Scenes from “Passion” screen @ Green Town Jazz Festival in Zielona Góra Thursday, April 30th, 2009 @ 9:05 pm
Excerpts from the feature length of “Passion” screened in Zielona Góra on April 25. Following a concert with Ron Carter (who played in the string section of Seifert’s record, “Passion”) the festival dedicated a day to Seifert.
The screening followed a panel discussion with Agnieszka Seifert-Beck (Zbigniew’s widow) along with Antoni Krupa (author of the recently released book, “Antoni Krupa – Miasto blekitnych nut…” (City of Blue Notes), Aneta Norek (author of the new Seifert biography) and many others…
A violin summit followed featuring Henryk Gembalski, Mateusz Smoczynski, Adam Baldych – violin, Jan Smoczynski – piano, Wojciech Pulcyn – bass, Lukasz Zyta – drums.
Thank you to my editor/production assistant/second camera Erin Greenwell for her endurance on this short weekend trip. Besides participating in the festival and screening we shot footage throughout the weekend.
Thank you to Jacek Plichta for the best sound recording any director could dream of and for helping us with the hardest most impossible Polish words to pronounce (see video).
Thank you to Magdalena Warejko, director of the first annual Seifert jazz festival in Krakow, for coming to the screening.
Special thanks to Dariusz Machniak for all night Polish subtitling! (see video) and to Jacek Duzynski for his generous hosting! Dziekuje!!
