West Pomerania Shorts Jury

Marek Fiałek

German studies at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. In 1995 moved to Germany for one semester and has been living there ever since. He defended his MA paper on Master Eckhart and his PhD dissertation on the Berlin bohemia of the late 19th century. After staying in Hanover, Potsdam, Berlin, and Bamberf, he settled in Pomerania, his home region. Co-organiser of the polenmARkT festival and of Ukrainicum and Polonicum summer schools, lecturer of Polish language at the Greifswald University, coordinator of the project “Język polski od przedszkola do matury” (“Polish language from kindergarten to the matura exam”) in German schools on the borderland, author of German research papers on Berlin bohemia, Stanisław Przybyszewski, and Alfred Mombert, a forgotten German poet of Jewish descent, among other works.

Damian Romaniak

Film and literature expert, PhD in humanities, animator of film culture, film critic, columnist, lecturer. In Szczecin he has hosted the “Kino Konesera” series at the Helios multiplex, has also run the “Cyklino” Academic Film Club; author of articles on film and literature. Co-editor and co-author of the „Język, literatura i kultura – razem czy osobno?” academic volume. He cooperates with the literary-cultural “eleWator” quarterly magazine, Onet.Film and with the Horror Online website. Currently co-host of the Konfrontacje film society at the Academy of Art in Szczecin.