Dariusz Jabłoński is a Polish

Poland

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 film director

Film director

A film director is a person who directs the actors and film crew in filmmaking. They control a film's artistic and dramatic nathan roach, while guiding the technical crew and actors.-Responsibilities:...

 and producer

Film producer

A film producer oversees and delivers a film project to all relevant parties while preserving the integrity, voice and vision of the film. They will also often take on some financial risk by using their own money, especially during the pre-production period, before a film is fully financed.The...

, president of his own production company, Apple Film Productions, and one of the leading independent producers in Poland.

Biography

Jabłoński is a graduate of the Film Directing Academy in Łódź, Poland. He has worked on the biggest films in Polish cinematography –- as a Second Director on "Decalogue" by Krzysztof Kieslowski and as First Assistant Director on the "White Visiting Card" and "Magnate" by Filip Bajon. He produced and directed "The Visit of an Elderly Lady" (1986) -- the first Polish independent film—and Photographer

Fotoamator

Fotoamator is a 1998 documentary film directed by Dariusz Jablonski, examining the life of the Jewish population and their Nazi overseers in the Łódź Ghetto.-Subject matter:...

(1998), which received a number of international film awards: Grand Prix FIPA D'OR and Prix Planete in Biarritz (1999); Grand Prix VPRO Joris Ivens Award at IDFA in Amsterdam (1998); Prix Europa for Best Non-fiction TV Program (1998); Best Documentary in Banff (1999); Best Documentary at Double Take, Durham; Grimme Prize in Germany (2000); Bavarian TV Prize (1999). His work has also been screened at the TOP TEN Mediaforum Conference in Cologne

Cologne

Cologne is Germany's fourth-largest city , and is the largest city both in the Germany Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia and within the Rhine-Ruhr Metropolitan Area, one of the major European metropolitan areas with more than ten million inhabitants.Cologne is located on both sides of the...

. In addition, he has won awards at many international and Polish film festivals.

In 1990 he founded Apple Film Productions, which has produced more than 21 documentaries, 15 feature films and numerous tele-plays. Most of these were co-produced by Polish Television, Canal+, WDR, ARTE as well as other international producers. Additionally, many of these productions have received myriad international film awards.

Jabłoński is a founder of the Polish Film Awards and the Polish Film Academy as well as of the Independent Film Foundation, created to promote Art House films and their writers. The Independent Film Foundation is also running "ScripTeast", an innovative training program designed specifically for experienced scriptwriters from Eastern and Central Europe. He has finished many special courses (ex. European Film College) and received many international scholarships for European film professionals. He is also a member of the European Film Academy.

Writer

• 2008 - War Games
• 1998 - Photographer
• 1992 - Mondo Migliore
• 1989 - Elegy for a Lady

Director

• 2008 - War Games
• 2007 - Strawberry Wine
• 1998 - Photographer
• 1994 - Meeting
• 1992 - Artur Brauner
• 1992 - Mondo migliore
• 1990 - Better World
• 1990 - Last Shabbes Goy
• 1989 - Elegy for a lady
• 1988 - A Short Film About Love
• 1985 - Jóźko
• 1985 - Help

Producer

• 2009 - Janosik. True story
• 2007 - Strawberry Wine
• 2005-2007 - Codzienna 2 m. 3 (TV series)
• 2005 - Solidarity, Solidarity...
• 2004 - My Father, My Wife and My Lover
• 2003-2008 - The Cop (TV series)
• 2003 - Saved by Miracle
• 2002 - My Fried Chicken
• 2001 - The Spring To Come
• 2001 - Bellissima
• 2001 - Dated 20th Century
• 2000 - Sucker Season
• 2000 - Reed Dance
• 1999 - I'm Looking at You, Mary
• 1999 - The Gateway of Europe
• 1998 - Photographer
  Fotoamator
  Fotoamator is a 1998 documentary film directed by Dariusz Jablonski, examining the life of the Jewish population and their Nazi overseers in the Łódź Ghetto.-Subject matter:...
  
  
• 1998 - Sekal Has to Die
• 1998 - The Auricle
• 1996 - The Dogs of Totalitarian Regime
• 1996 - Department IV
• 1996 - Street Games
• 1994 - The Gardens of Tadeusz Reichstein
• 1994 - Return
• 1994 - Kieslowski meets Wenders
• 1993 - Hrabal
• 1992 - Mondo migliore
• 1992 - Artur Brauner
• 1991 - Repetition of Conrad
• 1986 - The Visit of the Old Lady

External links

• Dariusz Jabłoński (in Polish)
• Dariusz Jabłoński filmography (in Polish)