The Producers

Katarzyna Kostecka – Producer, LARMO Film

Founded in 2022 by Katarzyna Kostecka and Kinga Tasarek, the Warsaw-based company LARMO focuses on working with young, promising filmmakers, emerging talents who are looking for a creative partner in the producer. Currently, the company is producing a horror inspired by the Giallo genre titled ”Dead By Dawn" directed by Dawid Torrone, which was part of the Frontières Platform at Marche du Film 2024; the documentary "The Town That Drove Away" was selected for the dok.incubator 2024 program. They are also working on a queer drama about surrogacy shot partly in Ukraine „Milk” directed by Natalia Pietsch. In 2023, during the Millennium Docs Against Gravity Festival 2023, the premiere of the company's first project - the documentary "Filipka" by Dawid Nickel - took place.

Natalia Pietsch – Co-Director

Natalia is a graduate of Krzysztof Kieślowski Film School and the Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice. She has received awards for titles “I’ve Got Something for You Too” and “The Frog King”. Recently, she has been working as a cinematographer for “New Mistakes” by Michel Franco and is working on her feature debut “Milk” which was screened in the Work In Progress section at New Horizons.

Grzegorz Piekarski – Co-Director

Grzegorz is a graduate of Krzysztof Kieślowski Film School and Master of Science in Mechatronics at Warsaw University of Technology. He is a Scholarship holder of the „Młoda Polska” programme of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. His most recent feature film “The Slave” was screened at main Polish film festivals, including the Gdynia Festival, Warsaw Film Festival and Camerimage.