Transatlantyk Festival

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Transatlantyk Festival
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Location Łódź, (previously: Poznań and Rozbitek), Poland
Website http://transatlantyk.org/en

The Transatlantyk Festival (previously: Transatlantyk - Poznań International Film and Music Festival) is an annual film festival held in Łódź (from 2011 to 2015 in Poznań and Rozbitek, Poland).

The founder and director of the festival is polish composer Jan A. P. Kaczmarek.

Transatlantyk poster (by Tomasz Opasiński) was among The Hollywood Reporter Key Art Awards finalists (in 2011[1]) and Bronze Winners (in 2012[2]).

Sections

  • Cinema: different sections (local and international movies, according to genres, problems and origin).
  • Culinary Cinema (in cooperation with Berlinale Festival).
  • Open-Air Cinema.
  • Workshops: Master Classes (lectures, seminars and workshops), which took place in Poznań and Rozbitek, in collaboration with Instytut Rozbitek.[3][4]
  • Music events: music competitions events, concerts.

Awards

  • Transatlantyk Young Composer Award - for the best composer of the music for two short films.[5]
  • Transatlantyk Instant Composer 2012 - for the winner ("the composers will watch a short film clip and then will have to instantly compose a corresponding piano piece - all on stage while being watched by the audience. Those live improvisations will be judged by a jury"[6]).

Both of them are for composers who are not yet of 35 years of age.

  • Glocal Hero Award - for "people of outstanding personalities, whose local and global activities shape the face of the modern world".[7]

Editions

  • The first edition of the Festival took place between 5 and 13 August 2011.[8]
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Transatlantyk poster 2011
  • Sections during the 1st edition:
    • Cinema: Transatlantyk Panorama, Transatlantyk Spotlight, Different America, 10 German Voices, Transatlantyk for Children, Transatlantyk Art, Miloš Forman Retrospective, Arab Revolutions: Before and Now, Season, Transatlantyk Docs, Transatlantyk Docs Wall Street Story, New Scandinavian Cinema, B Movies: "Passion and Nausea", Culture Passage,
    • Culinary Cinema (in cooperation with Berlinale Festival),
    • Open-Air Cinema,
    • Music Events: festival premieres of Jan A.P. Kaczmarek’s "Yankiel’s Concerto" and "Open Window" (performed by Leszek Możdżer), concerts of: Belarusian cimbalom players "Wasilinki", Rozbitek Symphony Orchestra (conducted by Adam Banaszak), Silesian String Quartet (played Kaczmarek’s string quartets, including the Polish premiere of quartets from Hisako Matsui’s Japanese-American film “Leonie”), concert of Balanescu Quartet,
    • Master Classes (lectures, seminars and workshops): film music composition and production, Instant music composition (speaking the language of music in real-time), film production, video arts, computer animation, graphics and design, script writing, the art of acting.[9]

The Glocal Hero Award: Bjørn Lomborg (a Danish academic and environmental writer).

  • The second edition of the Festival took place from 15–22 August 2012.[10][11]
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Transatlantyk poster 2012
  • Sections during the 2nd edition:
    • Cinema: Transatlantyk Eko, Transatlantyk Docs 2012, Wall Street Story, Transatlantyk Panorama, Transatlantyk Confrontations, New German Cinema, New Scandinavian Cinema, Arab Revolution: Before and Now, Alfred Hitchcock: Retrospective, B Movies, Bike Movies, Transatlantyk Art, New Polish Documentary, Beyond the Genre: Science-Fiction, Transatlantyk Season, Oscar 2012 Foreign Languages Nominees, Transatlantyk for Children.
    • Culinary Cinema (in cooperation with Berlinale Festival),
    • Open-Air Cinema: Baltic (first 50 Bed Open Air Cinema[12][13]),
    • Music Events,
    • Theater events,
    • Master Classes (lectures, seminars and workshops).

The Glocal Hero Award: Elżbieta and Krzysztof Penderecki (a Polish composer and conductor).

  • The third edition of the Festival took place from 2–9 August 2013.
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Transatlantyk poster 2013
  • Sections during the 3rd edition:
    • Cinema: Transatlantyk Panorama, Sundance at Transatlantyk, New German Cinema, Cinematic Journey of the Master - Stanley Kubrick, New Scandinavian Cinema, Road Movies - "Skoda Recommends!", Mobile Cinema Skoda, Oscar 2013 - Nominees for Best Documentary Features, Transatlantyk Docs, Transatlantyk Eco, Transatlantyk Art, Sacrum in Cinema, Transatlantyk Confrontations, Bike Movies, Season, Special Screenings, Beyond the Genre: Superhero, B Movies, Transatlantyk for Children,
    • Culinary Cinema (in cooperation with Berlinale Festival),
    • Open-Air Cinema at Plac Wolności,
    • Music Events (Yoko Ono and Thurston Moore, 35th Anniversary of Varèse Sarabande),
    • Master Classes (lectures, seminars and workshops).

The Glocal Hero Award: Yoko Ono.

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