{"id":237,"date":"2026-03-11T16:29:23","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T15:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poy.koncept404.pl\/index.php\/talents\/elzbieta-benkowska\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T16:29:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T15:29:23","slug":"elzbieta-benkowska","status":"publish","type":"poy_talent","link":"https:\/\/poy.koncept404.pl\/elzbieta-benkowska\/","title":{"rendered":"El\u017cbieta Benkowska"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\">Film director, screenwriter and President of The Young Filmmakers&#039; Club at The Polish Filmmaker&#039;s Association. For her diploma film &quot;Olena,&quot; produced by the Gdynia Film School, she received numerous awards, including a nomination for the Palme d&rsquo;Or in the short film competition at the 66th Cannes IFF. Director of &ldquo;Zhanna&rdquo;, the first part of a feature triptych titled &ldquo;New World&rdquo; produced by Akson Studio. Currently working on her solo feature-length debut &bdquo;Orunia 4ever&rdquo;, for which she has received the&nbsp;the Script Pro Special Award. Recently short feature film &quot;The Power of Resistance&quot; directed by El\u017cbieta received a special mention from the jury The National Competition of Krakow Film Festival 2024. The film is also nominated in&nbsp; Short Film Competition of 49th Polish Film Festival in Gdynia. Laudation: &quot;For an engaging story about freedom in times when the courage to say &ldquo;NO&rdquo; came at a great price.&quot; &quot;The Power of Resistance&quot; is also nominated in Short Feature Films Competition at Mlodzi i Film Festival in Koszalin. Recently El\u017cbieta was nominated to Jan Machulski Award for direction of &quot;The Power of Resistance&quot;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">This year El\u017cbieta along with Katarzyna Warzecha received special award from the Polish Screenwriters&#039; Guild for services to the film community&nbsp; for their victorious fight for royalties from the Internet.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">In the meantime, El\u017cbieta finished PhD thesis on the folklore of Polish and Serbian football fans.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/filmpolski.pl\/fp\/index.php?osoba=11124819\">https:\/\/filmpolski.pl\/fp\/index.php?osoba=11124819<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm5659026\/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1\">https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm5659026\/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Agent:&nbsp;Agnieszka Wieczorkowska<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">M:&nbsp;+48 502 200 113 | agnieszka@pointofyou.com.pl<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Film director, screenwriter and President of The Young Filmmakers&#039; Club at The Polish Filmmaker&#039;s Association. For her diploma film &quot;Olena,&quot; produced by the Gdynia Film School, she received numerous awards, including a nomination for the Palme d&rsquo;Or in the short film competition at the 66th Cannes IFF. Director of &ldquo;Zhanna&rdquo;, the first part of a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":5817,"menu_order":2,"template":"","meta":{"_poy_source_id":134,"_poy_source_type":"portfolio","_poy_collaboration":0,"_poy_www":"https:\/\/benkowska.com","_poy_employee":"2","_poy_photo_file":"elaglowka.png","_poy_photo_path":"\/home\/pointofyou\/ftp\/uploads\/profilowe\/134\/","_poy_cover_type":1,"_poy_cover_name":"Si\u0142aOporu1ropped.jpg","_poy_photo_attachment_id":5817,"_poy_cover_attachment_id":5818,"_poy_custom_link_1":"","_poy_custom_link_2":"","_poy_custom_text_1":"","_poy_custom_text_2":"","footnotes":""},"poy_talent_category":[2],"poy_talent_tag":[],"class_list":["post-237","poy_talent","type-poy_talent","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","poy_talent_category-directors"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poy.koncept404.pl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/poy_talent\/237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poy.koncept404.pl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/poy_talent"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poy.koncept404.pl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/poy_talent"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poy.koncept404.pl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/poy_talent\/237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poy.koncept404.pl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poy.koncept404.pl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"poy_talent_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poy.koncept404.pl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/poy_talent_category?post=237"},{"taxonomy":"poy_talent_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poy.koncept404.pl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/poy_talent_tag?post=237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}