Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Agnieszka Piotrowska (b. ?1964, Warsaw ) is an award winning BBC trained documentary filmmaker. Her latest film "The Engagement Party in Harare" was nominated for the Best Documentary Film at the International Images Festival for Women in November 2012 in Zimbabwe. Piotrowska was the only European filmmaker to be granted a distinction in the documentary competition. The festival is the most important event of its kind in Africa and was founded by the notable filmmaker and writer Tsitsi Dangarembga. Piotrowska was amongst the 30 most successful creative Polish people featured in an exhibition at the Barbican¹s Museum of London (October/November 2009) entitled London Creatives/Polish Roots organised in conjunction with the Polish Cultural Institute. In 2011 she was the only Western filmmaker present at the Harare International Festival of the Arts where she also put on a theatre performance.Piotrowska went to school in Sopot, Poland and Sweden. She studied at Hull University, and received a MA in Modern European Drama at Reading University with special supervision at Christ Church, Oxford. She was taught by professor James Knowlson who is a world authority on Samuel Beckett.Over the years she has interviewed Roman Polanski, David Puttnam, Micky Rourke, Sting, Oscar de la Renta, Lech Wałęsa, and other celebrities as well as working with convicted criminals or the dispossessed around the world, particularly in Africa.. }
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- Agnieszka_Piotrowska abstract "Agnieszka Piotrowska (b. ?1964, Warsaw ) is an award winning BBC trained documentary filmmaker. Her latest film "The Engagement Party in Harare" was nominated for the Best Documentary Film at the International Images Festival for Women in November 2012 in Zimbabwe. Piotrowska was the only European filmmaker to be granted a distinction in the documentary competition. The festival is the most important event of its kind in Africa and was founded by the notable filmmaker and writer Tsitsi Dangarembga. Piotrowska was amongst the 30 most successful creative Polish people featured in an exhibition at the Barbican¹s Museum of London (October/November 2009) entitled London Creatives/Polish Roots organised in conjunction with the Polish Cultural Institute. In 2011 she was the only Western filmmaker present at the Harare International Festival of the Arts where she also put on a theatre performance.Piotrowska went to school in Sopot, Poland and Sweden. She studied at Hull University, and received a MA in Modern European Drama at Reading University with special supervision at Christ Church, Oxford. She was taught by professor James Knowlson who is a world authority on Samuel Beckett.Over the years she has interviewed Roman Polanski, David Puttnam, Micky Rourke, Sting, Oscar de la Renta, Lech Wałęsa, and other celebrities as well as working with convicted criminals or the dispossessed around the world, particularly in Africa.".