{"id":16385,"date":"2025-03-07T15:41:33","date_gmt":"2025-03-07T14:41:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/?p=16385"},"modified":"2025-03-17T14:30:53","modified_gmt":"2025-03-17T13:30:53","slug":"were-gonna-need-a-bigger-boat-a-conversation-about-the-art-and-process-of-connecting-films-with-their-audiences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/2025\/03\/07\/were-gonna-need-a-bigger-boat-a-conversation-about-the-art-and-process-of-connecting-films-with-their-audiences\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201dWe\u2019re Gonna Need a Bigger Boat\u201d: A conversation with Karol Piekarczyk the artistic director of the Millennium Docs Against Gravity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-vertical is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-1 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<p><strong>Thursday, Mar 13, 2025 at 12:30 PM \u2013 1:15 PM <\/strong><br><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/movingimage.org\/whats-on\/screenings-and-series\/?gad_source=1&amp;gclid=Cj0KCQiAz6q-BhCfARIsAOezPxm31SSVgaEPxiLrlCDh2sliJcHgMo6TJh5Z8TFNffkpojVEXhPpsZAaAphYEALw_wcB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Museum of the Moving Image (MoMI)<\/a><\/strong><br>Redstone Theater<br>36-01 35 Ave, Astoria, NY 11106<br>Part of <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/movingimage.org\/series\/working-on-it-first-look-2025\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Working on It\u2014First Look 2025<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/movingimage.org\/series\/firstlook2025\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">First Look 2025<\/a><\/strong><br><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/1282.blackbaudhosting.com\/1282\/page.aspx?pid=196&amp;tab=2&amp;txobjid=2c64b8ad-5e87-492d-9b40-ced3daa08fb5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">TICKETS<\/a><\/strong><br><em>The event will be followed by a reception.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:46px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>MoMI and the Polish Cultural Institute New York is pleased to partner with the Polish documentary festival Millennium Docs Against Gravity on presenting&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/movingimage.org\/event\/working-on-it-session-2\/\">We\u2019re&nbsp;Gonna&nbsp;Need a Bigger Boat<\/a>:<\/strong>&nbsp;A&nbsp;conversation&nbsp;about&nbsp;the art (and&nbsp;process) of&nbsp;connecting films&nbsp;with their&nbsp;audiences&nbsp;between Senior Curator of Film Eric Hynes and&nbsp;Karol&nbsp;Piekarczyk, the artistic director of Millennium Docs Against Gravity. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The biggest documentary film festival in Poland,&nbsp;MDAG is&nbsp;the only festival in Europe to take place simultaneously in&nbsp;seven cities throughout the same country.&nbsp;Karol Piekarczyk also oversees&nbsp;Against Gravity,&nbsp;a key player in&nbsp;arthouse film&nbsp;distribution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\"><strong>Full Program<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>12:00\u20133:30 PM&nbsp;<strong>Reverse Shot&nbsp;Emerging Critics Workshop<\/strong>&nbsp;(PRIVATE)&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>12:30\u20131:15&nbsp;PM&nbsp;<strong>\u201cWe\u2019re&nbsp;Gonna&nbsp;Need a Bigger Boat\u201d:<\/strong>&nbsp;A&nbsp;conversation&nbsp;about&nbsp;the art (and&nbsp;process) of&nbsp;connecting films&nbsp;with their&nbsp;audiences&nbsp;between Senior Curator of Film Eric Hynes and&nbsp;Karol&nbsp;Piekarczyk, the artistic director of Millennium Docs Against Gravity. The biggest documentary film festival in Poland,&nbsp;MDAG is&nbsp;the only festival in Europe to take place simultaneously in&nbsp;seven cities throughout the same country.&nbsp;Karol also oversees&nbsp;Against Gravity,&nbsp;a key player in&nbsp;arthouse film&nbsp;distribution.&nbsp;&nbsp;(Redstone Theater)&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1:00\u20132:30 PM&nbsp;<strong>Work-in-progress presentation and discussion:<\/strong>&nbsp;Filmmaker Michael Coleman presents an edit under construction, along with sample scenes, from his debut feature documentary&nbsp;<em>Satan\u2019s Greatest Lies<\/em>. What began as a document of George Haw Russell\u2019s decades-long fight to preserve East Texas\u2019 disappearing wilderness transforms into an intimate study of a man grappling with purpose, loss, and the weight of legacy. This screening presents the first half of the film alongside newly captured material, revealing how their growing trust exposes deeper emotional