Friday (18th of May) | 7:00 p.m. | Lower Silesian Film Centre, Warsaw Room
In Polish
Tickets available at the cinema box office
Grand Prix of Lower Silesia for the creator of the winning film.
After the ceremony we would like to invite you to the film “Grace Jones – Bloodlight and Bami”.
The Jury will include: Maciej Kurowicki, Jarosław Perduta, Magda Piekarska, Arkadiusz Wojnarowski
Maciej Kurowicki – born in 1970, citizen of Poland and Canada. Photojournalist in the years 1988-1994. A leader and author, lead singer of the band HURT. Participant of the music project “Evorevo” with Igor Pudło and Tomasz Janiszewski.
Jarosław Perduta – director of the Lower Silesian Film Centre, manager associated with public institutions, specialist in communication and social dialogue, used to be a journalist and television producer, an active member of non-governmental organizations engaged in cultural projects, social and educational projects both local and international, creator and coordinator of social campaigns, graduate of international programs (Birmingham, Dortmund, Dresden).
Magda Piekarska – from Zielona Góra by birth, from Wrocław by choice, graduate of Polish
Philology at University of Wrocław with specialization in film studies. Journalist of “Gazeta Wyborcza” in Wrocław, where she publishes articles in the subject of culture and sociology, including theatrical and literary reviews. Since January 2015 she is involved in leading a stage theatre radio program at Radio Wrocław Kultura.
Arkadiusz Wojnarowski – born in 1973 in Wrocław, in the years 1982-1990 a child film actor (among others: “If We Find Each Other”, “Children from the Valley of Mills”, “Janka”). Trained as a lawyer in Poland and Germany (European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder) and Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan). Distributor and film producer (Lodz Film School and Sorbonne 1 in Paris) among many others of the popular and awarded Polish-Romanian animation “Crulic – The Path to Beyond”. Member of the European Film Academy and Polish Filmmakers Association. Lecturer of film and television production at the University of Wrocław. Lecturer at the SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities, where he teaches advertising, visual narration, storyboarding and copyright law. Author of the book “Legal and Financial Principles of European Co-Production” (Lodz Film School Publishing 2009). He is working on a doctorate on the subject of screenwriting in Polish film. Founder of the Magellan Film Foundation. Art director of the Silesia Film Group.
About the film “Grace Jones – Bloodlight and Bami”:
The stage is where her most extreme embodiments are realised and her theatrical imagination lets loose: this is where the musical of her life is played out. The film includes Grace’s unique performances singing iconic hits such as Slave To The Rhythm, Pull Up To The Bumper, as well as the more recent autobiographical tracks Williams’ Bloods and Hurricane. These personal songs also link to Grace’s family life, as the film takes us on a holiday road trip across Jamaica, where her family roots and the story of her traumatic childhood are uncovered.
In Jamaican patois, ‘Bloodlight’ is the red light that illuminates when an artist is recording and ‘Bami’ means bread, the substance of daily life. GRACE JONES: BLOODLIGHT AND BAMI weaves together the layers of Grace Jones’ public and private life, as she moves effortlessly between different facets: she is bohemian traveller, artist and partying hedonist, warm and funny but also a fierce and tenacious businesswoman. The performance continues to move thematically though the film, with Love Is The Drug acting like an aria, bringing the film to its final and most touching scenes. This is a Grace we have not seen before, someone who reminds us of what it is to dare to be truly alive.
