
  • Ewa Gawryluk
  • Tomasz Konieczny
  • January Machulski
  • Zygmunt Malanowicz
  • Anna Nowak
  • Cezary Pazura
  • Krzysztof Stroinski
  • Bronisław Wroclaw
  • Zbigniew Zamachowski
  • Witold Zatorski
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