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Killing the Second Dog

Military experience and unfavourable economic conditions mean that the characters must show cunning and sometimes cruelty to survive another day. The ordinary human desire for love is subjected to a hard test. The tear between difficult emotional choices never brings fulfilment and always leaves a bitterness of failure. The past casts a shadow on the characters’ fates. Memories like lead bullets can hurt or even kill.The traumatic war experiences have left a deep mark on the characters’ psychology and do not allow them to forget the cruel past...The life in the Promised Land turns out not to be free of age-old human dilemmas

  • JERZY KOWYNIA
    Writer
    Kamchatka
  • Project Type:
    Screenplay
  • Number of Pages:
    101
  • Country of Origin:
    Poland
  • Language:
    English
  • First-time Screenwriter:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Montreal Independent Film Festival 2021
    Montreal
    May 4, 2021
    Official Selection
  • Big Apple Film Festival and Competition 2021
    New York
    Semi-Finalist
  • HBFF Hollywood BLVD Film Festival 2021
    Hollywood
    Finalist
  • LA Sun Film Fest 2021

    Official Selection
  • Chicago Indie Film Awards 2021
    Chicago
    Official Selection
  • Berlin Movie Awards 2021
    Berlin
    Official Selection
  • New York Independent Cinema Awards 2021
    New York
    Official Selection
  • Atlanta International Screenplay Awards 2021
    Atlanta
    Official Selection
  • Toronto Film Magazine Fest 2021
    Toronto
    Official Selection
  • Wiki: The World's Fastest Screenplay Contest! 2021

    Official Selection
Writer Biography - JERZY KOWYNIA

Jerzy Kowynia (born in 1959 in Cracow) – Polish film director, screenwriter, film producer.
He studied philosophy at the Jagiellonian University in Cracow and at the Université Paris Sorbonne in Paris. From 1985 to 1989 he worked together with the Polish independent film center Video Kontakt in Paris[1]. Director, screenwriter, producer of documentaries, film reportages and theatre plays among others Sam Shepard’s “Fool for Love”. His films have received awards at festivals in Cracow, Trentianskie Teplice, Łódź and Koszalin among others. Publisher of the Polish edition of the book „Global Trends 2025 – a transformed world” (2010)[2]. In 2013 he directed and produced his independent feature film „Kamchatka”[3]. He worked on most of his documentaries together with his friend Jerzy Ridan. He is a member of the Association of Polish filmmakers[4]. He lives in Cracow.

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