The Polish Film Institute continues to be the main source of production and film promotion funding in Poland. In 2015, the Institute granted 102 m PLN (23.4 m EUR) for film production. The first session for the Operation Programme Film Production launched on 14 December and will be open till 7 January 2016. The second session will take place between 1 and 15 April 2016 and the third between 1 and 15 August 2016. The Institute also provides funding for education and film culture popularization, cinema development and promotion of Polish cinema abroad. The Institute announced a full list of experts who will judge the projects applying for financing, approved by the Minister of Culture and National Heritage Piotr Gliński.
The list of leaders of expert committees includes:
Leaders of Polish Film Institute expert committees:
Production : Feature film
Committee 1
Ryszard Bugajski
Committee 2
Mariusz Grzegorzek
Committee 3
Jan Jakub Kolski
Committee 4
Alessandro Leone
Committee 5
Wojciech Nowak
Committee 6
Magdalena Piekorz
Committee 7 - minority international co production
Andrzej Jakimowski
Production and project development: feature films and animated films for young and family audiences
Committee 1
Maciej Wojtyszko
Production: Documentary film
Committee 1
Jacek Bławut
Committee 2
Maria Dłużewska
Committee 3
Anna Ferens
Committee 4
Marcel Łoziński
Committee 5
Wojciech Staroń
Committee 6
Andrzej Wyrozębski
Production: Animated film
Committee 1
Tomasz Bagiński
Committee 2
Andrzej Gosieniecki
Committee 3
Krzysztof Kiwerski
Scholarships and project development: feature film
Committee 1
Joanna Kos-Krauze
Committee 2
Jarosław Sokół
Committee 3
Wojciech Tomczyk
Scholarships and project development: documentary film
Committee 1
Andrzej Gajewski
Committee 2
Paweł Woldan
Scholarships and project development: animated film
Committee 1
Piotr Dumała
Committee 2
Wojtek Wawszczyk
The full list of PFI experts is available here: http://www.pisf.pl/files/dokumenty/po_2016/po_produkcja_filmowa/Lista_ekspertow_PISF_w_2016_roku.pdf
