STRASBOURG: Alexander Nanau’s documentary collective has been voted by the European public and the members of the European Parliament as the winner of.
WARSAW: Paweł Maślona, director of the award-winning
Panic Attack, is in development with a film about the Polish war hero Tadeusz Kościuszko, under the working title
Scarborn.
Shooting is scheduled to begin next year. Leszek Bodzak and Aneta Hickinbotham from Aurum Film, the company behind Oscar-nominated
Corpus Christi, will be producing. The script was written by Michał A. Zieliński.
The film received project development funding from the Polish Film Institute. The final budget has not been announced. The search for international coproduction partners is currently underway.
Scarborn will follow the story of Tadeusz Kościuszko, a trusted ally of General George Washington and a colonel of the US Continental Army, who returns to his homeland years later with his friend, former slave Jean Lapierre, known as Domingo. Together, they take up the fight to liberate Poland from the oppressive feudal system, the climax of which is a national uprising against the Russian Empire
Despite Pandemic s Setbacks, Polish Filmmakers Forge Ahead With Busy 2021 Slate
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The coronavirus pandemic couldn’t have arrived at a worse time for Leszek Bodzak, the producer behind Jan Komasa’s Oscar-nominated “Corpus Christi.” With just five days to spare before principal photography was set to begin on “Leave No Traces,” the latest feature from acclaimed director Jan P. Matuszyński (“The Last Family”), Bodzak was forced to postpone the shoot.
Yet in the four months of hand-wringing before cameras finally began to roll last July, Bodzak’s French co-producer, Les Contes Modernes, was able to secure additional financing from Arte and regional French funds, giving the film’s budget a much-needed boost. “That was something unexpectedly good from the pandemic,” says Bodzak, whose Aurum Film is also prepping Komasa’s next project, “Shine of the Sun.”
Pawel Maslona to Direct Big-Budget Drama on Revolutionary War Hero Kosciuszko (EXCLUSIVE)
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Polish director Paweł Maślona (“Panic Attack”) is prepping a lavish period drama about the American Revolutionary War hero Tadeusz Kościuszko.
Produced by Leszek Bodzak and Aneta Hickinbotham for Aurum Film, the production house behind Jan Komasa’s Oscar-nominated “Corpus Christi,” the historical epic with the working title “Scarborn,” from a script by Michał A. Zielinski received development funding from the Polish Film Institute. Aurum is now searching for international co-production partners, with an eye toward filming in 2022.
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