Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences CEO Bill Kramer “absolutely sees great possibilities” in a collaboration between the Academy and its Academy Museum with Camerimage, which recently broke ground on a new European Film Center in the Polish festival’s host city of Toruń.
Kramer participated in a Wednesday panel about building cultural centers such as the Academy Museum and European Film Center, during the 31st edition of the EnergaCamerimage cinematography film festival. He emphasized that the Academy has the only museum in the U.S. that’s solely devoted to cinema, outlining its features including its screening theaters and exhibitions. He added that he hopes the museum will have an impact in “reframing” film as an art form and cultural and educational tool.
During the panel, he reported that the Academy Museum, which opened in 2021, is already working to take its exhibitions around the world via a network of centers.
Kramer participated in a Wednesday panel about building cultural centers such as the Academy Museum and European Film Center, during the 31st edition of the EnergaCamerimage cinematography film festival. He emphasized that the Academy has the only museum in the U.S. that’s solely devoted to cinema, outlining its features including its screening theaters and exhibitions. He added that he hopes the museum will have an impact in “reframing” film as an art form and cultural and educational tool.
During the panel, he reported that the Academy Museum, which opened in 2021, is already working to take its exhibitions around the world via a network of centers.
- 11/15/2023
- by Carolyn Giardina
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
With the end of the SAG-AFTRA strike, Willem Dafoe came to the 31st EnergaCamerimage to support director Yorgos Lanthimos’ Poor Things, which opened the international cinematography film festival this week in Torun, Poland.
During the event, the actor sat down for a conversation with The Hollywood Reporter, to discuss the adaptation of the 1992 novel of the same name by Alasdair Gray. The story follows Bella Baxter — played by Emma Stone, who also produced — as a young woman brought back to life by unorthodox scientist Dr. Godwin Baxter, played by Dafoe. Under Baxter’s protection, Bella is eager to learn. Dafoe says of his character, “He’s a paternal guy and he loves her.”
This visit came together pretty quickly after the strike ended.
[Camerimage’s Kazik Suwala] I think was the first person I heard the strike ended from. I looked at some emails and he said, “It’s short notice, but...
During the event, the actor sat down for a conversation with The Hollywood Reporter, to discuss the adaptation of the 1992 novel of the same name by Alasdair Gray. The story follows Bella Baxter — played by Emma Stone, who also produced — as a young woman brought back to life by unorthodox scientist Dr. Godwin Baxter, played by Dafoe. Under Baxter’s protection, Bella is eager to learn. Dafoe says of his character, “He’s a paternal guy and he loves her.”
This visit came together pretty quickly after the strike ended.
[Camerimage’s Kazik Suwala] I think was the first person I heard the strike ended from. I looked at some emails and he said, “It’s short notice, but...
- 11/14/2023
- by Carolyn Giardina
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Like the cinematography sector overall this year, the profession’s prime annual festival, Poland’s Camerimage, has come through major challenges in 2023, says the event’s founder, Marek Zydowicz.
Launching in the historic town of Torun on Nov. 11, the 31st edition of the fest was organized in a time of nearby crises in Europe plus record levels of inflation hitting the region, and fallout from the Hollywood actors strike.
“It’s hard to say these things were really helping us,” notes Kazik Suwala, one of the festival’s key organizers and director of its most ambitious project, the construction of the European Film Center, which broke ground in October. “It was a tough year to work,” as he puts it. “The preparations were much harder than usual. Getting movies programmed involved much more time.”
Thus, Zydowicz and Suwala confess to feeling a bit of extra pride in pulling off a...
Launching in the historic town of Torun on Nov. 11, the 31st edition of the fest was organized in a time of nearby crises in Europe plus record levels of inflation hitting the region, and fallout from the Hollywood actors strike.
“It’s hard to say these things were really helping us,” notes Kazik Suwala, one of the festival’s key organizers and director of its most ambitious project, the construction of the European Film Center, which broke ground in October. “It was a tough year to work,” as he puts it. “The preparations were much harder than usual. Getting movies programmed involved much more time.”
Thus, Zydowicz and Suwala confess to feeling a bit of extra pride in pulling off a...
- 11/6/2023
- by Will Tizard
- Variety Film + TV
The 31st edition of the Camerimage Film Festival, Europe’s top cinematography event, will welcome a host of stellar guests to the Gothic Polish town of Torun, including Adam Driver, Sean Penn and Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences CEO Bill Kramer.
Driver and Penn will screen their latest films, respectively, the high-octane biopic “Ferrari” and the portrait of Eastern Europe’s most remarkable wartime president, Volodymyr Zelensky, “Superpower.”
As regular fest guests have learned, the calendar of film screenings is just as important to study as the schedule for panels, seminars and masterclasses. That’s because Camerimage, with limited event space for now, strategically holds filmmaker talks following film projections, often in the same hall of the Jordanki cinema space.
Which means opening-night audiences who linger after Camerimage screens Robbie Ryan-shot “Poor Things,” the Frankenstein-esque fairytale by Yorgos Lanthimos, starring Emma Stone, will be able to...
