15 February 2013
The world premiere of „The Mystery of Westerplatte"
In cinemas across Poland the new film scored by Jan - „The Mystery of Westerplatte" by Paweł Chochlew - is now playing!
In cinemas across Poland the new film scored by Jan - „The Mystery of Westerplatte" by Paweł Chochlew - is now playing!
Jan A.P. Kaczmarek was a guest of this year's edition of the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, UT. The Festival, organized by Sundance Institute and founded by Robert Redford, is one of the most important events of American independent cinema. It's worth noting that Sundance Institute has been collaborating with a few of Jan's most notable Polish initiatives for the past few years: Rozbitek Institute, which conducts educational projects for young and gifted screenplay writers, film music composers and directors, as well as the more and more prestigious TRANSATLANTYK International Film and Music Festival, held in Poznan.
The Polish Oscar®-winning composer was invited to take part in the discussion panel „Power of Story: Measure for Measure". He was accompanied by two other distinguished film music composers: Terence Blanchard and Mark Isham. The panel was moderated by Chris Douridas of the KCRW, three-times nominated to Grammy. They discussed the exceptional role of music in a well constructed film story. The guests presented their own experience and views on the subject.
The Rio Grande do Norte Symphonic Orchestra played Jan's music at Teatro Riachuelo in Natal, Brazil, within the 3rd Festival Internacional de Cinema de Baía Formosa.
The composer visited a school in the town neighboring Rozbitek - Kwilcz. He introduced the children to Rozbitek Institute and TRANSATLANTYK Festival and answered all the tough questions of the youngest ones, revolving around music, film and life in general. He also examined the instruments the children prepared at their music lessons.
At the inauguration of the new academic year at The State School of Higher Professional Education in Konin, Poland, the School's new Hall of Teaching and Didactics was given the name of Jan A.P. Kaczmarek. This event was part of celebrating the 15th anniversary of the School's founding in Jan's hometown.
The new film scored by Jan - „The Time Being", directed by Nenad Cicin-Sain - had its premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival.
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Founded by Jan, the Festival gathered over 40 thousand viewers and participants this year! Aside from carrying on with the events that had been hugely popular during the first edition, TRANSATLANTYK also introduced a few novelties - e.g. the first ever Bed-In Open-Air Cinema, which allowed the audience to watch films in beds designed especially for the Festival, equipped with film projectors and soundsystems.
Within the free and open Master Classes, held in Poznan and Rozbitek Institute, outstanding specialists from all film and music professions shared their knowledge and experience with young filmmakers. Two unique film music competitions took place: TRANSATLANTYK Film Music Competition and TRANSATLANTYK Instant Composition Contest (in which the participants had to instantly compose music for a short filmclip they had just seen).
The most important award of the Festival - Glocal Hero Award 2012 - went to Elżbieta and Krzysztof Penderecki. Over 170 films were screened within 18 sections, two theater plays were staged and the biggest festival events were broadcast by TVP. More info at: http://www.transatlantyk.org/en.
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