Wojciech Staroń
Wojciech Staroń – cinematographer and film director. He was born in 1973 in Ostrowiec Świetokrzyski. A graduate of the Cinematographic Department at the Film School in Łódź, he has shot over twenty documentaries and feature length fiction films. Staroń is a member of the European Film Academy and Polish Society of Cinematographers (PSC), an association of feature filmmakers. He made his documentary debut with “The Siberian Lesson” (1998), which won awards, e.g. in Amsterdam (IDFA) and Krakow. He received the Silver Bear Award at Berlinale 2011 for his photography to “El Premio” (dir. Paula Markovitch).
W stronę światła (2007)
For a while (2005)
The Siberian Lesson (1998)
Films
- The Argentinian Lesson / Argentyńska lekcja56'
Wojciech Staroń, POL 2011, 56’
The wife of the film's author becomes a Polish language teacher in Azara, Argentina. The whole family – the married couple and two children – goes to South America. Azara is a modest town where it always rains. The Starońs’ eight-year-old son, Jasiek, becomes friends with Marcia Majcher, the daughter of a descendant of Polish emigrants. Marcia is mature beyond her age: her father, for financial reasons, lives on a plantation far from the family home, her mother has emotional problems. The girl tries different occupations: she tries to start a shop, works at brick production. Jasiek accompanies and helps her, for him she is a guide to the strange world of another country and another continent. His mom's contract is about to end.
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