The four feature films co-financed by the Silesia Film Fund (www.silesiafilm.com.pl) include:
- Psie Pole (Dog's Field) directed by Lech Majewski and produced by GFM Grupa Fresh Media (www.grupafreshmedia.pl).
- Ezi, a drama directed by Maciej Pieprzyca, a young Polish filmmaker and author of several independent films, and produced by Movie Studio Kalejdoskop (www.kalejdoskop.art.pl).
- Chce się żyć (The Will to Live) directed by Maciej Pieprzyca, author of highly praised drama Splinters (2008), and produced by a Polish company Tramway (www.tramway.pl).
- Piata pora roku (The Fifth Season of the Year), a drama directed by Jerzy Domaradzki, an experienced Polish filmmaker known for his films The Big Race (1986) and Three Mills ( 987), and produced by WFDiF (www.wfdif.com.pl).
The three documentary films are:
- Światła Saturna (Lights Of Saturn) directed by Jadwiga Kocur and produced by Faron Sławomir Faroń (www.faron.pl)
- Kandydatka do Oscara - Barbara Ptak, (Oscar Candidate - Barbara Ptak) directed by Krzysztof Korwin Piotrowski and produced by TVP (www.tvp.pl)
- Krystyna (Christine) directed by Bożena Klimus and Grazyna Ogrodowska and produced by TVP (www.tvp.pl)
The financing of each project will be individually set after the meetings of the Fund representatives with production companies.
The projects were graded by an expert committee of Polish filmmakers, film professionals and film critics including Joanna Kos-Krauze, Magdalena Łazarkiewicz, Anna Więckowska, Dorota Ostrowska-Orlińska, Irena Strzałkowska, Ewa Sałużanka, Andrzej Fidyk, Witold Giersz, Andrzej Kołodyński, Marcin Wrona, Bartek Konopka, Wojciech Kuczok, Piotr Zawojski, Jerzy Armata, Ernest Wilde, Andrzej Ramlau, Jacek Petrycki, Michał Zabłocki, Maciej Ślesicki and Piotr Dumała.
Silesia Film Fund was established in 2008 to support projects connected to the Silesia region by their subject, place of production or the filmmakers involved. The Fund co-financed several successful projects including Drowsiness directed by Magdalena Piekorz, The Public Depravity directed by Maciej Prykowski, Eve directed by Adam Sikora and The Mole directed by Rafael Lewandowski, which screened this year's Main Competition at the Polish Film Festival in Gdynia (www.fpff.pl).
