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Edition 2013

Winners Jury Multimedia

William Goldstein

William Goldstein

Chairman of the Jury

William Goldstein is an American composer. He has been a recording artist for both Motown records and CBS Masterworks. He has over 40 albums currently available. He has scored over 50 Movie and Television projects, including Fame and The Miracle Worker. He has written on the arts for The New York Times and The Los Angeles Times. He has been a pioneer in the use of computers and electronic instruments in music, as well as video game scores. His most distinguishing characteristic as a composer/ pianist is his gift of “Instant Composition”, which he is exploring in many diverse ways and sharing with audiences through Master Classes, recitals and Albums. This rare talent started developing at age 4, when he was only 9 years old, he was brought to Professor Raymond Burrows at Columbia University. He is a founder of the Museum of Contemporary Arts in Los Angeles and a founding director of the California State Summer School for the Arts and serves on the music branch executive committee and foreign language committee of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Professor Jerzy Kucia

Professor Jerzy Kucia

Jury member

A graphic artist, painter, scriptwriter, director, teacher. In 1967, he graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków, he studied painting, graphic arts and animated film in classes of such professors as Wacław Taranczewski, Konrad Srzednicki, Włodzimierz Kunz. Right after completing his studies he worked as a graphic artist and painter, participating in around 150 exhibitions in Poland and abroad, and receiving a number of awards, including the 1st Award in graphic arts at the National Competition of Arts “Wiosna Opolska”. Since 1981, he has been involved in teaching work at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków, being in charge of the Animated Film Studio. In 1984, he was granted the title of professor of Fine Arts. He led as a guest classes and workshops on animated film with students in National Film and Television School in London, at the University of Munster, at the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana, Vilnius, Toulouse and Vienna.
Zygmunt Konieczny

Zygmunt Konieczny

Member of the Jury

A theatre and film music composer, author of literary song. He was born on 3rd of January 1937 in Kraków and has been bound with this city to this day. He studied in the Academy of Music in Kraków at the Composition Faculty in the years 1956 - 62. In 1959 he made his debut in the famous literary cabaret “Piwnica pod Baranami” and for several years was its only professional composer. He created an original song style in which the music interprets the poetical text, brings out the meaning, creates emotions. He is called “a cheerful composer of sad songs”. He has created music to texts of distinguished Polish and foreign poets, interpreted by numerous singers, with the most famous one being Ewa Demarczyk.
Balbina Bruszewska

Balbina Bruszewska

Member of the Jury

A director, scriptwriter, multimedia artist, currently based and working in Los Angeles. A graduate of the Leon Schiller National Higher School of Film, Television and Theatre in Łódź, for 5 years connected with the Oscar winning studio Se-Ma-For in Łódź, author of animated films and video clips that won many awards at festivals in Poland and abroad. The winner of such awards as Złota Kreska (Kraków), 2 YACH  statuettes (Gdańsk), Grand Prix Łodzią po Wiśle, Żubroffka, Mały FeFe, and the award by the Polish Filmmakers Association for the best Polish film Reanimacja 2010. The chairman of the Lucid Life Foundation for promotion of Polish young culture and art in the USA, a guest lecturer at CalArts CA and Collegium Civitas.
Krzysztof Garbaczewski

Krzysztof Garbaczewski

Member of the Jury

A theatre director, stage designer. A graduate of the Ludwik Solski Academy for the Dramatic Arts in Kraków. He completed studies at the Faculty of Drama Direction  where he studied under the eye of Krystian Lupa among others. He creates nonlinear constructions, he often shows the presented world by means of disillusional techniques. The syncretic style and the use of video projection in plays aim to describe modern awareness and sensitivity shaped by the cinema, television and the Internet. Awarded in 2009 – an award for the play "Opętani" by Witold Gombrowicz at Teatr Dramatyczny im. Jerzego Szaniawskiego in Wałbrzych, and in 2010 – an award in the category THEATRE in the competition Talenty Trójki organized by Programme 3 of the Polish Radio in Warsaw.