Pop Up Film Residency Unveils Summer 2023 Participants And Mentors
04.07.2023 - 07:07
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EXCLUSIVE: The Europe-based Pop Up Film Residency mentorship program has unveiled the filmmakers and mentors who will participate in its summer 2023 edition.
The program, which is among several feature development initiatives spearheaded by former TorinoFilmLab artistic director Matthieu Darras, consists of three-week residencies focused on mentoring filmmakers through the development of a feature project. Darras works together with Polish producers Iza Igel and Marta Lewandowska. This year the residency will be mounted in Warsaw and Wroclaw, Poland, from July 4 — 25.
Mentors for the upcoming edition include Polish director Anna Jadowska (Woman On The Roof, Tribeca 2022), Ukrainian director Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk (Pamfir, Cannes 2022), Polish director Aleksandra Terpinska (Other People, Tallinn 2021), Hungarian—Canadian writer/director Anita Doron (The Breadwinner, 2017), Script consultants Michaela Sabo and Aleksandra Swierk, and Lithuanian producer Marija Razgute (Slow, Sundance, Karlovy Vary 2023).
Five feature directors will join the program, including Polish filmmaker Katarzyna Trzaska, whose last feature, Nauka Latania, screened at the Warsaw Film Festival. She will develop her new feature Against the Grain, which tells the story of Gaba, a nail specialist from the city of Lodz, whose daily routine circles among clients in the beauty salon and her working-class family and friends. Her life turns upside down when she meets Zocha, a radical feminist activist from a wealthy family who wants to change the world for the better.
For the first time this year, a project from Ukraine will join the residency. Filmmaker Alina Matochkina will join the program with Mother, a feature set in Kyiv in 2016. The plot follows