29-09-2011

PRODUCTION: TVP Shoots Doc on Costume Designer

By Katarzyna Grynienko

    WARSAW: Polish public broadcaster TVP is completing shooting on Oscar Candidate: Barbara Ptak, a documentary devoted to one of the legends of Polish film and television costume design.

    The second part of the principal shoot for the documentary launched in a heritage park in Chorzów on 30 April 2011. Production included several additional shoots with recording artists and filmmakers who worked with Ptak. The film was shot in location in Silesia, Lodz, Krakow and Warsaw.

    The director of the documentary is Krzysztof Korwin Piotrowski, the artistic director of the Music Theather in Gliwice and a filmmaker connected to TVP Katowice. He previously made several documentary films about prominent Polish artists such as Jan Nowak-Jeziorański, Tadeusz Różewicz and Wojciech Pszoniak.

    Ptak is a renowned Polish costume designer who worked on over 70 feature films and 130 theater plays in Poland, Germany and Italy. In the 50 years of her career she created tens of thousands of costumes, some of them for films nominated for the Academy Awards Oscar including The Promised Land ( 1974) directed by Andrzej Wajda, Pharaoh (1966) directed by Jerzy Kawalerowicz, Knife In The Water (1962) directed by Roman Polański and Night And Days (1975) directed by Jerzy Antczak.

    The film is produced by TVP Katowice (www.tvp.pl) and co-financed by the City Of Katowice and by TVP 2. The film also received 100,000 PLN in financial support from the Silesia Film Fund (www.silesiafilm.com.pl).

    The premiere of the film is planned for November 2011.