POLISH DOCUMENTARY ON AMERICAN TV
American television will show Polish documentary “Six Weeks” by Marcin Janos Krawczyk. What is more, the film will be available online for American audience.
POV (that comes from the film term for "point of view") is an American television's longest-running showcase for independent non-fiction films. Since 1988, POV has presented over 300 films to public television audiences across the country.
What is more, in cooperation with PBS (www.pbs.org) POV chooses fourteen to sixteen the best, the boldest and the most innovative programs every year for PBS’ platform. This year POV chose a Polish documentary “Six Weeks” by Marcin Janos Krawczyk. The film will be available online from 24th August 2011 to 23rd August 2015.
“Six Weeks” will be also shown as a part of the one hour short documentary slot that POV will broadcast on August 23, 2011.
More information can be found here.
Marcin Janos Krawczyk’s film shows a story of a woman who gives her newborn baby away for adoption. Within six weeks she has to make her decision on waiving her parental rights. It is final and irreversible. After giving her consent to adoption, the biological mother may not receive any information on the place of residence of her child. She is only entitled to write a letter to him. The film gives an overview of what happens to an accidentally conceived newborn baby over the first six weeks of his life.
Marcin Janos Krawczyk’s debut, lasting nearly 20 minutes, has been frequently appreciated and awarded at international film festivals. Among others „Six weeks” has been honoured with the award for the Best Short Film at International Documentary Film Festival IDFA taking place in Amsterdam in November 2009 and „Silver eye” award for the Best Short Film at International Documentary Festival in the very same year in Jihlava.