DARIUSZ JABŁOŃSKI

producer of the film ‘Traces’

Dariusz Jabłoński is a film director and producer; founder and chairman of Apple Film Production (established in 1990) and co-founder of Message Film. He produced and directed the film *Wizyta starszej pani* (1986), considered the first Polish independent documentary film, and ‘Fotoamator’ (1998), which won numerous international awards, including the FIPA d’Or Grand Prix, the Prix Planète in Biarritz (1999) and the VPRO Joris Ivens Award Grand Prix at the IDFA festival in Amsterdam (1998). Jabłoński is the initiator of the Polish Film Awards, founder of the Polish Film Academy and the Independent Film Foundation, which also runs ScripTeast, a training programme for screenwriters from Central and Eastern Europe. He is president of the Polish Film Academy and chairman of the European Producers Club, as well as a member of the European Film Academy.