Poznań, August 2 nd 2013
Press Release
TRANSATLANTYK Festival Poznań 2013 has set sail on its next journey!
Poznan, August 2-9, 2013
On Friday, August 2nd, 2013, a festive opening gala will begin the third edition of the
TRANSATLANTYK Festival Poznań. Once again, this international celebration of film and music,
founded and directed by Jan AP Kaczmarek, will attract crowds form Poland and abroad to Poznan.
For eight days of the festival, you will have a chance to see over 150 films, take part in several dozen
workshops, Master Classes, special screenings, discussion panels and unique music concerts.
Extraordinary attractions are awaiting participants of this year's Transatlantyk, including film
screenings and dinners at the Culinary Cinema, Mobile Cinema Skoda or extremely popular
screenings of the section, Cinema in Bed. There will also be composition contests attracting young
composers from all around the world to the capital of Wielkopolska. This year, YOKO ONO is a special
guest of the festival and will be presented with the TRANSATLANTYK Glocal Hero Award.
As in previous years, TRANSATLANTYK Festival Poznań will begin with a meeting on the Adam
Mickiewicz Square. There, on August 2nd, at 6:30 PM, Mademoiselle Carmel will lead The Big
Drumming session against GMO's and the extinction of bees. Everyone is welcome to participate, all
it takes is coming to the Adam Mickiewicz Square, picking up a special rattle, and then playing
together with the music guests of the drumming session, Drum Duo and Fantasy Brass Octet.
Festival Opening Gala will begin on Friday, August 2nd, at 7:30 PM in the Concert Hall of the Adam
Mickiewicz University. Gloria Campaner, one of the world's top pianists of the young generation, the
winner of the IJ Paderewski International Piano Competition will be the music star of the gala and will
perform the Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 18 by Sergei Rachmaninoff, with the
accompaniment of Gorzow Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of Monica Wolińska. On
stage, beside Gloria Campaner, we will see one of the most outstanding Polish pianist, Leszek
Możdżer, actress and singer, Julia Pietrucha and Nick Cooper, cellist.
Film part of the Festival includes over 150 films that will be presented in 21 sections. The most
famous titles include awarded the Golden Bear in Berlin "The Child's Pose," by Calin Peter Netzer,
"Pieta," by Kim Ki-Duk, winner of the Golden Lion at the last edition of the Venice Film Festival and
the film “Heli,” by Amat Escalante awarded at Cannes for Best Director. At the festival, in addition to
the section Panorama, the review of the most import_ant world premieres of the last months, you
will be able to enjoy a retrospective of Stanley Kubrick, reviews of contemporary German and
Scandinavian cinema or selection of the best productions of the Sundance Film Festival. Film
screenings will be held in Multikino 51, Muza Theatre and the New Pałacowe Theatre in CK Zamek.
Also, the TRANSATLANTYK Festival invites everyone to the screenings of the Culinary Cinema, an
incredible feast, combining the 10th Muse and culinary arts. Each of the film screenings, which will
be held August 3-7 in Multikino 51, will end with a dinner at the TRANSATLANTYK Restaurant,
specially arranged for this occasion in the park next to Multikino 51. All dinners will relate to the
themes of the presented films. Following chefs will be in charge of the menus, Tomasz Trąbski
(Concordia Taste), Witek Iwański (Hotel Narvil Conference & Spa), Jakub Adamczyk (Winosfera),
Dawid Łagowski (Mierzęcin Palace), and the combined forces of the eight chefs associated with the
portal Wszystko Dla Kucharzy (Michał Kuter, Roman Kosmalski, Miłosz Kowalski, Stanisław Bobowski,
Rafał Godziemski, Grzegorz Olejarka, Artur Skotarczyk, Andrzej Truchlewski). Once again, Thomas
Struck of the International Film Festival in Berlin is the curator of the Culinary Cinema.
This year, integral part of the TRANSATLANTYK’s film program, the Cinema in Bed which is organized
in partnership with VOX, will take place on the Freedom Square (Plac Wolności). The space will have
60 projectors and double beds prepared for the occasion. Screenings will be held daily, August 3-7.
Free screenings will take place at 8:30 PM and at midnight, paid screenings (with complimentary
catering) at 10:15 PM. This is not the only open-air section of the festival. As part of the Mobile
Cinema Skoda, August 3-7, road movies will be presented in five districts of Poznan (Jeżyce, Wilda,
Nowe Miasto, Grunwald, City Center). Admission to all screenings of the Mobile Cinema Skoda is
free.
