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SWEET RUSH
Post-film conversation with star Paweł Szajda
Monday, October 19
8:10
Moderated by programmer David Schwartz
Paweł Szajda is a Polish-American film and television actor. Born in Connecticut to Polish parents, he made his feature-film debut in Audrey Wells’s UNDER THE TUSCAN SUN (2003), opposite Diane Lane, and later appeared in HBO’s acclaimed miniseries Generation Kill (2008). In 2009, he made his Polish film debut opposite Krystyna Janda in Andrzej Wajda’s SWEET RUSH (Tatarak), which premiered in competition at the Berlin International Film Festival. He later starred opposite Janusz Gajos and Wojciech Pszoniak in the Polish feature THE WINNER (Wygrany) and appeared in the films OUR KIND OF TRAITOR and IMPERIUM. His television work includes a recurring role as Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Poletov in Apple TV+’s For All Mankind, Albert Maysles in FX’s Feud: Capote vs. The Swans, and, most recently, the acclaimed limited series Dying for Sex.
David Schwartz is an independent film programmer and writer. He was longtime Chief Curator at Museum of the Moving Image, and curated the series A Theater Near You for MoMA.
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