Szpila

Running time: 30'

Szpila
Production: Poland 2014

The vigorous Szpila is a single mother to twin girls diagnosed with autism. Szpila does everything to introduce joy and hope into her family life. Love is already there. The protagonist trains, sings songs written for her daughters, seeks medical solutions. She cries when it's necessary. She laughs whenever it's possible. Szpila's efforts and energy are to bring about the best.

 

 

 

Authors:

  • Ewa Golis

    Ewa Golis – 4th-year student of Editing at the Direction Faculty of the National Film School in Łódź. She fulfills her interests and passion by editing documentary films and making her own documentaries, where by means of a video camera she tells extraordinary stories of the protagonists. In her films she depicts, with great sensitivity, their worlds, problems, and environments wherein they live and function everyday. She associates her professional future with producing and editing documentary films that are more complete in their form, both according to her own ideas and in cooperation with other directors. The films of Ewa Golis are deeply engaged socially. In 2010 she produced a short documentary entitled Zwyczajni, where the camera was operated by the participants of her film workshops, wards of the Self-Help Centre for the Disabled in Podkowa Leśna.

    Filmography:

    Szpila (30 min), documentary, 2014
    Pata (9 min), feature, 2012
    Zwyczajni (10 min), documentary, 2009
    Dwa bieguny sztuki (12 min), documentary, 2008

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