Traditionally, TRANSATLANTYK invites young composers from all around the world to participate in
two film music competitions, TRANSATLANTYK Instant Composition Contest and TRANSATLANTYK
Film Music Competition which will both be held on August 6th and 7th at the Polski Theatre in
Poznan. To participate in the competition struggle, you have to be younger than 35 by August 10th,
2013. Prizes for the winners exceed fifty thousand USD and are sponsored by the Foundation
Transatlantyk and Raiffeisen POLBANK. This year, there will be an additional, special prize for one of
the 10 finalists of the TRANSATLANTYK Film Music Competition, a contract with Sony ATV
publishing. Jan AP Kaczmarek is the artistic director of both composition competitions.
As is previous years, the TRANSATLANTYK offers the opportunity to participate in free lectures and
seminars, MASTER CLASSES, on the widely understood art of filmmaking. This year, the faculty will
include Marco Beltrami, Petr Zelenka, David MacMillan, Dave Porter, Xawery Żulawski, Marian
Dziędziel, Daniel Bloom and Jacek Borcuch. The meetings will be held at the CK ZAMEK and the
Rozbitek Institute.
YOKO ONO, artist and peace activist, will be a special guest of this year's festival. On August 7th, on
the stage of the AMU Concert Hall, she will perform a concert with THURSTON MOORE, leader of a
cult but no longer existing band, Sonic Youth. A day later, during the Closing Gala of the Festival,
Yoko Ono will receive the TRANSATLANTYK Glocal Hero Award, the Festival presents this award every
year for local activities that affect global change.
Another import_ant event will be the anniversary concert celebrating the 35 years of existence of the
most famous American record label Varèse Sarabande, specializing in film music. The producer,
Robert Townson will be the host of the evening and flutist, Sara Andon, will be a special guest. The
concert will take place on August 4th at the Concert Hall of AMU.
Eminent economist, Professor Jerzy Osiatyński, Wiktor Osiatyński, writer, lecturer and social activist
and one of the most popular political commentators in the country, Jacek Żakowski will meet on
August 3rd, at the CK Zamek (New Pałacowe Theatre) for a discussion panel "2013. Dirty thirteen.
What is going on in here?" to talk about, among other things, what may happen as a result of the
crisis that we are experiencing. The debate will start at 5:00 PM and admission is free.
Also, among the guests of the TRANSATLANTYK, there will be film directors, Audrey Ewell, Aaron
Aites, Jeremy Seifert, Martha Cunningham and Chad Hartigan, musical consultant Maggie Rodford,
screenwriter Shem Bitterman, musician Tuur Florizoone, producers Larry Sanitsky and Zachary Matz,
director Magdalena Łazarkiewicz, actress Weronika Rosati, actor Michal Żurawski and journalists
Tomasz Raczek, Janusz Wróblewski, Jaroslaw Kuźniar, Wojciech Orliński and Edwin Bendyk. During
the event, workshops of the School of Social Sciences will take place on the grounds of the Cinema in
Bed, and on August 8th, in the tent of the Transatlantyk Restaurant, Pyszoty, cooking workshops for
children will take place.
In the Festival Club, which this year will be based in Przylądek Arkadia +1 (entrance from Ratajczaka
44 Street) every day, from 10:00 PM until 4:00 AM the guests will enjoy silent disco. Once again, Dj's
of Poznan will take care of the music. On August 8th, there will be a special attraction waiting for the
participants of the Festival, a concert of Christina Wood and Cicely Goulder from Kaleida duo. Festival
Club has been equipped with innovative furniture by the company, NOTI.
Following the main idea of the TRANSATLANTYK, admission to part of the festival events is free. The
audience will be able to participate for free in selected film screenings in Multikino 51 and Muza
Theatre, MASTER CLASSES, events in the Festival Club and the majority of the screenings at the
Cinema in Bed. Also, TRANSATLANTYK Instant Composition Contest and TRANSATLANTYK Film Music
Competition, which will be held on August 6th and 7th in Polski Theatre in Poznań, will be open to
the public.
