HITTING THE RIGHT KEYS
POLISH TITLE: TRZEBA UDERZAĆ WE WŁAŚCIWE KLAWISZE
REPRESENTED BY KFF
The documentary offers an opportunity to find out more about the jazzman, pianist and composer of international renown, Adam Makowicz. The protagonist, who went to New York in the late 1970s and has been travelling between Poland and the USA until today, describes the circumstances of finding himself in the jazz Mecca. The story is supplemented by interviews with such artists as Tomasz Stańko or Ryszard Horowitz who met Makowicz at different stages of his long and successful career.
FILM REPRESENTED BY KRAKOW FILM FOUNDATION
FILM REPRESENTED BY KRAKOW FILM FOUNDATION
- GENRE:
- documentary
- COUNTRY:
- Poland
- RUNNING TIME:
- 57'
- YEAR:
- 2011
- DIRECTING:
- Ignacy Szczepański
- SCRIPT:
- Ignacy Szczepański
- DOP:
- Paweł Sobczyk, Grzegorz Liwiński
- EDITOR:
- Grzegorz Liwiński, Ignacy Szczepański
- MUSIC:
- Adam Makowicz
- PRODUCTION:
- Studio Filmowe Wir
Ignacy Szczepański »
Ignacy Szczepański was born in 1951. He graduated from Philosophy and Philology, and then studied directing at the Polish National School in Łódź. He has made over fourty documentary films, many of them award-winning, including “Life goes on”, “Half a lifetime later”, “According to Mrożek” ,“So my thought unrolls” and many others. He is also the author of several books, national publications. He is also the member of the board of the documentary section at Polish Filmmakers Association.