The doc­u­ment­ary film dir­ec­ted by Karo­lina Bielawska and Julia Ruszkiewicz will com­pete for Inter­na­tional Grand Prix for Author’s Doc­u­ment­ary, that is the pres­ti­gi­ous award of Monte-​Carlo Tele­vi­sion Festival.

Grand Prix for Author’s Doc­u­ment­ary award has been given by the Uni­versité Radio­pho­nique et Télévisuelle Inter­na­tionale (URTI) since 1981. As the founders emphas­ise, this kind of award goes to the dir­ector whose doc­u­ment­ary is a mix of a fas­cin­at­ing sub­ject and the author’s tech­nique and exper­i­ence.

The Grand Prix for Author’s Doc­u­ment­ary statuette and 10,000 $ award will be given dur­ing the Monte-​Carlo TV Fest­ival, which will take place from 6 – 10 June.

Among the films nom­in­ated for the Grand Prix award there is the doc­u­ment­ary “Warsaw Avail­able” by Karo­lina Bielawska and Julia Ruszkiewicz. The films shows a story of three girls from the former state farm vil­lages, set­ting out to con­quer the “great wide world”, which Warsaw is for them.

In addi­tion, two doc­u­ment­ar­ies pro­duced by Pol­ish Tele­vi­sion “An Amer­ican in the Com­mun­ist Poland” by Piotr Mor­awski and Rysz­ard Kaczyński and “Dad from behind the Iron Cur­tain” by Krzysztof Rzączyński were qual­i­fied for the com­pet­i­tion pro­gramme of the Monte-​Carlo TV Fest­ival – ”New Doc­u­ment­ar­ies”.

More inform­a­tion can be found here.
  (06.05.2010)