Alternative narratives in animation - 2 days of screenwriting meetings
THE WORKSHOPS ARE CONDUCTED IN POLISH ONLY.
During the sessions, Ewa Borysewicz will invite participants to work with alternative narrative structures that go beyond the classic three-act model. Throughout the collaborative exercises, participants will analyze modernist, postmodernist, consecutive, and parallel narratives, exploring not only their structure but also the type of relationship each creates with the audience. Individual exercises will allow participants to test these strategies “from the inside” through their own narrative attempts, sketches, and experiments.
The activities will focus on maintaining the freshness of the authorial vision while ensuring self-awareness, narrative coherence, and audience engagement. Participants will leave the sessions not only with a new perspective on creating cinematic stories but, most importantly, with a set of concrete narrative tools that they can consciously apply in their own creative work.
Ewa Borysewicz
Director, screenwriter, visual artist, and lecturer at the Krzysztof Kieślowski Film School, University of Silesia in Katowice. She is a PhD candidate at the Łódź Film School, where she researches the relationship between film narrative and the language of animation. She conducts film workshops in Poland and abroad. She graduated in directing from the Krzysztof Kieślowski Film School, University of Silesia and in graphic arts from the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków (degree in animated film).
She is the author of award-winning short films, including her latest film Cud (2024), which received recognition such as the Debut Feature Award at the Krakow Film Festival, the Jan Machulski Main Award for Best Film, industry awards from Polish Filmmakers Association (SFP), and the Bronze Viper at Etiuda&Anima. Her film Do serca Twego was nominated for the Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale), won the Grand Prix at Animateka Festival in Ljubljana, the Jantar Award at Młodzi i Film Festival, and received honors at Krakow Film Festival, Fest Ancy, among others.
Ewa Borysewicz has participated in the JAPIC artistic residency program in Tokyo and at the Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart. She has produced a wide range of works, including artistic, social, and commercial projects. She lives and works in Warsaw.
