Prix VIsionica

PRIX VISIONICA - Pre-Selection Committee

Barbara Trzeciak-Pietkiewicz

A graduate of the Wrocław Univieristy Law School, Barbara Trzeciak-Pietkiewicz started her professional career in Polish Radio Wroclaw, and later got involved in TV journalism. From 1978 to 1981 she was programming secretary of Polish National Television (TVP) in Wroclaw, but during martial law period she was dismissed from TVP and interned. In 1989, as a member of  the Solidarity Civic Committee, Trzeciak-Pietkiewicz was anchorperson of the “Solidarity Studio” program.  In 1990 she became a director of Radio and Television in Wroclaw; within one year she had reformed the Wroclaw branch of TVP and made it the leading regional TVP station in Poland. In 1991 Marian Terlecki appointed her director of TVP Channel 2.  After resigning from that post Trzeciak-Pietkiewicz went on to become one of the organizers of Polsat Television, where she served as the first programming director; in 2003,  she became president of the board of TV 4. She is currently a member of the supervisory board of ATM Grupa, a private television production company.

 

Jerzy Szota

Born in 1955, Jerzy Szota is a graduate of the Radio & Television Faculty at Silesian University in Katowice, and has been associated with the Wrocław branch of TVP since 1976. He has worked as an editor, cameraman and computer effects specialist.
Szota has extensive training in vision editing and computer graphics, and in the course of his lengthy professional career he has produced musical recitals, video clips, television-theater plays and many animated credits for national television programs. From 2000 to 2003, Szota was in charge of visual graphic design for many programs for TVP 3 (a regional channel), including the WRO International Biennale for Media Art broadcasts.  
As an editor, Szota has developed many award-winning films and documentary series, including Michael’s Life, Catchpoles (directed by Beata Januchta) and The Matrix Generation (directed by Jacek Lechtański), and about forty TV theater plays produced in collaboration with many renowned directors, such as Cosmos (directed by Eugeniusz Korin), Roberto Zucco (Maciej Dejczer) and Iron Construction (Sylwester Checiński).

 

Lambros Ziotas

Born in 1956, Lambros Ziotas is a graduate of the Professional College for Television Production at the National Film, Television & Theatre School in Łódź.  Ziotas is an editor, producer and  executive producer and owner of the Agromedia Production Company. Ziotas has produced many films, television-theater plays and programs for TVP, including TV films by Jan Jakub Kolski; Astrid Lindgren’s World by Zbigniew Dzięgiel; and The Mandaeans: The Last Gnostics in Iran, a two-part film developed in co-production with the Jerzy Grotowski Institute, which he co-directed with Jarosław Fret.  Among the television-theater plays Ziotas has produced are The Island of Roses by Slawomir Mrozek; Fiddles and The Dream Camera directed by Jan Jakub Kolski; An Old  Woman Broods by Tadeusz Rozewicz, directed by Filip Bajon; he was also a producer and organizer of a jubilee concert for Tadeusz Rozewicz’s 80th anniversary.

Ziotas has also produced television programs like Poland: World 2000 (a cycle of 40 statements from outstanding representatives of Polish science, culture and politics, including Leszek Kolakowski, Lech Wałęsa, Czeslaw Milosz and Aleksander Kwaśniewski) and More or Better (a 15-part series focussing on ecology.  Ziotas's most recent work is Filip Bajon's film The Foundation, currently in post-production.

 

Piotr Krajewski

Artistic Director of Prix Visionica  

Curator, critic and lecturer, expert in issues of contemporary art and media culture, Piotr Krajewski completed his degree in Theory of Culture at Wrocław University in 1980. In 1989 Krajewski co-founded the WRO International Biennale for Media Art, and he serves as artistic director of that festival to the present day.  Krajewski has curated numerous exhibitions and media presentations in Poland and abroad, including exhibitions at the Kunsthalle in Vienna and the National Museum in Wroclaw; and he has served as juror at many international festivals, including Transmediale (Berlin 2002), Internationale Kurzfilmtage (Oberhausen 2004), the  European Media Art Festival (Osnabrueck (2006). In collaboration with Violetta Kutlubasis-Krajewska, he has developed over 200 television programs devoted to media art and culture broadcast on TVP's Channel 2.

Krajewski has authored texts published in Poland, Austria, Germany, Brazil, the UK, the US  and Japan; he has given lectures worldwide, including presentations at conferences at Tate Modern in London and Centre George Pompidou in Paris; in 2005 he served as European Union expert in the Culture 2000 grant program.  Krajewski is currently a lecturer at the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznań and at the Cultural Studies Department of Wrocław University.  He is a member of the AICA, a member of the Programming Board of the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, and a member of the board of the Lower Silesian Fine Arts Association Zachęta.

 

Anna Ejsmont

Secretary of the Prix Visionica Pre-Selection Committee

Born in 1984, Anna Ejsmont is a graduate of the Comprehensive School of Fine Arts in Wrocław and has completed the National Study Program for Cultural Organizers with a specialization in film.  She is currently studying at Wrocław University's Department of Cultural Studies.  

Ejsmont is active – both as a practitioner and researcher – in the field of short film and video: clips, TV spots, motion graphics and above all animated films.  She is interested in both traditional and digital media, as well as in the consequences of their permeation. In addition to her own creative work, which encompasses commercial and non-commercial productions, including a series of TV spots  and opening credits for independent film groups from Wroclaw. she specializes in the digitization of archival audiovisual materials