On 9th December 2019 in East Poland House in Brussels the screening of the “The Journalist” documentary movie took place. The screening was organized by the Polish Science Contact Agency and the Regional Office of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship in Brussels, operating within the East Poland House initiative.
The movie is about journalist – Leopold Unger, for whom journalism was a profession, a craft, a way of life, but also a great passion. Leopold Unger published his articles in ‘Życie Warszawy’ until emigration in 1969, then in the Belgian daily ‘Le Soir’. He was a regular collaborator of the Paris “Culture” and Radio Free Europe, he regularly printed comments in the “International Herald Tribune”.
What is more, this documentary is also an attempt to answer the question what is the serious journalism and what is the condition of modern journalism.
The screening was followed by discussion with the film director – Mr. Mateusz Kasiak, and the film producer – Mr. Tomasz Biaduń. Mr. Kasiak told the audience about his personal motivations and inspirations to make the movie, empahsizing many times “the additional value” of this project. Mr. Biaduń stressed out that for him, Leopold Unger is a perfect example of solid journalism which is urgently needed nowadays.
All guests were invited for the evening cocktail.
We encourage you to read the press releases that came out after the event on www.wnp.pl and Polish Press Agency.
More information about movie:
Documentary / Poland, Belgium 2018 (60 minutes)
Screenplay and direction: Mateusz Kasiak; production: Tomasz Biaduń, Mateusz Kasiak; pictures and sound: Tomasz Biaduń, Artur Godziszewski; editing and post-production: Tomasz Biaduń, Dominika Biaduń, Mateusz Kasiak; translation: Roksana Słaby, Michalina Zawitkowska, Mateusz Kasiak; graphics: Dominika Biaduń
Cooperation: prof. Iwona Hofman, Laboratory of Research on the Literary Institute in Paris, affiliated with the Department of Journalism of the Faculty of Political Science and Journalism of Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin
The project was carried out thanks to the Mayor of the city Lublin.
Media patrons and partners: “Gazeta Wyborcza”, “Le Soir”, Cultural Center in Lublin, Faculty of Political Science and Journalism of UMCS in Lublin, Foundation “Pobliża”.