truths\u2014both about George\u2019s unraveling world and the filmmaker\u2019s shifting role within it. (Bartos Screening Room)&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1:30\u20133:00 PM&nbsp;<strong>Multimedia performance and discussion<\/strong>: Filmmaker Argyro Nicolaou presents&nbsp;<em>Unsettled,&nbsp;<\/em>a multimedia lecture performance and work-in-progress feature that explores the fast-changing landscapes of an island under occupation and the filmmaker\u2019s attempts to reconstruct her mother\u2019s past. (Redstone Theater)&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>3:00\u20135:30 PM&nbsp;<strong>Work-in-progress session:&nbsp;<\/strong>shorts from the Jonathan B. Murray Center for Documentary Journalism at the Missouri School of Journalism. Moderated by First Look Senior Programmer Edo Choi. (Bartos Screening Room)&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>3:15\u20135:30 PM&nbsp;<strong>Work-in-progress presentation and discussion:<\/strong>&nbsp;Amelia Evans presents a cut of her feature-length documentary&nbsp;<em>Minor Attraction,&nbsp;<\/em>an attempt&nbsp;to craft empathetic portraits of three people who acknowledge they have pedophilic desires but who claim never to have sexually interacted with a child\u2014and who each want more support to keep it that way. What emerges is an intimate exploration into shame and loneliness, the limits of empathy, and the cost of our collective silence around desire, pleasure, and the body. (Redstone Theater)&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\"><strong>Millennium<\/strong> <strong>Docs Against Gravity 2025<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The 22nd <em><a href=\"https:\/\/mdag.pl\/20\/en\/warszawa\/homepage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Millennium Docs Against Gravity<\/strong><\/a><\/em> will take place from May 9th to 18th in seven Polish cities, followed by an online event from May 20th to June 2nd, 2025. The 22nd edition of MDAG will be an opportunity to meet with numerous prominent figures from the world of documentary cinema. The festival once again will host filmmakers and film protagonists from various corners of the globe, creating a remarkable occasion for personal conversations and exchange of ideas. The 21st edition of the festival in 2024 gathered an audience of over 165,000 people. As the only film festival in Europe, it takes place simultaneously in 7 cities: Warsaw, Wroc\u0142aw, Gdynia, Pozna\u0144, Katowice, Bydgoszcz, and \u0141\u00f3d\u017a.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2022, Millennium Docs Against Gravity was admitted to the European Film Academy as one of the &#8222;most important European film festivals,&#8221; gaining the opportunity to qualify films for the European Film Award. In 2024, MDAG was included on the prestigious list of the Oscar\u00ae Qualifying Festivals in Feature Documentary Film category.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>MDAG is also a co-founder and member of the Doc Alliance, which brings together seven key European documentary film festivals: CPH: DOX Copenhagen, DOK Leipzig, IDFF Jihlava, FID Marseille, Visions du R\u00e9el Nyon, Doclisboa, and Millennium Docs Against Gravity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"449\" height=\"599\" src=\"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2025\/03\/image_6487327.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16424\" style=\"width:253px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2025\/03\/image_6487327.jpg 449w, https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2025\/03\/image_6487327-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 449px) 100vw, 449px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Karol Piekarczyk is the Artistic Director of Millennium Docs Against Gravity in Poland. With audiences of over 160 000 it is one of the most popular documentary film festivals in the world. For over 15 years he has been working with documentary films and film festivals. He graduated from the University of Glasgow with a Master&#8217;s Degree, with distinction, in Film &amp; TV Studies and in Sociology. Previously he worked with the WATCH DOCS festival in Warsaw, and he was the Artistic Director of the Document Festival in Glasgow. Currently, apart from being the Artistic Director at Millennium Docs Against Gravity, he also oversees film distribution, being responsible for releasing in the last few years over 35 documentary films in cinemas. He has been a member of juries and a consultant on numerous documentary productions.