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- filmmaker and horror writer -
Anna Taborska
CONTACT DETAILS: AGENT
Mike Sharland
THE SHARLAND ORGANISATION
+44-(0)1933 626 600
tso@btconnect.com
www.sharlandorganisation.co.uk
BASIC EDUCATION
October 2001-June 2002 Lodz Film School, Directing Dept (Poland)
One Year Traineeship, Polish Government Scholarship
October 1999-June 2000 Lodz Film School, Directing Dept (as above)
October 1991-June 1992 Warsaw University, Psychology Dept (Poland)
Polish Government Scholarship
October 1987-June 1991 Oxford University, St Hilda's College
2:1 BA (Hons) in Experimental Psychology
DIRECTING (WRITER/DIRECTOR/PRODUCER)
DRAMA
The Rain Has Stopped, 55 min. (English language) Beta SP TV drama, co-production with Bizmane Entertainment, UK. Winner of 2 awards (‘Best actor – short’ and ‘Best supporting actress – short’) and nominated for 2 other awards (‘Best short – UK’ and ‘Best actress – short’) at the British Film Festival Los Angeles, 2009. Also screened at the International Film Festival Thailand, 2009; International Film Festival South Africa, 2009; International Film Festival Ireland 2009.
The Sin 23 min. (Polish language, English subtitles) Beta SP short, Poland. Honorable Mention (‘Best Foreign Film’ category) at the Los Angeles Reel Film Festival 2011. Screened at: SMOFI Film Festival, Poland; the Swansea Bay International Film Festival 2010.
Ela 13 min. (English language) Beta SP short, Poland. Honorable Mention, Los Angeles Movie Awards (I), 2011. Also screened at Raindance Film Festival, UK; Volcano Film Festival, UK; Euroshorts Film Festival, Poland; Atlanta Horror Film Festival, US, 2010.
DOCUMENTARY
A Fragment of Being 65 min. (Polish language, English subtitles) miniDVCam documentary, Poland & UK. Nominated for ‘Best European Documentary’ award at the International Film Festival South Africa 2009. Nominated for ‘Human Sprit’ award at the Chagrin Documentary Film Festival 2010. Honorable Mention, Los Angeles Movie Awards (II), 2010. Also screened at the International Film Festival Ireland, 2009.
My Uprising 16 min. (Polish language) miniDV documentary, Poland, completed 2004. Transmitted by Polish TV channel Planete Polska, 2005-2006. Honorable Mention, Los Angeles Movie Awards, 2012. Honorable Mention (‘Best Documentary Short’ category) at the Los Angeles Reel Film Festival 2009. Also Screened at: Raindance Film Festival, UK, 2004; Liverpool Film Night, UK; Euroshorts, Poland; SMOFI, Poland; the Polish Film Festival in Chicago, USA; New York Short Film Festival, USA.
WRITING
FEATURE LENGTH SCREENPLAYS (COMPLETED)
The Bloody Tower the British Government turns the Tower of London into a concentration camp for terror
suspects, unwittingly unleashing the Tower's ghosts
Chainsaw teen horror about disastrous summer holiday
The Camp modern urban ghost story with flashbacks to the Holocaust
(QUARTER-FINALIST, 14th ANNUAL FADE IN AWARDS, 2009)
Pizzaman horror/thriller about a pizza delivery boy who unwittingly attracts the attentions of a female
serial killer (co-written with Martin Kittappa and Brian J. Hutton)
SHORT SCREENPLAYS (COMPLETED)
Little Pig fleeing from a hungry wolf pack, a woman is forced to make an horrific choice
(FINALIST, SHRIEKFEST SCREENPLAY COMPETITION, 2009 – BEST SHORT SCREENPLAY)
Arthur’s cellar Arthur faces a challenge when the Nazi cannibal his grandfather keeps in his cellar makes
a run for it
Curious Melvin the story of a man who is his own worst enemy
SHORT STORIES & NOVELETTES (options available)
FOR THOSE WHO DREAM MONSTERS – single author collection, publ. Mortbury Press, 2013
Over 30 published horror short stories and novelettes, including:
Tea with the Devil published in “Strange Halloween”, 2012; award, Whortleberry Press BEST HORROR
Strange Halloween
Buy a Goat for Christmas published in “Best New Werewolf Tales Volume 1”, 2012
Little Pig published in “The Eighth Black Book of Horror”, 2011; reprinted in “The Best Horror of the
Year Vol. Four”, 2012; runner-up, Best Short Story, The Abyss Awards 2011
Bagpuss published in “The Sixth Black Book of Horror”, 2010, and “Best New Writing 2011”;
HONOUREE, Eric Hoffer Award for Short Prose, 2010
The Bloody Tower published in “Terror Tales of London”, 2013; reprinted in “Best British Horror 2014”, 2014
EMPLOYMENT: FILM AND TV
ASSISTANT PRODUCER
World War Two: Behind Closed Doors BBC History TV series (produced & directed by Laurence Rees), 2006-2008
(screened Nov/Dec 2008, BBC2).
RESEARCHER
Touched by Auschwitz Laurence Rees History TV Limited (producer: Laurence Rees), 2014-2015
(screened 9pm Tuesday 27th January 2015, BBC 2).
Inside Out BBC Leeds TV series (producers: Morland Sanders & Lucy Smickersgill).
Including some HD/DV camera operating, 2006.
The Somme: From Defeat to victory BBC History programme (producer: Detlef Siebert), 2004–2005
(screened 8pm Sunday 2nd July 2006, BBC 1).
