The difficulty with the present state of affairs is that there is no legislation on the sources of funding for the Polish film industry. There is no legislation concerning filmmaking. And, there is no legislation on television that would be beneficial to filmmaking. |
Even better, there were established two separate committees deciding on state film funding. |
The difficulty of writing a good theatre play set in new reality was even greater given that the level of similitude to life that is allowed in a film would not work on the stage. |
Nevertheless, in the theatre, and in the cinema, the contemporary reality of Poland has been represented only to a minuscule degree in the last 12 years. |
Previously the same Polish audiences would have been pressured into seeing cinema made for adults, films made by us about those spheres of life that were significant for us and which should be significant for our society. |
When a film is created, it is created in a language, which is not only about words, but also the way that very language encodes our perception of the world, our understanding of it. |
In the first years after the systemic transition, our screens showed American entertainment that had not been available before, or had been available only sporadically. |
It turned out that the country was helpless in the face of a new reality. |
Films made in the spirit of the past continued to be made. |
In Europe, there is no television filmmaking legislation that could assist film production because private broadcasters are not interested in supporting Polish film. |
Cinemas gained new young audiences who wanted films made for them. |