About the Foundation
LUDZIE
The head of the Foundation, has been on the board of directors since 2006 and for many years has been associated with the organisation of the Krakow Film Festival, as the director of the programme office. Previously, she was employed at Apollo Film, where she was responsible for the organisation of events, promotion and marketing. A graduate of the Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology at the Jagiellonian University. She is the director of the KFF Sales & Promotion Agency, the producer of the projects: Polish Docs, Polish Shorts and Polish Animations, the editor of the English-language magazine „Focus on Poland,” addressed to the documentary and short film industry. She conducts classes at the Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski Krakow University in Krakow and at the Jagiellonian University.
She graduated from film studies and post-graduated from Public Relations at the Faculty of Management and Social Communication at the Jagiellonian University. She worked at Apollo Film as a PR manager and co-operated by the implementation of numerous film events. She has been associated with the Krakow Film Foundation since 2006, where she acts as the assistant director of the programme office. She runs the Distribution and Event Organisation Department at the Krakow Film Foundation.
She is a graduate of the Faculty of Polish Studies at the Jagiellonian University, specialising in Theatre Studies. She also studied film studies, specialising in media, at the Faculty of Cultural Studies at the Jagiellonian University. She acted as an expert of the Polish Film Institute twice. The Vice-President of the KFF Sales & Promotion Agency and the co-ordinator of the Polish Docs project, dedicated to promoting Polish documentary cinema abroad. She co-operates with various magazines and Internet portals, publishes texts on film, theatre and culture. The editor of the English-language magazine „Focus on Poland.” Katarzyna Wilk is also the head of the KFF Industry – the largest Polish industry event, dedicated to documentary, animated and short films.
She is a culture manager with extensive experience in the field of event organisation, marketing and promotion. As the production manager, she implemented festivals, concerts, performances in Poland and abroad and led teams promoting and organising events at cultural institutions.
Film expert by profession, a graduate of the Jagiellonian University. He also studied at the Institute of Art of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw. He acted as, among others, the deputy mayor of the city of Krakow, the director of Apollo Film and the Film Agency of the Polish Television. He is also a member of the Polish and European Film Academy. He has been managing the Krakow Film Festival for 20 years.
In 2012 she began working for the Krakow Film Foundation. She co-organizes industry events at the Krakow Film Festival and coordinates the festival film market (KFF Market). In KFF Sales & Promotion she takes care of the festival distribution of Polish short films – fiction and animation – and also prepares film programmes for international festivals and film events.
Master of Fine Arts. PhD candidate at the Institute of Audiovisual Arts at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland where she runs classes with students in the field of contemporary cinema and Polish cinema. For several years associated with the Krakow Film Foundation and Krakow Film Festival, where she coordinates non-competition sections and co-creates the “Kids & Youth. Kino dla Młodych” aimed at children and teenagers.
He has been associated with the Krakow Film Foundation since 2018. Coordinator of International Short Film Competition and print traffic at Krakow Film Festival. In KFF Sales & Promotion he takes care of the festival distribution of Polish short films – fiction and animation – and also prepares film programmes for international festivals and film events.