WARSAW: The Play Poland Film Festival (http://playpoland.org.uk) will be bring Polish cinema to audiences in Scotland from 2 August to 25 September with screenings in Glasgow and Edinburgh. Sponsored in part by the Polish Film Institute (www.pisf.pl ) the mobile festival will continue in other UK cities including Oxford, Birmingham, Liverpool and Belfast until December 2011.
Fest organizer Mateusz Jarza hopes that the festival will introduce Polish cinema and Polish directors to UK audiences which too often know little about Polish culture. Films to be screened include Jan Kidawa-Blonski’s Little Rose, Ryszard Bugajski’s General Nil, Dominic Matwiejczyk’s Black, Grzegorz Lipiec’s Horizontal 8 and Jacek Koprowicz’s Mystification.
The Film New Europe (FNE) Association is the networking platform for film professionals in the CEE/SEE/Baltics region. The webportal and FNE newswire was chosen as the MAIN TOOL to achieve the network’s objectives of the sharing of know how, visibility of regional cultural diversity and finally the VOICE of the region.
FNE’s objectives include VISIBILITY for the region and AUDIENCES for films by providing a special focus on the region.