Konrad Szołajski


Konrad Szołajski, pseudonym Piotr Kaczorowski, is a Polish film director and screenwriter.
He completed Polish studies at the University of Warsaw in 1979 and later studied at the British National Film School. He is an author of fictional and documentary films.
He is the son of :pl:Lucjan Szołajski|Lucjan Szołajski, a film and television voice artist.

Education and research

He completed Polish studies at the University of Warsaw in 1979.
In 1985 he received a master's degree in film and television directing from the University of Silesia in Katowice. Between 1985 and 1987 he studied post-production, directing and filmmaking at the National Film School in the United Kingdom. In 2012 he defended his doctoral degree at the Radio and Television Faculty of the University of Silesia. Then in 1993-94 he taught filmmaking classes at the Department of Polish Culture at the University of Warsaw. Since 2011 he has been teaching at the Faculty of Radio and Television of the University of Silesia and at the Film and Television Directing Department of the National Film School in Łódź.

Awards

In the years 1993-1999 he was nominated three times for the :pl:Złote Lwy|Złote Lwy award.
In 2002 he received the Studio AVA Film award in the :pl:Ogólnopolski Festiwal Mediów Człowiek w Zagrożeniu|Media Festival “Man in Danger” for his documentary Zawód: posłanka.
In 2011 he received the Aleksander Kamiński award in the Media Festival "Man in Danger" for the documentary I Bóg stworzył sex. In the same year he was nominated for the :pl:Złote Grono|Złote Grono award for the documentary Uwodziciele.
In 2012 he received a Złota Kaczka nomination for his film Kop głębiej.
In 2016 he was a Złota Kaczka and :pl:Złote Grono|Złote Grono nominee for the documentary The Battle with Satan.

Documentary about exorcisms

In 2015 Konrad Szołajski created a documentary The Battle with Satan about exorcisms. This caused media interest about the film and the problem of exorcisms in Poland. In December 2016 the German television 3sat issued a program on the subject Exorzismus-Boom in Polen, in which Konrad Szołajski talked about exorcisms and his documentary.

Lectures and appearances

In 2017, Szołajski attended the seventeenth European Skeptics Congress in Old Town Wrocław, Poland. Here, he joined Mariusz Błochowiak, Jakub Kroulík and Chris French on a panel on exorcisms which was chaired by Amardeo Sarma. Later, Szołajski showed the audience his documentary "The Battle with Satan". It followed several people who believed that their life problems could be cured by exorcisms. Attendee Susan Gerbic described it as "excruciating to watch".

Filmography

Fictional