FREE THE BUTTERFLY
POLISH TITLE: UWOLNIĆ MOTYLA
"Free the Butterfly" is a film about an unusual woman and the supernatural will to survive. Catherine Rosicka-Jaczyńska used to have money, beauty and fame, and then got sick. ALS kills in average after four years, and she lives more than a dozen. This disease takes the possibility of any movement, and Catherine is exceptionally active. She is not able speak a single word, but wrote a book that became a bestseller. Catherine achieves everything she wants, except one of the most important thing.
- GENRE:
- documentary
- COUNTRY:
- Poland
- RUNNING TIME:
- 45'
- YEAR:
- 2012
- DIRECTING:
- Joanna Frydrych
- SCRIPT:
- Joanna Frydrych
- DOP:
- Robert Gabrjanczyk
- EDITOR:
- Jan Mikołaj Mironowicz
- MUSIC:
- Joanna Badełek
- PRODUCTION:
- TVP S.A., Grupa Medialna Frydrych
Joanna Frydrych »
Director, screenwriter, independent film and television producer. Owner and president of „Grupa Medialna Frydrych” media production company. Poland. The main area of interest are social issues, groups that are excluded from society, threatened with poverty, discriminated against because of disability, age, gender, or lack of education. The main characters of the documentary films produced and directed by me are people struggling with their weaknesses and the lack of understanding by others, but not giving up and seeking ways of overcoming their obstacles.
- Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary FF, Canada, 2013 (screening)
- 25th Polish Film Festival in America, USA, 2013 (screening)
- 21st Camerimage International Film Festival, Poland, 2013 (screening)