{"id":9402,"date":"2010-10-21T06:19:35","date_gmt":"2010-10-21T04:19:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/camernew.klienci.052b.com\/specjalna-nagroda-plus-camerimage-dla-rezysera-joela-schumachera\/"},"modified":"2010-10-21T06:19:35","modified_gmt":"2010-10-21T04:19:35","slug":"specjalna-nagroda-plus-camerimage-dla-rezysera-joela-schumachera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.camerimage.pl\/en\/specjalna-nagroda-plus-camerimage-dla-rezysera-joela-schumachera\/","title":{"rendered":"SPECIAL PLUS CAMERIMAGE AWARD TO DIRECTOR JOEL SCHUMACHER"},"content":{"rendered":"

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American director and screenwriter Joel Schumacher<\/b> will attend Plus Camerimage<\/b> as the festival’s special guest and will chair the Jury of the Student Etudes Competition. He is also the recipient of this year’s Special Plus Camerimage Award to the Director<\/b>. <\/p>\n

Joel Schumacher <\/p>\n

Joel Schumacher<\/b> is renowned for his versatility, style and ability to move seamlessly between film genres with equal popular success and critical acclaim. He began his film career as a costume designer for such legendary directors as Woody Allen<\/b> (Sleeper<\/i><\/span>, Interiors<\/i><\/span>) and Herbert Ross<\/b> (The Last of Sheila<\/i><\/span>), before making his own name as a screenwriter with Sparkle<\/i><\/span> and Car Wash<\/i><\/span>. After cutting his teeth directing two television movies, Joel made his feature film directorial debut on The Incredible Shrinking Woman<\/i><\/span> in 1981. His career soon took off with such iconic fare as St. Elmo’s Fire<\/i><\/span> and The Lost Boys<\/i><\/span>, followed by other successes – Cousins<\/i><\/span>, Flatliners<\/i><\/span>, Dying Young<\/i><\/span> and Falling Down<\/i><\/span> (his first collaboration with Polish cinematographer Andrzej Bartkowiak<\/b>). He would go on to direct film versions of two best selling novels by John Grisham<\/b> (The Client<\/i><\/span> and A Time to Kill<\/i><\/span>) as well as two installments of the blockbuster Batman film series, Batman Forever<\/i><\/span> (the #1 movie of 1995, with Jim Carrey<\/b> as \u2018The Riddler’) and Batman & Robin<\/i><\/span>. <\/p>\n

Most recently, Joel brought audiences the films 8MM<\/i><\/span>, Flawless<\/i><\/span> (which he also wrote), Tigerland<\/i><\/span>, Phone Booth<\/i><\/span>, Bad Company<\/i><\/span> and Veronica Guerin<\/i><\/span>. In 2004 he adapted Andrew Lloyd Webber<\/b>‘s hit musical, The Phantom of the Opera<\/i><\/span>, for the screen. The film was nominated for three Academy Awards and a Golden Globe for Best Musical or Comedy. He followed that up with his second collaboration with Jim Carrey<\/b>, the intriguing thriller The Number 23<\/i><\/span>. <\/p>\n

Joel’s latest film, Twelve<\/i><\/span>, based on the groundbreaking novel by Nick McDonell<\/b>, was honored as the closing night presentation of the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. He is currently in post-production on his twenty-fourth feature film, Trespass<\/i><\/span>, a reunion with DP Andrzej Bartkowiak<\/b>, as well as actors Nicolas Cage<\/b> and Nicole Kidman<\/b>. <\/p>\n

The organizers would like to use the opportunity to hold a special screening of Schumacher<\/b>‘s Falling Down<\/i><\/span>, cin. Andrzej Bartkowiak<\/b>. Both the director and the cinematographer will attend the screening and will introduce the film to the audience. <\/p>\n

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