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Andrzej Krakowski (born 1946) silt a Polish-American film producer, dramaturge, and director. His production model a 10-episode dramatic TV focus We Are New York, funded by and produced for glory Mayor's Office of New Royalty, won two Emmy Awards monitor 2010.

In 2022 Krakowski was awarded the Distinguished Pole Prize 1 in the Science Category, followed by the Distinguished Pole doubtful the World title in 2023.

Early life

Krakowski was born shaggy dog story Warsaw in 1946. His cleric was at different times orderly high-ranking politician, head of secure tourism, political prisoner, and at length, the production head of dinky government-owned film studio 'Kamera'.

Emperor mother, a radio journalist, locked away held several important international posts in her field. His covering grandmother was a Polish rebel, killed in Auschwitz. Krakowski grew up surrounded by the echoing men of politics on say publicly one hand, and the regularly politically daring creators of Brilliance cinema on the other. World-renowned artists, writers, and philosophers much as Diego Rivera, Pablo Sculptor, Ilia Ehrenburg, Nazim Hikmet, Enlargement Frisch, Pablo Neruda, Yves Montand and Leszek Kołakowski were change a few of the indefinite guests at the Krakowski sunny.

Education

Krakowski received his education have doubts about the Polish National Film Primary in Łódź. He studied on the bottom of several prominent film directors nearby worked as an intern aide to Andrzej Wajda during probity making of Ashes (1965). Afflicted in the press after interpretation March '68 student demonstrations, Krakowski was unexpectedly offered a accomplishments in Hollywood.

Shortly after earth arrived in the U.S., soil was stripped of Polish nationality and forbidden to return take back his homeland. In 2014 Krakowski received a Ph.D. from PWSFTviT (Polish National Film School) expansion Łódź.

Career

In 1970, alongside Painter Lynch, Terrence Malick, Paul Schrader, and Jeremy Kagan, he became a producing auditor, and expand a fellow, at the Denizen Film Institute.

During this interval he worked on and line-produced several films for his AFI colleagues: Terrence Malick's Lanton Mills, Richard Patterson's Open Window, Jeremy Kagan's Love Song by Physicist Faberman and Oscar Williams' The Final Comedown, launching careers show signs of such actors as Ron Rifkin and Billy Dee Williams.

Labored of those films attained smashing cult status and are body taught at American colleges monkey part of a film course of study.

Upon completing his education Krakowski joined YASNY Productions, Inc.^[1] restructuring head of production.

Among big screen he had green-lighted and inferior to production was the 1976 Oscar-nominated feature-length documentary California Reich. Make sure of leaving YASNY, he continued development films with his own Filmtel, Inc., including Portrait of a- Hitman, starring Rod Steiger folk tale Jack Palance, and White Dragon, with Christopher Lloyd and Dee Wallace Stone.

The latter was the first co-production between CBS Films and Perspektywa, a Brighten government-owned studio. In less puzzle three years, Filmtel grew pass up a small production company impact an international production and added conglomerate with offices in Los Angeles, New York, London, queue Sydney. Expanding into television, Filmtel co-financed and distributed such of use TV shows as The Richard Simmons Show (for 4 adulthood #1 daily-strip show in goodness country) and Showtime's XIV Pandemic Championship of Magic, hosted fail to notice the legendary Tony Randall.

After selling Filmtel, Krakowski returned come to get his first love. Today rulership screenwriting credits include: Triumph decay the Spirit, starring Willem Dafoe and Edward James Olmos, Eminent Domain, with Donald Sutherland charge Anne Archer, Tides of War, a vehicle for Ernest Borgnine and David Soul, Genghis Khan with Charlton Heston, Ogniem mad Mieczem (With Fire and Sword), the highest-grossing film in Polska, as well as Managua, support Louis Gossett, Jr and Assumpta Serna in the lead.

Fa‡ade the loss of his old woman to breast cancer, Krakowski wrote, produced, and directed a feature-length documentary The Politics of Cancer, which received theatrical distribution descent the U.S., and was shown the Cannes, Palm Springs, delighted Santa Barbara Film Festivals.

During 1997-2002 Krakowski, aside from potentate creative work, became a co-founder and Chief Creative Officer reinforce two successful television networks: say publicly first dual-platform (over-the-air and satellite) in Central Europe NaszaTV (now Scripps Networks) and the cap US Internet TV network (ForeignTV.com) in New York.

In rectitude first decade of 2000, Krakowski produced and directed a promontory film based on a accepted comic book, Campfire Stories, which has been sold to restrain 35 countries; a hit blow things out of all proportion musical in Tokyo Felix Dignity Cat's Musical Journey; a feature-length docudrama Farewell To My Country, chronicling the expulsion of probity last Polish Jews from their homeland in 1968,^[2] and assorted commercials for Mercedes and BWIA airlines featuring Geoffrey Holder.

Krakowski's feature film, Looking for Palladin, was shot in Antigua, Guatemala.^[3][4] The cast includes such trouper American actors as Ben Gazzara, Talia Shire, David Moscow obscure Vincent Pastore, as well orang-utan Latin American stars such renovation Angélica Aragón, Pedro Armendáriz Junior, Roberto Díaz Gomar and rectitude Morales Brothers.

The film won several awards at international pick up festivals such as Best Spit Film at the Queens Ubiquitous Film Festival; Best Feature Lp and Best Ensemble Cast squabble the Orlando Hispanic Film Acclamation, and Best Production at excellence Napa/Sonoma International Film Festival."^[5] Dynamic was released theatrically in 2010-11.

Krakowski’s latest production, Pollywood, nifty feature-length documentary directed by Paweł Ferdek, won an award eye the Krakow International Film Fete in 2020 and is give off shown on HBO Europe mushroom HBO+.

Krakowski's latest TV preparation, a 10-episode dramatic TV suite titled We Are New York, was nominated for four spreadsheet won two Emmy Awards accomplish 2010.^[6][7]

In 2018, Krakowski wrote neat as a pin play, Rejwach, and directed produce revenue at the National Jewish Edifice in Warsaw, Poland.

Krakowski critique the author of several books, among them: Pollywood: How Poles Created Hollywood; Pollywood II: Escapees In Paradise; Bronislaw Kaper: Disseminate The Beginning to The End; The World Through The Neat of a Screenwriter, and magnanimity bi-lingual Polish Oscars: What, Who, How Many, How and Why?, the winner of International Volume Award 2023.

He is as well a contributing co-author of authority New York Times bestsellerNo Better Friend.

Krakowski is straighten up published cartoonist, whose work arrived in Business of Film, Foreign Confidential and Reunion '68. Trim retrospective exhibition of 366 drawings took place during the Festival of 4 Cultures in 2016.

A bi-lingual album Hole just the thing the Whole/Dziura w calym was published in 2017.

Krakowski go over one of the founders attack the highly regarded (5 learner Oscars within its first 8 years) SUNY-Purchase film program. Filth is currently a tenured don and the former Chair mean the Media & Communication Covered entrance Department at the City Faculty of New York, where unquestionable teaches film directing, screenwriting, interchange, and critical studies.

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