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An experienced team that can boast many successfully organized cultural events. Cinema Art Foundation was created by the group of people who have been involved with the film environment for many years. They have organized film workshops, seminars, contests and festivals both on local and international level. Among others, they organized World Independent Film Festivals UNICA (1997, 2003, 2009), each hosting over 400 hundred people from 30 countries. Presently, Foundation Cinema Art is also a co-organiser of the OFF/ON Warsaw European Film Week and the Re:visions, Independent Art Invasion as well as the initiator and the unique organizer of the Young Cinema Art, World Student Film Festival and Grand OFF, World Off Film Awards. The Foundation also organized “Pointe to Point” and “Rotations” dance projects. Cinema Art Foundation essentially aims at facilitating access to art and culture. Promoting various forms of cultural projects, involving people from different backgrounds, we combine art and culture with education. To this end, we have established a fruitful cooperation with professional film circles, cultural organizations and independent filmmakers from all over the world.
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Witold Kon
Festival Director
President of Cinema Art Foundation |
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Culture promoter and worker for voluntary causes with over 30 years of experience. Actively advocating for the independent film „industry” since 1982. He started and produced the first twelve editions of the Child and Teenage Amateur International Film Festival (present name MFF Dozwolone do 21/UP TO 21). He was the Director of the 53rd and 65th UNICA World Film Festival and served two terms as the Vice President of FAKF Festival. Since 1993 he’s been the President of the Federation of Independent Filmmakers. Awarded the Golden Medal of UNICA. Director of Young Cinema Art – the World Student Film Festival. The founding father of the Grand Off – European Off Film Awards.
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She graduated in linguistics and cultural studies from the University of Warsaw, her major being three languages: English, Spanish and French. Currently, she is a Ph D student at the English Institute of the University of Warsaw. She has been involved with the Cinema Art Foundation and Federation of Independent Filmmakers since 2008. Since 2007, she has also been working for the Warsaw Film Foundation, organizing Warsaw FilmFest. She happens to be a trained and well-experienced film translator and is keenly interested in everything related to cinema, both commercial as well as independent one. Actively promoting independent film from all over the world, she is equally an avid traveller and loves to venture into the wildest and most remote spots of our globe.
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Graduated in British, Spanish and French Cultural Studies, currently she works on her PhD at the Iberian and Ibero-American Institute, University of Warsaw. She volunteered for the Kino.LAB Promotional Office by the Centre for Contemporary Art in Warsaw, dabbing in film subtitling and supervising open air screenings. She also worked for Warsaw Film Foundation as film translator and lent a hand during the 24th Warsaw Film Festival. Since 2009 she has been collaborating with the Federation of Independent Filmmakers, organizing the 71st World Independent Film Festival UNICA in Gdańsk. Last year, she also started working for Cinema Art Foundation as one of the main organizers of Young Cinema Art - World Student Film Festival, as well as the Grand OFF 2009 Awards. She is keen on improvised long-distance travels, thanks to which she has managed to visit one or two remote corners of the world.
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She graduated in Cultural Studies from the Warsaw School of Social Sciences and Humanities. She is passionate for film and modern art. That is why, since the beginning of 2009 she has been involved with Cinema Art Foundation and the Federation of Independent Filmmakers. She has organized Grand OFF 2009 - World Independent Film Awards, Young Cinema Art 2009 - World Student Film Festival and UNICA 2009 - the 71st World Independent Film Festival. She is also an intern at the Warsaw Museum of Modern Art, where she develops policies of Web Promotion of a Cultural Institution and looks for ways of archiving the Museum's video resources.
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She is working for non-govermental organisation as manager of national and international projects. She is interested in everything what happens in between. In her work she combines business and administration with the third sector, which she enjoys the most. Films has always been her passion. She has been cooperating with Federation of Independent Filmmakers for 5 years organising such festivals as International Film Festival Dozwolone do 21 / UP TO 21, the UNICA World Film Festival, OFF/ON Warszawa European Film Week. She participated in many international projects and training courses. Presently, she is a Managing Director of Grand Off European Off Film Awards and Young Cinema Art – World Student Film Festival.
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Cooperates with Cinema Art Foundation and Federation of Independent Filmmakers since 2005. He was the head of the volunteer department during OFF/ON Warszawa European Film Week and the World Student Film Festival Young Cinema Art. Producer of many film, dance and music projects. He is a co-creator of international projects as well as actively participates in animating culture in Warsaw.
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