Participants of US in Progress Wroclaw 2022 Announced!

Invite-only work-in-progress screenings of American independent films in their final editing stages, curated from a record number of submissions, will be screened for European and Polish film professionals, festival programmers and buyers. Additionally, projects will compete for in-kind awards of post-production service packages.

Congratulations to the 2022 US in Progress participants:

• CrookedFinger directed by Julia Halperin and Jason Cortlund, produced by Julia Halperin and Todd Remis
• Falling Stars directed and produced by Richard Karpala and Gabriel Bienczycki
• Kids Go Free to Fun Fun Time directed by Ben Hicks, produced by Liz Cardenas
• LaRoy directed by Shane Atkinson, produced by Sebastien Aubert, Jeremie Guiraud and Caddy Vanasirikul
• Mountains directed by Monica Sorelle, produced by Robert Colom
• Playland directed by Georden West, produced by Russell Sheaffer, Danielle Cooper, Hannah McSwiggen
• Summer Solstice directedby Noah Schamus, produced by Jess Zeidman, Jesse Miller, Arno Mokros, Noah Schamus
• The Christmas Card directedby Lucy Kerr, produced by Fred Winkle, Megan Pickrell

The 2022 US in Progress Wrocław partners providing in-kind awards of post-production service packages totalling up to $10,000 from leading Polish sound and image studios are:

• Black Photon
• Fixafilm
• Orka Studio
• Platige Image
• Maciej Zielinski from Soundflower Studio
• XANF

The Director of the Polish Film Institute, Radosław Śmigulski, will award one project with a $50,000 cash award to be spent on post-production, image, sound and/or VFX in Poland.

Thanks to partnerships with Polish Producers Alliance, Crew United and Filmmakers for Ukraine, the event will be complemented by pitches of Polish and Ukrainian projects in development as well as networking opportunities for producers seeking partners from the US. The event will also feature presentations explaining Polish production incentives and industry panel talks.

To learn more or contact US in Progress please email: aff@snh.org.pl