Pianoforte, an intimate coming-of-age portrait of young pianists, that was part of East Doc Platform 2022, just won Best Arts Programming Emmy at the 52nd International Emmy Awards! Huge congratulations to Jakub Piątek, Maciej Kubicki and the whole team. We are so proud of our alumni!
Pianoforte (dir. Jakub Piątek, prod. Maciej Kubicki, 2023, Poland)
During the preliminary round, there are 160 of them. Then, about 80. And 40. At last, only 10 lucky ones make it to the final. The protagonists of Pianoforte are young people from around the world and participants of the Chopin Competition held every five years in Warsaw. This is the oldest competition of this importance and the only monographic contest dedicated to Chopin’s music. Its renown has resulted from a record number of pianist celebrities who participated in the Competition when they were young: from Dmitri Shostakovich awarded with an honourable mention, to Martha Argerich, Maurizio Pollini, Daniil Trifonov, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Dang Thai Son, and finally to Krystian Zimerman. The Competition involves powerful emotions, both on stage and in the audience. It is an exceptional chance that happens once in a lifetime. The protagonists, whose lives have revolved around playing the piano since their childhood, are like athletes at the Olympic Games, in which the stakes are their future.
The project participated in the East Doc Forum 2022 and won Pitch the Doc Prize and DOK Leipzig Accelerator Award for DOK Preview Training at that year's East Doc Platform. You can listen to our True Story podcast with it's director and producer.
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