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Q&A with EO Filmmaker Jerzy Skolimowski and Co-Screenwriter/Producer
Ewa Piaskowska
Friday, November 18
7:00
NOTE: This screening is SOLD OUT.
A standby line will form at the box office 30 minutes prior to showtime.
Jerzy Skolimowski is one of the most acclaimed directors in postwar European cinema. With over twenty films to his name, Skolimowski’s work as director includes the Berlin Golden Bear winner THE DEPARTURE, Cannes Grand Prix winner THE SHOUT, the political drama MOONLIGHTING, and THE LIGHTSHIP, for which he won Best Director at the Venice Film Festival. He has also received the Lifetime Achievement Golden Lion from the Venice Film Festival. He is also known as a writer for his work on INNOCENT SORCERER (1960) and KNIFE IN THE WATER (1962).
After a hiatus from directing, Skolimowski returned to Cannes in 2008 with the critically lauded thriller FOUR NIGHTS WITH ANNA, which opened the Director’s Fortnight and also won the Grand Prix de Jury at the Tokyo International Film Festival. in 2010 Skolimowski’s ESSENTIAL KILLING won the Special Jury Prizeat the Venice International Film Festival. In 2016, Skolimowski received the Lifetime Achievement Golden Lion from the Venice Film Festival.
As an actor, Skolimowski has appeared in WHITE NIGHTS, EASTERN PROMISES, BEFORE NIGHT FALLS and THE AVENGERS.
Skolimowski is an accomplished painter who has taken part in the Venice Biennale and exhibited across Europe and the US.
Ewa Piaskowska has produced the last four Jerzy Skolimowski’s films, and co-wrote three of them.
She is the co-owner of Skopia Film.
She is a graduate in Art History from the University of Warsaw and the Film, Television, Video and New Media program at UCLA.
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