I would like to share with you a backstage view of making the feature-length documentary Lessons of Love. It is a project that was made in an unusual way, as all the divisions of roles in the crew had to be invented from scratch. I believe it was the only way to make an award-winning film out of something that started as a small artistic project. I’d like to inspire a discussion about the role of the producer in the documentary process, but also about stepping out of your role and its consequences; about the mistakes you wish to avoid; and why you can only make a film this way once in your life.
Speaker: Anna Stylińska
Anna Stylińska is a documentary filmmaker and independent producer. She graduated from Cinema Studies (University Paris X) and the Creative Producer’s Course (the Wajda School), photography and philosophy. She has gathered experience in different areas of cinema production as a production manager, co-director, first AD, screenwriter and manager of а film festival. Her feature-length debut Lessons of Love, made in co-production with HBO Europe, premiered at IDFA and travelled to 40 festivals around the world. Now she’s working on a documentary musical entitled Wika! directed by Agnieszka Zwiefka (Queen of Silence), and her first fiction film which will be developed as part of EAVE 2021.
This workshop is organised in partnership with the Adam Mickiewicz Institute and DOC LAB Poland.
