Camerimage to Honor Jerzy Skolimowski, Director of Cannes Winner “EO”

EnergaCamerimage, the cinematography-focused movie pageant about to happen in Torun, Poland on Nov. 12-19, will bestow certainly one of its highest honors to writer-director Jerzy Skolimowski, who will obtain the Marshal of the Kujawsko-Pomorskie Area Movie Award 2022.

Skolimowski, a longtime stalwart of Polish cinema, made information in Cannes earlier this yr when “EO,” which he wrote and directed, shared the pageant’s Jury Prize. The movie follows the titular donkey, kidnapped from his beloved circus-performer proprietor by animal rights activists, as he endures the complete gamut of human conduct, good and unhealthy.  It’s a narrative of individuals’s hopes and goals, mirrored through the attitude of a donkey. At Cannes it delighted viewers with the spectacle of youthful filmic vitality created by an 84-year-old grasp of European cinema.

Not surprisingly, “EO” was chosen in August by the Polish Movie Institute because the nation’s candidate for this yr’s Oscar race.

The filmmaker will obtain his Camerimage award through the pageant’s jubilee version. Will probably be introduced to him by Marshal Piotr Całbecki simply earlier than a particular screening of “IO.”

Skolimowski started his movie profession as a screenwriter of such movies as “Harmless Sorcerers” (1960) and “Knife within the Water” (1962)” – a part of the outburst of creativity often called the Polish New Wave, which itself was symbolic of Japanese European artwork flourishing beneath a repressive Soviet-dominated regime. He then discovered success as an actor, director, poet and painter. His movies took dwelling accolades from such movie festivals as Venice and Berlin, along with Cannes.

The screening of “EO” at Camerimage will probably be open to all members of the American Movie Academy taking part within the Pageant. Skolimowski will even obtain a monetary award, which he has determined to spend solely on the promotion of “EO” to boost the movie’s probabilities of securing an Academy Award® nomination. A Q&A with the filmmaker will comply with the screening.