The Piotr Woźniak-Starak Modern Film Production Group

Supervisor: Magdalena Kamińska

We invite you to join the Piotr Woźniak-Starak Modern Film Production Group, dedicated to young producers and film production students, organized as part of Film Spring Open 2025!

This year, the group’s mentor will be Magdalena Kamińska (Balapolis).

The patron of the Modern Film Production Group is Piotr Woźniak-Starak, a pioneer of the modern production model in Poland and Europe, in which the creative producer is involved at every stage of the filmmaking process. The group’s partner is the Starak Family Foundation, which is also the honorary patron of the Imagine competition.

Piotr Woźniak-Starak, film producer, at his company Watchout Productions in Warsaw (currently operating as Watchout Studio). Photo: Piotr Malecki / Napo Images for Forbes

Program of the Piotr Woźniak-Starak Modern Film Production Group

(to be carried out during the Film Spring Open workshops in Kraków):

Introductory Sessions

• The role of the producer
• Getting to know the group and participants’ individual needs

Thematic Blocks

• Film professions – who is who?
  Explanation of the structure of the production department and its roles: from producer, through production manager and line producer, to administrator and production assistant.
• Working with filmmakers and crews
  Different models of collaboration and relationship building.
• Financing and production package
  Where to find funding for films and series, how to prepare a production package.
• Script analysis
  How to read and analyze a script in terms of production feasibility (breakdown).
• Production phases
  What happens at each stage of creating a film or series – from script to post-production.
• Applications to the Polish Film Institute (PISF)
  How to prepare an application step by step.

The patron of the Piotr Woźniak-Starak Modern Film Production Group is the Starak Family Foundation.