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THE HUNGER
Poland, 16min, 2005

Director: Magdalena Pieta

Synopsis: Martha lives in a small village somewhere in Poland. Martha’s world is limited to the area of a closed mine near the villege, the church where her father helps the priest, some small talks with neightbours and the bar she works in. Martha is pregnant – with the Holy Spirit

Magdalena Pieta

Education:
1999-2002 Cultural Anthropology and History of Art in the Department for Individual Humanistic Studies at the Warsaw University, Poland
2001-2002 European School of Photography, Warsaw, Poland
2002- Directing Departement, National Polish Film School, Lodz, Poland

Scholarships and Workshops:
1998 Artistic scholarship in Avignon, during the Theatre Festival
1999 Scholarship of the Minister of Education
1998 Grand Prix on the high school theatre festival in Gliwice
1999 Grand Prix on the High school theatre festival in Poznan
2004 EsoDoc- European Social Documenatry Workshop – Zelig School for Documentary/Italy and Andrzej Wajda Masterschool in Directing/Poland

Filmography:
2003 “Bornholm” –12min fiction DV
2004 “Who art thou?” – 14min doc DV
(2004 “Tommorow of film” festival- Warsaw, Poland - 2005 Europe’s divergeances/convergeances international documentary Festival- Lublin, Poland International Film Festival of the School Academy in Vienna – Vienna, Austria Documentary Meetings – Balystok, Poland International Short Film Festival- Hamburg, Germany EastSilverDocs)
2005 “Hunger” – 16min fiction 35mm

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