Auschwitz: the Nazis and the Final Solution BBC History TV series (series producer: Laurence Rees). Including self-
operating director on The Making of “Auschwitz: the Nazis and the
Final Solution” for BBC Worldwide. 2003–2004
(screened Jan/Feb 2005, BBC2).
SECOND UNIT DIRECTOR
Number 1 Longing. Number 2 Regret DVCam feature with Jenny Agutter, UK, 2001.
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY
The Shoe DVC short, UK, 2001.
CAMERA OPERATOR
Frontier Wrestling Association TV series DVCam, UK, 2001.
FIRST ASSISTANT DIRECTOR
The Presentiment DVCam short, UK, 2011.
Voices 35 mm short, Lodz Film School, Poland, 2000.
Metamorphosis 35 mm short, Lodz Film School, 2000.
Doordesh 13-part drama series produced by Asian Pictures (UK), 1997-98.
The Basketball Killer Super 16 mm short, UK, 1997.
SECOND ASSISTANT DIRECTOR
Mortus Illumina DVCam feature, UK, 2000-2001.
ASSISTANT TO DIRECTOR
Simon Magus 35 mm feature, dir. Ben Hopkins, UK, 1998.
PRODUCTION ASSISTANT/RUNNER
Three Day Movie 35 mm feature shot during the Raindance Film Festival, UK, 1997. Runner.
Find the River Super 8 mm short UK, 1997. Production assistant, sound recordist, boom
operator, camera & lighting assistant.
One for the Girls Super 16 mm short, UK, 1997. Runner.
ACTING
Number 1 Longing. Number 2 Regret DVCam feature with Jenny Agutter, UK, 2001.
‘Woman in Spears’ office’ (uncredited).
The Honeytrap 35 mm feature, UK, 2000. Extra.
The Soul Sings 35 mm feature, dir. K. Zanussi, Poland, 1996. ‘Opera fan’ (uncredited).
VOICEOVER WORK
Tamara de Lempicka BBC Arts TV documentary about Tamara de Lempicka,
dir. Helen Nixon, May 2004. 'Tamara de Lempicka'.
LANGUAGE WORK
The Nine Lives of Tomas Katz 35mm feature, dir. Ben Hopkins, UK, 2001. Consultant on Polish
language version.
Our God’s Brother 35 mm feature, dir. Krzysztof Zanussi, UK, 1997. Interpreter during
sound mixing & language consultant during revoicing.
Miscellaneous freelance work Film script translation Polish to English, 1995.
Interpreter, 38th London Film Festival, NFT, 1994.
Translation work for BBC, Science & Features, 1994.
Translation work and subtitling for CNN, 1994.
Polish language consultancy for Channel 4, 1994.
COURSES: FILM & TV
March 2012 Power of DSLR, Raindance course, London
Nov 2011 Movie Money, Raindance Producer’s Foundation Certificate course, London
Nov 2011 21st Century Storyteller with Linda Aronson, London Screenwriters’ Festival
March 2011 SFX Makeup course with Stuart Bray, London
April 2009 David Freeman’s Beyond Structure, Raindance scriptwriting course, London
July 2008 Dan Martin’s SFX for Lo Budget Filmmaking, Raindance, London
March 2007 John Truby’s ‘Working with & Understanding Genre’, Raindance scriptwriting course
August 2006 The Power of Lighting, Raindance lighting course
2006 Directing Commercials, Raindance course, London
July 2005 Writing Horror, course with Nic Ransome, London
May 2005 Robert McKee Story Seminar, London
Oct-Dec 2004 The Horror Film and its Audience, NFT course, London
March 2004 BBC course ‘Shooting with the Sony VX2000 miniDV’
August 1997 Panico Foundation course in practical film-making
January 1995 Feature Film Directing Course with John Jost, Raindance
Sept 1994 Feature Film Production Course with Dov S-S Simmens, Raindance
OTHER EMPLOYMENT (selected)
July-Aug 2009 Polish to English book translation, “My Enchanting Toruń” poetry antho. (publ. A. Marszałek, Poland)
Mar-Sept 2001 Machine operator, Millnet, London
Spring 2000 Polish to English book translation: “Poland in Images and Words” by P. Wojciechowski
Sept 1997 Production Assistant, Gala International, London: video shoot organisation
Mar’96-Aug’97 Advertising and PR Account Executive, Cheil Communications London Branch: copywriting, account
management, Pan-European PR campaign co-ordination, newsletter production for Samsung Group
Aug’95-Jan’96 Researcher and copywriter, London Evening Standard: wrote weekly page “Man on the Clapham
Omnibus”, London
Jan-June 1994 Press and PR Officer, Polish Cultural Institute, London
CAMERA SKILLS Sony VX1000, Sony PD150, Sony VX2000
COMPUTER SOFTWARE AVID, Adobe Premiere, Microsoft Word, Powerpoint, Excel
LANGUAGES Bilingual in English/Polish, basic French, very basic Russian & German
INTERESTS Horror films; writing; psychology & parapsychology; art
LINKS
Anna Taborska: CV
CONTACT DETAILS: DIRECT
IMDb listing http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1245940/
E-zine fiction http://www.thehorrorzine.com/Fiction/October2009/Anna%20Taborska.html
Wicked review http://wickedchannel.com/2011/04/ela-review/
Flash Fiction http://52stitches.blogspot.com/2010/01/picture-this.html
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