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Karol Marczak
Profession:
Writer
Country:
Poland
Born in 1995, Karol is Warsaw based writer, specializing in auteur cinema. He graduated in Screenwriting at the National Film School in Łódź in 2022, and in Liberal Arts at the Warsaw University in 2017. He previously worked as a journalist at the Newsweek Poland magazine.
His short film A Beautiful Wildflower Meadow (dir. & co-written by Emi Buchwald) was screened at various festivals worldwide, including Palm Springs Int’l Shortfest, Warsaw FF (Best Live Action Short Award), Gdynia FF (Special Jury Award). His debut feature film No Ghosts on Good Street (dir. & co-written by Emi Buchwald) is currently in post-production. For his script for the feature film Anxiety of the Heart (dir. by Michał Edelman), he received the Script Wars Award in 2022. The project has also participated in the MIDPOINT Feature Launch 2024 (Marché du Film Producers Network Award), the New Horizons Studio+ 2023 (Special Mention Award), as well as the Les Arcs Industry Village 2024, and is currently in the financing stage.
Karol enjoys working with strong-minded directors and creative producers, seeing the fun of moviemaking in colliding diverse ideas to carry out a common vision. He secretly wants to be an actor one day.
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Anxiety of the Heart
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