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	GOAT WALKER / BALLADA O KOZIE director: Bartek Konopka screenwriter: Bartek Konopka, Piotr Rosołowski produced in: 2004 runtime: 50 cinematography: Piotr Rosołowski editing: Jarosław Barzan production: MS FILMS music: Wojciech Waglewski copy: video The authorities in the Wroclaw region came up with an unconventional idea of helping the poorest. A number of families from the Swidnica area were given a couple of goats from the Wroclaw Academy of Agriculture Experimental Research Centre. The purpose of this gift was to supply the families with cheese and milk. Actually it was much more they encouraged the families to be more active, mutual feelings were forged, and the goats also became an artistic inspiration. Bartek Konopka » Born in 1972 in Myślenice. He obtained degrees in Film Studies from the JagiellonianUniversity, Journalism from WarsawUniversity and Film Directing from the Radio and Television Department of the Silesia University in Katowice. He has made the following documentaries Niebo nad Europą (2003), Goat Walker (2004) and a fiction film entitled Three for the Taking (2006). His films have won awards at festivals in New York, Seattle, Brest, Wrocław and many others. He has received a nomination to Polityka’s Passport, an award of ‘Polityka’ weekly, and a scholarship of the Culture Minister for his artistic achievements as well as the Nipkow Scholarship in Berlin. at festivals: FilmPOLSKA, Germany, 2011 (screening)

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