Bydgoszcz ART.DOC Award

Like every year, during the Bydgoszcz edition of the Millennium Docs Against Gravity Film Festival, a three-person jury will award the Bydgoszcz ART.DOC Award worth EUR 2,000 to the director of the best film chosen from the selection of productions presented in the international Main Competition of the festival.

Another Bydgoszcz tradition is the annual honorary award for the best film addressing the issue of human rights, awarded by a representative of the District Bar Council in Bydgoszcz who is a jury member.

Jury:

Stanisław Cuske is a cinematographer and documentary film director. He graduated from the Krzysztof Kieślowski Film School in Katowice with a degree in cinematography. His films have received numerous awards at many prestigious film festivals. He also worked as a cameraman for Łukasz Żal's latest film by Jonathan Glazer, "The Zone of Interest." He is currently working on two documentary feature films in Cuba and South Africa.

Katarzyna Marcysiak is a documentary filmmaker, journalist and publicist. For the last twenty-five years, she has worked for the Polish Television. She made several hundred television programmes, reportages and documentaries. She was the author of acclaimed television interviews, the last of which, "Kultowe rozmowy", was published as a book. In 2016, she resigned from her job at TVP. She moved to India, where she made several documentaries. She currently divides her life between a country house by the Vistula River and a flat in New Delhi.

Andrzej Kaliski has been a lawyer since 2005. He is a member of the Bydgoszcz Bar Association and a postgraduate student of production at the Polish National Film School in Łódź. Interested in visual arts, he creates computer graphics and produces experimental films. For many years, he has been involved in the artistic projects of the Bydgoszcz-based Czarny Karzeł Foundation.