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Saturday June 3, 2006, 1:00 PM, Program # 2 Brooklyn Museum Melodrama (Melodramat, Poland, 2005, 19 min., 35 mm), a short by Filip Marczewski, captured that one moment in the life of a teenager exploring sexuality while still stuck in the no-man’s land between being a child and an adult. The director presents that world with realism and intensity. The film is 2005 St. Louis International Film Festival award winner in the category of international shorts. It was also presented at the international film festivals in Hamptons, Molodist, Clermont-Ferrand, and Krakow. Melodrama is Foreign Finalist Selected among 5 finalists from 29 entries representing 22 foreign countries for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' 2006 Honorary Foreign Film Award in the Student Academy Awards competition. The awards presentation ceremony will be held on Saturday, June 10 in Beverly Hills. Cast: Alan Andersz, Agnieszka Krukowna, Pawel Krolikowski, Monika Jarnuszkiewicz. Producer: Andrzej Bednarek; Screenwriter: Filip Marczewski; Editor: Rafal Listopad; Cinematographer: Radek Ladczuk; Original Score: Paktofonika; Sound: Tomek Wieczorek Filip Marczewski (1974) is a student in the final year of the Polish Film School in Lodz. Melodrama is his third film, before which he shot Bieda-Ziemia (Poor Land) and Cyrano, both in 2004.
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