Free screenings in Multikino 51 and Muza Theatre will be held in the section TRANSATLANTYK Docs
and Eco, Season, Bike Movies and TRANSATLANTYK for Children. In order to participate in a film
screening you must pick up a free pass in the box office of Multikino 51 or Muza Theatre (selected
films of the section Docs) from 3:00 PM on the day prior to the screening, throughout the day of the
screening until the start of the film.
Until August 9th, at the box office of Multikino 51, tickets may be purchased for screenings in the
section Panorama, Sundance at TRANSATLANTYK, Cinematic Journey of The Master: Stanley Kubrick,
Road Cinema: Škoda. You know what's good! Confrontations, TRANSATLANTYK Art, New German
Cinema, New Scandinavian Cinema, Oscars 2013, Beyond the Genre and Special Screenings. At the
box office of Muza Theatre, you may purchase tickets for selected screenings of the section
Panorama, Confrontations, TRANSATLANTYK Art, Sacrum in Cinema, New German Cinema and New
Scandinavian Cinema. Tickets for the screenings of the section, B-Movies are available in the box
office of The Pałacowe Theatre. A single ticket for a screening of any film within a paid section costs
10 PLN.
Tickets to the concert of Yoko Ono and Thurston Moore (August 7th, AMU Concert Hall) are still
available at the price of 59-150 PLN at www.ebilet.pl while tickets to the concert celebrating the 35th
anniversary of Varèse Sarabande (August 4th, AMU Concert Hall) may be purchased at the price of 50
PLN. Tickets for the Closing Gala of the Festival (August 8th, AMU Concert Hall), during which pianist,
Leszek Możdżer and winners of composition competitions will perform, are available at the price of
100 PLN. Jan AP Kaczmarek will host the opening and closing ceremonies of the TRANSATLANTYK
Poznan Festival 2013. Both events will be broadcasted by television channels TVP Kultura and TVP 2.
Special information kiosks will be open until August 9th, 2013, in Multikino 51 where festival's staff
will be ready to help you with selecting the films and other events of the TRANSATLANTYK.
More information on the TRANSATLANTYK Festival Poznań 2013 may be found on our website
www.transatlantyk.org and on the Festival Facebook page www.facebook.com / Transatlantyk.
Ticket information is available at www.ebilet.pl.
Festival Venues: Multikino 51, Muza Theatre, CK Zamek, Rozbitek Institute, AMU Concert Hall, Polski
Theatre, Freedom Square, Przylądek Arkadia +1.
Festival Organizer: Foundation TRANSATLANTYK
Co-organizers: Multikino, Rozbitek Institute, Estrada of Poznan, CK Castle
Main Patronage: City of Poznan
Project co-financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, the Government of the
Wielkopolska Region, National Centre for Culture
Strategic partner: Adam Mickiewicz Institute, the portal Culture.pl
Sponsors: ŠKODA. You know what's good! VOX, Raiffeisen POLBANK
Partners: Kulinarisches Cinema, Olandia, Winosfera, CK Castle, Tura, Concordia Design, 3oceans,
eBilet.pl, Legalna Kultura, the National Audiovisual Institute, Empik NOTI, LaboPrint, Polskie
Karty Design 4 Rent, Fun Club, Green Parking
Media patronage: Gazeta Wyborcza, Gazeta.pl, Trójka Radio Channel, TVP 2, TVP Kultura, Newsweek,
VIVA! MaleMen, AMS, Filmweb.pl, Radio Merkury, KINO, HIRO FREE, Trendy Art of Living, IKS,
Kulturapoznan.pl
Sponsor of the Culinary Cinema "ŠKODA. You know what‘s good! "
Media Patronage of the Culinary Cinema: Kitchen, Design Alive, Kukbuk, Czas Wina, White Plate,
Food & Friends, Food Service, Wszystko Dla Kucharzy
Patronage of Master Classes: FilmPRO
Honorary Patronage of the Varese Sarabande Concert: Soundtracks.pl, MuzykaFilmowa.pl and
FilmMusic.pl
Press Contact:
Press Office of the TRANSATLANTYK Festival Poznań 2013
Jacek Sobczyński, phone # +48 668 569 201
Aleksandra Gutkowska, phone # +48 602 642 579
Przemyslaw Kwiatkowski, phone # +48 690 137 454
E-mail: press@transatlantyk.org and jacek@transatlantyk.org.