Legendary Polish filmmaker Jerzy Skolimowski to set to obtain the Camerimage Worldwide Movie Pageant’s Marshal of the Kujawsko-Pomorskie Area Movie Award for 2022.

Skolimowski will obtain the award on Nov. 15, at a particular Camerimage screening of his newest movie EO, Poland’s official entry for the perfect worldwide characteristic class on the ninety fifth Academy Awards. A Q&A with the filmmaker will comply with the screening.

A graduate of the celebrated Nationwide Movie College in Łódź, Skolimowski’s prolonged profession has seen him work in quite a lot of inventive fields together with performing, poetry and portray. Nevertheless it was filmmaking the place Skolimowski discovered nice success with writing and directing.

The 84-year-old had his massive break as a screenwriter on movies comparable to Andrzej Wajda’s Harmless Sorcerers and Roman Polanski’s Knife within the Water earlier than turning into a director himself. Over a seven-decade profession, Skolimowski grew to become a well-regarded common on the European competition circuit.

In 1967, Skolimowski was awarded the Berlin Movie Pageant’s Golden Bear prize for his movie Le départ. On the Cannes Movie Pageant, he has received the particular jury prize twice (The Shout in 1978 and EO in 2022) in addition to a greatest screenplay prize (Moonlighting in 1982). The filmmaker has additionally been honored with lifetime achievement awards on the Venice Movie Pageant (2016) and Camerimage (2010).

The thirtieth Camerimage Worldwide Movie Pageant runs from Nov. 12 by means of 19 within the Polish metropolis of Torun.