Private Project

MY 89 GENERATION

MY 89 GENERATION is a crowd-sourcing documentary film, that consists of footage recorded by the characters of the movie themselves: young people born after 1989 (the year when "communism" in Poland ended and the democracy won). We asked them to send us their own films about their lives in different than their parents reality. Out of tens of hours of footage we have chosen our seven main characters, young people striving for their dreams while living through their first loves, betrayals and breakups. These are the stories of Wojtek, Ela, Mikolaj, Martyna, Adam, Lukasz and Malgosia. They are all passion-driven people, who want to make their dreams come true, they seek for love and ways to express their affections and emotions, although they do not always know how to do it properly.

  • Pawel Jozwiak-Rodan
    Director
    Eight9, Agnieszka is not here, Operation Clairvoyant, My Mum Dad God and Satan
  • Pawel Jozwiak-Rodan
    Writer
    Eight9, Agnieszka is not here, Operation Clairvoyant, My Mum Dad God and Satan
  • Łukasz Ludkowski
    Writer
    Eight9
  • Pawel Jozwiak-Rodan (Projetive Identivication)
    Producer
  • Witold Będkowski (TVP - Polish Television)
    Producer
  • Adam Rymon-Lipiński
    Key Cast
  • Elżbieta Demrych
    Key Cast
  • Jan Żychniewicz
    Key Cast
  • Konrad Śniady
    Key Cast
  • Martyna Kobiela
    Key Cast
  • Małgorzata Polakowska
    Key Cast
  • Mikołaj Szulczewski
    Key Cast
  • Paulina Raczkowska
    Key Cast
  • Piotr "TenTypMes" Szmidt
    Key Cast
  • Wojciech Jakubczyk
    Key Cast
  • Łukasz Czerniawski
    Key Cast
  • Łukasz Grubski
    Key Cast
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    MOJE 89 POKOLENIE
  • Project Type:
    Documentary, Television, Web / New Media
  • Runtime:
    1 hour 3 minutes 29 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    May 10, 2014
  • Country of Origin:
    Poland
  • Country of Filming:
    Poland, United Kingdom
  • Language:
    English, Polish
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Planette+ Doc Film Festival
    Warsaw
    May 10, 2014
    Polish Premiere
  • Krakow Film Festival
    Krakow
    May 31, 2014
  • Los Angeles Independent Film Awards
    Los Angeles, USA
    Official selection & Nomination
  • Columbia Gorge International Film Festival
    Washougal, Vancouver, WA, USA
    August 7, 2015
    Official Selection
    Award for the Best Documentary Feature
Director Biography - Pawel Jozwiak-Rodan

He is most known as the author of the script, photos, and director of the documentary "MY MUM DAD GOD AND SATAN” which won numerous international and home awards for as written in the justifications “for best director and master use of social and psychological contrasts and the way to enter the fate of his own family in the history of post-war Polish”. This film was Offical Selected at Camerimage 2008 in Lodz and has received Grand Prix at OFF/ON Festival in Warsaw, and the second Prize at The International Documentary Film Festival DOCUMENTA MADRID in Spain.
Paweł Jóźwiak-Rodan directed also the 30-minutes long film EIGHT9, which has been selected for the competition section East End Film Festival in London and won the Audience Award UNIFEST in Madrid and Best Fiction Film at OSTRAVA FILM FESTIVAL in Ostrava. His next documentary film AGNIESZKA IS NOT HERE won The best documentary Prize at ZOOM FILM FESTIVAL and Second Prize at OFF CINEMA FESTIVAL in Poznan.
He graduated directing at the Krzysztof Kieslowski's Department of Radio and Television University of Silesia , and film studies at the University of Łódź. Now he is PhD student at Polish National Filmschool in Lodz (PWSTFITV). His interests include film, theater, literature, music and religion, new technology and among his additional skills mentioned editing, computer graphics and animation.
Last year he completed first polish crowdcourced doucmentary MY 89 GENERATION he had worked more than two years.
He is working now with Opus Film (main producer of Oscar winning "Ida") on the documentary film called THE PILGRIM about ex-prisoner walking by foot from Europe to Moscow.

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