Iwona Schymalla, the Director of TVP1 announced that the public broadcaster is planning to spend 3.5 million PLN on documentary film production in 2012. She also announced that in 2012 TVP (www.tvp.pl) will launch a special documentary series, planned to air every Thursday.

The meeting was a result of the Appeal of Documentary Filmmakers issued by 220 representatives of the genre in February 2011. The Appeal stated that in order to prevent the decrease in quality and quantity of Polish documentaries TVP needs to find funds and a special place for it in the public television line up.

Apart from assigning the funds for production, TVP had also revealed plans for structural changes facilitating more documentary titles being made next year.

"We will gather a pool of projects and work on them as long as it takes, grading them and choosing the ones that are obviously the best. It is especially important to create a lot of films about modern Poland. No one will make movies about Poland for us. It is the responsibility of Polish documentary filmmakers that the sum of movies that we do now will transform into an artistic image of current reality in a couple of years," Andrzej Fidyk, the new director of the Documentary Office, said during the meeting.

TVP is also planning to establish a system of co-operation with the Polish Film Institute ( www.pisf.pl), where both institutions will issue special recommendation letters for especially interesting projects that would benefit from getting production funding from both sources. The representatives of the film community, including Maciej Latałło Maciej Cuske , Maria Zmarz-Koczanowicz , Bartosz Konopka and Konrad Szołajski, suggested establishing a council made up of TVP representatives and PISF experts who would determine the new direction for Polish documentary cinema. The filmmakers will also work on preparing new contract patterns that will facilitate their co-operation with the public broadcaster.