Jarek Kupsc
{{short description|American film director}}
Jarosław "Jarek" Kupść (born December 26, 1966) is a Polish-American film director, screen writer, and actor.
Early life and education
He started shooting films at the age of sixteen in his native Poland. In 1985, he left Poland for Greece, where he studied Byzantine icon painting and worked as a freelance cartoonist.The Boulder Weekly, Aug. 28-Sept. 3, 2008 He emigrated to the United States in 1987 and became a naturalized citizen in 1992. He graduated from San Francisco State University in 1995 with a degree in writing/directing, while also pursuing a career as a graphic artist. In 1998, Kupść wrote and illustrated a film history book, The History of Cinema for Beginners.
Film career
Kupść made his directorial debut with Recoil which was awarded Best Feature Film at Woodstock Film Festival in 2001.{{cite web|url=http://www.filmfestivals.com/blog/editor/woodstock_honors_irecoil_wendigoi|title=Woodstock Honors Recoil & Wendigo|author=|date=|website=filmfestivals.com|accessdate=21 August 2017}} He followed with a road movie in 2006 titled Slumberland which won the Special Jury Prize at the Gdynia Film Festival{{cite web|url=http://www.festiwalgdynia.pl/en/wirtualny_festiwal/33----_2006.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170812023049/http://www.festiwalgdynia.pl/en/wirtualny_festiwal/33----_2006.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=August 12, 2017|title=Winners|last=AXE|date=|website=festiwalgdynia.pl|accessdate=21 August 2017}}
His 2008 feature, The Reflecting Pool, was one of the first narrative films dealing with the investigation of the September 11th attacks,{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/11/movies/11refl.html|title=Trade Secrets|author=|date=11 July 2008|website=The New York Times|accessdate=21 August 2017}}{{cite web|url=http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/reflecting-pool-125511|title=The Reflecting Pool|author=|date=15 July 2008|website=hollywoodreporter.com|accessdate=21 August 2017}}Hollywood's Chosen People: The Jewish Experience in American Cinema Daniel Bernardi, pg 152
After returning to Poland in 2010, he wrote and directed Kliny (Wedges) and began his association with the Warsaw Film School in Warsaw, Poland,{{cite web | url=https://warsawfilmschool.com/en/wsf/C_WSFO.WSF.4/FACULTY | title=Faculty | date=10 July 2024 }} where he teaches at the international department. His last film to date is the award-winning Quintuplets,{{cite web | url=https://watch.eventive.org/sf32020/play/5f5f63efa79450008a64c6be | title=Quintuplets | [FEATURE] Quintuplets | SF3 - SmartFone Flick Fest 2020 }} shot on a mobile phone.
Jarek Kupść' film and art essays have been published by Little White Lies,{{cite web | url=https://lwlies.com/articles/the-french-connection-gene-hackman-cop-movie/ | title=How the French Connection reinvented the Hollywood cop movie }} Cineaste{{cite web | url=https://www.cineaste.com/fall2023/enter-the-dragon-exit-the-stereotypes-bruce-lee-and-the-most-influential-martial-arts-movie-ever | title=Enter the Dragon, Exit the Stereotypes: Bruce Lee and the Most Influential Martial Arts Movie Ever }} and other magazines.
Selected filmography
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| Year | Title | Role | Awards |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Quintuplets | Director, Screenwriter, Producer, Cinematographer (as Yaro Ghillis) | Best Feature Film – SmartFone3 Film Festival, Best Mobile Film, Best Actor – L'Âge d'or International Arthouse FF, Best Mobile Film, Best Director – Tagore International FF |
| 2015 | Kliny | Director, Screenwriter, Producer, Cinematographer | |
| 2008 | The Reflecting Pool | Director, Screenwriter | Columbine Award, Moondance Film Festival; Special Jury Prize, Polish Film Festival in America (Chicago) |
| 2006 | Slumberland | Director, Screenwriter, Producer | Special Jury Prize, Gdynia Film Festival; Young Screenwriter, YFF{{cite web|url=http://kino.dlastudenta.pl/artykul/YFF_nagrody_rozdane,10508.html|title=YFF – nagrody rozdane|author=|date=10 December 2006|website=dlastudenta.pl|accessdate=21 August 2017}} |
| 2001 | Recoil | Director, Screenwriter, Producer | Best Feature Film, Woodstock Film Festival;{{cite web|url=http://www.woodstockfilmfestival.com/archives/2001schedule/awards2001.htm|title=2001 Award Winners|author=|date=|website=woodstockfilmfestival.com|accessdate=21 August 2017}} Best First Feature, Wine Country Film Festival; Best First Feature, Dahlonega Film Festival |
| 1995 | Dog | Director, Screenwriter, Cinematographer | Rosebud Award for Best Student Film, CSA Film Festival{{cite web|url=http://blogs.calstate.edu/summerarts/media-arts-festival/winners-archive/|title=Winners Archive|author=|date=|website=calstate.edu|accessdate=21 August 2017}} |
References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|nm1141859|Jarek Kupsc}}
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Category:Film directors from California
Category:Polish film directors