&nbsp;He is a member of the European Film Academy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p><em>This program is a collaboration between MoMI\u2019s First Look Festival and Polish documentary festival&nbsp;Millennium Docs Against Gravity, with MDAG\u2019s Artistic Director Karol Piekarczyk talking about selection from their Warsaw showcase<\/em> <em>and engaging in the Working on It sessions.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"750\" height=\"125\" src=\"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2025\/03\/Untitled-design-29.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16389\" style=\"width:498px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2025\/03\/Untitled-design-29.png 750w, https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2025\/03\/Untitled-design-29-300x50.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday, Mar 13, 2025 at 12:30 PM \u2013 1:15 PM Museum of the Moving Image (MoMI)Redstone Theater36-01 35 Ave, Astoria, NY 11106Part of Working on It\u2014First Look 2025 and First Look 2025TICKETSThe event will be followed by a reception. 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Karol Piekarczyk also oversees Against Gravity, a key player in arthouse film distribution.\\nFull Program\\n12:00\u20133:30 PM Reverse Shot Emerging Critics Workshop (PRIVATE) \\n12:30\u20131:15 PM \u201cWe\u2019re Gonna Need a Bigger Boat\u201d: A conversation about the art (and process) of connecting films with their audiences between Senior Curator of Film Eric Hynes and Karol Piekarczyk, the artistic director of Millennium Docs Against Gravity. The biggest documentary film festival in Poland, MDAG is the only festival in Europe to take place simultaneously in seven cities throughout the same country. Karol also oversees Against Gravity, a key player in arthouse film distribution.  (Redstone Theater) \\n1:00\u20132:30 PM Work-in-progress presentation and discussion: Filmmaker Michael Coleman presents an edit under construction, along with sample scenes, from his debut feature documentary Satan\u2019s Greatest Lies. What began as a document of George Haw Russell\u2019s decades-long fight to preserve East Texas\u2019 disappearing wilderness transforms into an intimate study of a man grappling with purpose, loss, and the weight of legacy. This screening presents the first half of the film alongside newly captured material, revealing how their growing trust exposes deeper emotional truths\u2014both about George\u2019s unraveling world and the filmmaker\u2019s shifting role within it. (Bartos Screening Room) \\n1:30\u20133:00 PM Multimedia performance and discussion: Filmmaker Argyro Nicolaou presents Unsettled, a multimedia lecture performance and work-in-progress feature that explores the fast-changing landscapes of an island under occupation and the filmmaker\u2019s attempts to reconstruct her mother\u2019s past. (Redstone Theater) \\n3:00\u20135:30 PM Work-in-progress session: shorts from the Jonathan B. Murray Center for Documentary Journalism at the Missouri School of Journalism. Moderated by First Look Senior Programmer Edo Choi. (Bartos Screening Room) \\n3:15\u20135:30 PM Work-in-progress presentation and discussion: Amelia Evans presents a cut of her feature-length documentary Minor Attraction, an attempt to craft empathetic portraits of three people who acknowledge they have pedophilic desires but who claim never to have sexually interacted with a child\u2014and who each want more support to keep it that way. What emerges is an intimate exploration into shame and loneliness, the limits of empathy, and the cost of our collective silence around desire, pleasure, and the body. (Redstone Theater) \\nMillennium Docs Against Gravity 2025\\nThe 22nd Millennium Docs Against Gravity will take place from May 9th to 18th in seven Polish cities, followed by an online event from May 20th to June 2nd, 2025. The 22nd edition of MDAG will be an opportunity to meet with numerous prominent figures from the world of documentary cinema. The festival once again will host filmmakers and film protagonists from various corners of the globe, creating a remarkable occasion for personal conversations and exchange of ideas. The 21st edition of the festival in 2024 gathered an audience of over 165,000 people. As the only film festival in Europe, it takes place simultaneously in 7 cities: Warsaw, Wroc\u0142aw, Gdynia, Pozna\u0144, Katowice, Bydgoszcz, and \u0141\u00f3d\u017a.\\nIn 2022, Millennium Docs Against Gravity was admitted to the European Film Academy as one of the \\\"most important European film festivals,\\\" gaining the opportunity to qualify films for the European Film Award. 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