Festival director Marek Żydowicz discusses the importance of authorship rights and construction of a new $1.29 million home for the annual event.
Żydowicz says the center will include a main screening room with seating for roughly 1,500, as well as three 200-300 seat screening rooms. “There will be areas for exhibitions, there will be areas for education,” he adds, nothing that the project also would include a 500-square meter soundstage for production and postproduction facilities.
Three decades ago when he was hatching the idea for the festival, Żydowicz reached out to influential cinematographers Vittorio Storaro and the late Sven Nykvist for support. “In that time people were connecting each other by faxes, and so I sent faxes to both of them,” he remembers. “And funny enough, both replies came in by fax one after another in the same minute.”
At the debut Camerimage, Nykvist received the Lifetime Achievement Award, and Storaro served as jury chair, awarding the first Golden Frog to Stuart Dryburgh for his lensing of Jane Campion’sŻydowicz says that in the fax messages, he promised to “create a place that concerns the images and the creators of images—the cinematographers—who are [not always] being treated as artists.
He says that in Poland, authorship rights for cinematographers’ work is today treated more or less the same as they would for a director or composer, meaning, “you can’t change the image without their approval” and the cinematographer also is eligible to collect residuals. But he adds that this isn’t the case in most countries: “We believe they should be treated as artists. Especially now, when the image could be changed in every way through postproduction in the digital world.
Over the years, the festival has expanded in scope. Describing filmmaking as “teamwork,” Żydowicz says, “we’ve always been trying to invite [other disciplines including] directors, production designers, set designers, editors.” Honorees this week include cinematographer Stephen H. Burum, Lifetime Achievement; Baz Luhrmann, Special Award for Outstanding Director; Alex Gibney, Outstanding Achievement in Documentary Filmmaking; and Sarah Greenwood, Special Award for a Production Designer.
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