THE GENTLE GIANT
POLISH TITLE: OLBRZYM
REPRESENTED BY KFF
The main protagonist of The Gentle Giant is going to take part in a poetry contest. To gather up the courage to come out, he collects the memories from the entire life and fights his own demons. It's a film about one tiny step for mankind, one giant leap for a man.
- GENRE:
- documentary / animation
- COUNTRY:
- POLAND
- RUNNING TIME:
- 11'
- YEAR:
- 2016
- DIRECTING:
- Marcin Podolec
- SCRIPT:
- Marcin Podolec
- DOP:
- Marcin Gierbisz
- EDITOR:
- Marcin Podolec
- MUSIC:
- Rafał Samborski, Piotr Markowicz
- ANIMATION:
- Marcin Podolec, Wiktoria Nowak
- PRODUCTION:
- PWSFTviT (Państwowa Wyższa Szkoła Filmowa, Telewizyjna i Teatralna), FUMI Studio
Marcin Podolec »
Marcin Podolec - born in 1991; comic books artist and animator; graduate and lecturer at Film School in Łódź, Poland; founder of Yellow Tapir Films 2D animation studio. He presented his films at festivals in Clermont-Ferrand, Leipzig, Athens, Sao Paulo and Poitiers. He debuted in comics in 2010 and since then he has published over a dozen albums in Poland and abroad.
AT FESTIVALS:
- Kino Fest International Digital Film Festival 2016, Romania, 2016 (screening)
- DOK Leipzig, Germany, 2016 (screening)
- 32nd interfilm, International Short Film Festival Berlin, Germany, 2016 (screening)
- 21st Regard - Saguenay International Short Film Festival, Canada, 2017 (screening)
- 63rd International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film – DOK Leipzig, Germany, 2020 (screening)
- 9th CyBorg Film Festival, Italy, 2016 (competition)
- Animatou - International Animation Film Festival, Switzerland, 2016 (competition)
- Tofuzi 2016, Georgia, 2016 (competition)
- 5th Primanima World Festival For First Animation, HUNGARY, 2016 (competition)
- 9th KLIK! Amsterdam Animation Festival, Holand, 2016 (competition)
- 14th Mumia - Underground World Animation Festival, Brazil, 2016 (competition)
- DocsBarcelona, Spain, 2017 (competition)
- CinEast - Central and Eastern European FF, Luxembourg, 2017 (competition)
- 11th Big Cartoon Festival, Russia, 2017 (competition)
- Alexandre Trauner Art. / Film Festival 2018, Hungary, 2018 (competition)