,, Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind."
Maria Stelmach is truly ambitious and passionate young woman with great love to cinema and literature. She connect those two passions into writing. She admires writers as Virginia Woolf and Margaret Atwood.
In the house on the edge with a woods she lives with peace and wind. She was born in Poland where she couldn't find right opportunities to write, so now she is publishing her work all over the world.
Official Selection
Way to the Darkness
kalakari film fest
2024
Nominee Best Short Screenplay
Way to the Darkness
Planet Cinema
2023
Nominee
Way to the Darkness
Cinesis Independent FilmFest
2023
Semi-Finalist
Way to the Darkness
New York International Women Festival
New York, United States
2023
Nominee
Way to the Darkness
SENSEI FilmFest
Tokyo, Japan
2023
Nominee
Way to the Darkness
CLIMAX Critics Awards
2023
Nominee
Way to the Darkness
Lonely Wolf Film Festival
London, UK
2023
Best Screenplay: Runner-Up
Way to the Darkness
Reel Girls Film Festival
Toronto, Canada
2022
Official Selection
Way to the Darkness
Festival Angaelica
Gender
Female
“No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself."
“I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.”
“If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.”
-Virginia Woolf-
“We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print. It gave us more freedom.
We lived in the gaps between the stories.”
― Margaret Atwood
“To be an artist means never to avert one's eyes.”
- Akira Kurosawa
“Filmmaking is a chance to live many lifetimes.”
- Robert Altman.
,, Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind."
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