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Yesterday (13/10/22) was held the Grand Video Awards gala for the most creative video creators on the Internet. Of course, we couldn't miss it! The Warsaw Film School was once again a partner of the event and presented its Award as a part of the Competition.

The Warsaw Film School is everywhere where stories are told, following and appreciating the great video creators on the web. We do not limit ourselves to the creators of "big-screen" cinema. We are open to new technologies, new communication channels and innovative forms of storytelling in any format. We educate youtubers, tik-tokers and even VR creators. At our School, we're focusing on the creative minds that narrates their stories on many platforms and in various forms.

Deputy Rector Ewa Maria Szczepanowska with the Winner of the Warsaw Film School Award, Kamil Wójcik

Photo: Michał Sierszak / Warsaw Film School

As part of the prestigious Grand Video Awards, as usual, our facility also presented its Award. 

As the host of the gala Damian Michałowski said:

'The Special Award of the Warsaw Film School, a one-year directing and cinematography course or editing course, to choose from, is an award for an exceptional person in whom professional filmmakers have noticed »that something«. And what is »that something«, I always ask the guest who will appear on our stage in a moment, Ewa Maria Szczepanowska, Deputy Rector of the Warsaw Film School'.

Photo: Michał Sierszak / Warsaw Film School

Our representative soon joined the host and announced the verdict and the statement to the audience: 

“At the Warsaw Film School, we teach storytelling. Students form the so-called two-minute films, because it is not an easy to tell a story in such a short form' emphasized the Deputy Rector. 'And the artist who will be awarded this year has done it perfectly. For an interesting and creative implementation of the idea, for leaving room for the viewer's imagination and for the original, characteristic line: Kamil Wójcik, »Nocny pociąg bez mięsa« (»Night Train Without Meat«)'.

As Ewa Maria Szczepanowska later said in an interview for the Press magazine: 'This one-and-a-half-minute form shows in a creative and condensed way what we showed in the first full-length production of the Warsaw Film School entitled »The Land«, which you had the opportunity to see at the cinema, as well as on Netflix. And here, in one animated video, without any dialogue, the artist shows all our Polish frustration and Polish rage'. 

While handing the Winner a symbolic, wooden film slate with the logo of the School, our Deputy Rector invited him to our doorstep: 'Welcome at the Warsaw Film School!'. 

Photo: Michał Sierszak / Warsaw Film School