Dawid Janicki
Production
Biography
Dawid Janicki is producer and vice-president at East Studio, and co-founder of production companies Vostok8 and SHIPsBOY. A graduate of: Underwater Archeology at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, the Film Art Organization Department of the Film School in Lodz and the Course for Creative Producers at the Wajda School. In 2016-2018, Vice-President of the Polish Audiovisual Producers Chamber of Commerce. Initiator of the Polish Producers Guild established in 2018.
Known For

A documentary series about heroines of the II World War. Stories told from the perspective of the characters are full of emotions and tension, they show courage, sacrifice, willpower but also recklessness or pragmatism. Characters of the series are not flawless monuments but regular women with their own problems, who happened to play an important role in the history. The visual style of the project is animadoc. It comprises archival materials, interviews with experts, and sequences of fictionalised scenes: shots stylised as comic frames, where an actor is connected with scenography hand-drawn by comics illustrators.
Wartime Portraits: Women

The warmhearted story of Polish immigrant and mathematician Stan Ulam, who moved to the U.S. in the 1930s. Stan deals with the difficult losses of family and friends all while helping to create the hydrogen bomb and the first computer.
Adventures of a Mathematician

After climbing Broad Peak mountain, Maciej Berbeka learns his journey to the summit is incomplete. 25 years later, he sets out to finish what he started.
Broad Peak
A young married couple decides to appear in a porn movie to shore up their joint budget.
Z miłości
Expert interviews, archival footage and engaging reenactments tell the stories of five of World War II's most colorful heroes.
Wartime Portraits

“Where is the human soul? Is it in the heart? In the brain? Or maybe elsewhere?”, wonders an old doctor who has spent his life working at a psychiatric hospital in the Siberian countryside. The place, which was inaccessible for film crews, can be shown thanks to its residents, some of whom spent several decades at the hospital. This discreet and, at the same time, insightful observation of the patients’ daily lives transforms into meditation on the human nature, which is not entirely penetrable.