THE GENTLE GIANT
POLISH TITLE: OLBRZYM
The main protagonist of The Gentle Giant is going to take part in a poetry contest. To gather up the courage to come out, he collects the memories from the entire life and fights his own demons. It's a film about one tiny step for mankind, one giant leap for a man.
- GENRE:
- documentary / animation
- COUNTRY:
- POLAND
- RUNNING TIME:
- 11'
- YEAR:
- 2016
- DIRECTING:
- Marcin Podolec
- SCRIPT:
- Marcin Podolec
- DOP:
- Marcin Gierbisz
- EDITOR:
- Marcin Podolec
- MUSIC:
- Rafał Samborski, Piotr Markowicz
- ANIMATION:
- Marcin Podolec, Wiktoria Nowak
- PRODUCTION:
- PWSFTviT (Państwowa Wyższa Szkoła Filmowa, Telewizyjna i Teatralna), FUMI Studio
Marcin Podolec »
Marcin Podolec - born in 1991 in Jarosław, Poland; comic artist, animator, currently works mostly on documentaries and biographies. A graduate (2015) of The Polish National Film School in Lodz (Animation department). His books are published by Kultura Gniewu; co-author of the comic albums: Captain Sheer (2010), Insight (2014) and Sometimes (2011), which was awarded The Comic Book of the Year in Poland; writer and illustrator of All Taken (2012) and Fugazi Music Club (2013), which was sold to several international publishers (Italy, France, Germany, Spain). His short animadoc A Documentary Film (2015) was screened and awarded at many film festivals, such as the DOK Lepizig, SICAF (Seoul) and Clermont-Ferrand Film Festival. His next animated documentary, The Gentle Giant (2016), is his graduate film.
- Kino Fest International Digital Film Festival 2016, Romania, 2016 (screening)
- DOK Leipzig, Germany, 2016 (screening)
- 32nd interfilm, International Short Film Festival Berlin, Germany, 2016 (screening)
- 21st Regard - Saguenay International Short Film Festival, Canada, 2017 (screening)
- 63rd International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film – DOK Leipzig, Germany, 2020 (screening)
- 9th CyBorg Film Festival, Italy, 2016 (competition)
- Animatou - International Animation Film Festival, Switzerland, 2016 (competition)
- Tofuzi 2016, Georgia, 2016 (competition)
- 5th Primanima World Festival For First Animation, HUNGARY, 2016 (competition)
- 9th KLIK! Amsterdam Animation Festival, Holand, 2016 (competition)
- 14th Mumia - Underground World Animation Festival, Brazil, 2016 (competition)
- DocsBarcelona, Spain, 2017 (competition)
- CinEast - Central and Eastern European FF, Luxembourg, 2017 (competition)
- 11th Big Cartoon Festival, Russia, 2017 (competition)
- Alexandre Trauner Art. / Film Festival 2018, Hungary, 2018 (competition)