Driver and Penn will screen their latest films, respectively, the high-octane biopic “Ferrari” and the portrait of Eastern Europe’s most remarkable wartime president, Volodymyr Zelensky, “Superpower.”
As regular fest guests have learned, the calendar of film screenings is just as important to study as the schedule for panels, seminars and masterclasses. That’s because Camerimage, with limited event space for now, strategically holds filmmaker talks following film projections, often in the same hall of the Jordanki cinema space.
Which means opening-night audiences who linger after Camerimage screens Robbie Ryan-shot “Poor Things,” the Frankenstein-esque fairytale by Yorgos Lanthimos, starring Emma Stone, will be able to...
- 11/6/2023
- by Will Tizard
- Variety Film + TV
Poland’s Camerimage film festival was in full swing with a packed-out screening of Top Gun: Maverick and a masterclass hosted by Baz Luhrmann when news broke that a missile had struck within the country, killing two people.
The missile landed outside the rural Polish village of Przewodow, on the Ukrainian border. The circumstances surrounding the incident, which marks the first time the territory of a NATO country has been directly hit during the almost nine-month conflict with Russia, remain unclear. It is not known who fired the missile or precisely where it was fired from, though the Polish Foreign Ministry has described it as “Russian-made.” Russia has intensified missile strikes this week in Ukraine.
Speaking at the G20 meeting in Bali, Indonesia, after convening an emergency meeting of western leaders, Joe Biden said the missile was unlikely to have been fired from Russia due to its trajectory.
Early on Wednesday morning,...
The missile landed outside the rural Polish village of Przewodow, on the Ukrainian border. The circumstances surrounding the incident, which marks the first time the territory of a NATO country has been directly hit during the almost nine-month conflict with Russia, remain unclear. It is not known who fired the missile or precisely where it was fired from, though the Polish Foreign Ministry has described it as “Russian-made.” Russia has intensified missile strikes this week in Ukraine.
Speaking at the G20 meeting in Bali, Indonesia, after convening an emergency meeting of western leaders, Joe Biden said the missile was unlikely to have been fired from Russia due to its trajectory.
Early on Wednesday morning,...
- 11/16/2022
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
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Sam Mendes spoke of his collaborations with cinematographers from Conrad Hall to Roger Deakins, while also voicing support for Ukraine, during the opening ceremony of the 30th EnergaCamerimage international cinematography film festival.
Saturday in Toruń, Poland, the Academy Award-winning helmer accepted the Special Krzysztof Kieslowski Award for a Director while acknowledging that “it’s difficult to speak of celebration” after hearing from and seeing images of those in Ukraine that were presented during the ceremony. “I made a movie (1917) with Roger [Deakins] about two young men caught up in a senseless war. The question I got asked over and over again is, ‘Is this relevant?’ I’m afraid to say, it is and it will always be. We stand with everyone in Ukraine.”
He acknowledged the cinematographers with whom he has worked, starting with the late Hall, who won Oscars for Mendes’ first two movies,...
Sam Mendes spoke of his collaborations with cinematographers from Conrad Hall to Roger Deakins, while also voicing support for Ukraine, during the opening ceremony of the 30th EnergaCamerimage international cinematography film festival.
Saturday in Toruń, Poland, the Academy Award-winning helmer accepted the Special Krzysztof Kieslowski Award for a Director while acknowledging that “it’s difficult to speak of celebration” after hearing from and seeing images of those in Ukraine that were presented during the ceremony. “I made a movie (1917) with Roger [Deakins] about two young men caught up in a senseless war. The question I got asked over and over again is, ‘Is this relevant?’ I’m afraid to say, it is and it will always be. We stand with everyone in Ukraine.”
He acknowledged the cinematographers with whom he has worked, starting with the late Hall, who won Oscars for Mendes’ first two movies,...
- 11/12/2022
- by Carolyn Giardina
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Since 1993, Poland’s Camerimage film festival has followed a circular path, launching in the medieval city of Toruń, then moving the festivities first to Łódź and then to Bydgoszcz, before completing a full revolution with a return to its original, historic site.
Per the festival brass, the cinematography showcase’s peripatetic nature for the past three decades has above all stemmed from a simple desire to set down where roots could grow. “From the very beginning, our dream was to hold this festival in its own, proper location,” says Camerimage founder Marek Zydowicz. “To have a dedicated space that runs all year long, offering education, and showing films that represent our values. Because thus far, we’ve always been moving, looking for that best place.”
Now aiming for a late 2025 opening, the festival’s flagship European Film Center project will keep its doors open all-year long to the industry professionals...
Per the festival brass, the cinematography showcase’s peripatetic nature for the past three decades has above all stemmed from a simple desire to set down where roots could grow. “From the very beginning, our dream was to hold this festival in its own, proper location,” says Camerimage founder Marek Zydowicz. “To have a dedicated space that runs all year long, offering education, and showing films that represent our values. Because thus far, we’ve always been moving, looking for that best place.”
Now aiming for a late 2025 opening, the festival’s flagship European Film Center project will keep its doors open all-year long to the industry professionals...
- 10/28/2022
- by Ben Croll
- Variety Film + TV
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