Ep09 Getting the greenlight from HBO - with Anna Stylińska Artwork

CVP Presents: Still Rolling

Still Rolling, the moment on set when the actor fluffs their lines, the pyrotechnics go off early, you’ve set the runner on fire and the camera operator pretends they hit record when they ask for another take. Sometimes you just have to push on. Josh Allen brings guests out of their shell with regular feature ‘On Set Confessions’, pries into their private lives and provides a bit of counselling. Guests are from all over the film industry, the unsung heroes to the stiffs in charge of the money. Josh finds out what gets them out of bed in the morning and what keeps them up at night.

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CVP Presents: Still Rolling

Ep09 Getting the greenlight from HBO - with Anna Stylińska

June 24, 2020 • CVP // Josh Allen • Episode 9

We’re lucky enough to welcome Anna Stylińska on to the Still Rolling show in Episode 9. An up and coming producer from Poland she’s most recently been championing the film in discussion today. Lessons On Love is a feature length documentary featuring the incredibly charming Jola. The film itself is very unique in its mix of styles and it captures Jola on her journey to rediscover life after getting sick of her abusive husband. This brings with it fantastic scenes, dancing lessons, singing lessons and inhaling helium in the park with her new boyfriend. All at the age of 69. The contrast of Jola’s potty mouth and her timeless sense of style has you rooting for this old dear throughout the film. The film itself was co-produced with HBO Europe and is currently embarking on the festival circuit. With the festival circuit being such a pivotal part of a documentary’s distribution we discuss the implications of Covid on getting eyes on the film in a situation where you can’t publicly screen. Thankfully the global crisis hasn’t slowed down the momentum of the film as it picks up invites to some of the biggest documentary festivals in the world.

Anna Stylińska is a documentary filmmaker and independent producer. Graduated from Cinema Studies (University Paris X), Creative Producer’s Course (Wajda School), photography and philosophy. Gathered experience in different areas of cinema production as a production manager, co-director, first AD, screenwriter and manager at a film festival. She was responsible for the promotion of Polish cinema abroad in the Adam Mickiewicz Institute (under the Ministry of Culture). For many years organized cinema workshops for disadvantaged youth. Assisted Pawel Lozinski on: "You have no idea how much I love you”. Currently working on her feature debut "Lessons of love", a co-production with HBO and running Widok Foundation which organizes workshops for filmmakers and produces creative documentaries.