Maciej Grabysa – (PL)


I am independent director of documentaries in social themes which try to show situation in Poland after 1989 year; in cooperation with Polish public TV (TVP), for which I’ve made four docs:

2006 - “ARTS ARE BEAUTIFUL” a story about homeless people working as a models on Academy of Fine Arts;
2005 -  “LAND OF FORGIVENESS“ -Judaism, Orthodox Church, Catholicism in Tunisia
2004 - “RECEIPT FOR LIFE story about unemployed people who are testing drugs for pharmaceutical concerns;
2002 - “THE DAMNED” “a shocking record of one “normal” day at an institution where drunks are detained until they sober up”

Now I’m very interested to show and describe situation of the people who live in Karpathian Mountains in Poland, Ukraine, Slovakia and Romania.
It is very origin place where live a lot of interested the minorities with their origin practices (habits and faiths)
I know many themes from these lands (I am member of Karpathian Association, Polish_Romanian friendship association).
I cooperate with Institut of Ethnology at Jagiellonian University in Cracow.
Citizens of this region are in a very interesting period of their life: they are after “communist time” and before global transformation. These two realities are mixed, which is very fine subject for a doc movie.