Studio Munka Stowarzyszenie Filmowców Polskich

Three for taking/ Trójka do wzięcia
Sixteen-year-old Inga spends her time playing football and meeting her boyfriend who is a true fan of hers. Her carefree life ends when she finds out about her mother’s deadly disease. From one day to the next Inga is left with two younger siblings. She has to avoid social workers who want to place them at a care service unit. Inga wanders with the children from her boyfriend’s place to her aunt’s. Whether she likes it or not, she becomes their mother. Her dedication will be unusually rewarded.

screenplay: Piotr Borkowski, Bartek Konopka
director: Bartek Konopka
director of photography: Piotr Rosołowski
production design: Aneta Suskiewicz-Majka
editing: Rafał Listopad
production manager: Anna Wydra

cast: Klaudia Barcik, Małgorzata Hajewska-Krzysztofik, Krzysztof Czeczot, Michał Włodarczyk, Marek Kasprzyk, Violetta Arlak, Łukasz Mechanicki, Andrzej Konopka

producer: the Polish Filmmaking Association, co-producer: TVP Kultura Channel
co-producer and executive producer: Wajda Studio

Bartek Konopka is one of the most frequently awarded Polish directors. His latest film „Rabbit a la Berlin” is nominated for the Academy Award 2010 in the Documentary Short Subject category. So far the film has won awards at festivals such as Hot Docs Toronto, Hamptons, Jihlava, Krakow Film Festival, Planete Doc Review. Konopka’s short feature debut „Three For the Taking”(2006) produced by Munk Studio won 12 awards at many different festivals, i.e. Grand Prix at Brest Film Festival and Best Debut Award at Message To Man IFF in St. Petersburg. His  documentary ”The Goat Walker”(2004) was awarded by Planete Television at the Berlinale in 2004 and was then shown by all Planete chanels worldwide. It also  won a number of audience awards at various festivals.

Bartek holds a Master degree in film studies from the Jagiellonian University and has graduated from the directing department in the Kieślowski Radio and Television School in Katowice and the Andrzej Wajda Master School of Film Directing.