Andrzej Fidyk left Telewizja Polska in February 2016 by mutual consent. At that time, he was responsible for managing the editorial staff of the documentary on TVP Channel One. According to the website virtualmedia.pl, he now returns to his “home” and will again lead the documentary team, this time in the program office of the public broadcaster. More information about public media can be found on the home page.
Associated with TVP since 1980. His “Defilada” is still a model documentary
Fidyk joined TVP in 1980 as part of a competition for production manager. Two years later he worked in the Reportage and Documentary Editorial Office, and in 1996 he took over the role of head of the Documentary Film Editorial Office of Program 1 TVP. He became famous for programs such as: “Time for a Documentary” awarded three times with Wiktor and “Keep Your Eyes Wide Open”. His film “Defilade”, about Kim Il-sung’s regime in North Korea, is still impressive to this day. The documentary filmmaker, despite the still active Polish censorship at that time, produced an extremely insightful work that put a finger into the totalitarianism prevailing in the Far Eastern country.
In addition to numerous film festival awards, Fidyk is also a member of the European Film Academy. He also produced foreign productions, such as “The Devil in Moscow” for the BBC. Just before he left TVP 8 years ago, he was responsible for the series of documentaries “Watch with Andrzej Fidyk” on Jedynka.
Behind the scenes of the departure. His successor did not bite his tongue
What are the reasons behind Andrzej Fidyk’s departure from public television in February 2016? A month before, Jan Pawlicki was appointed director of TVP1, which the former considered a “slap in the face”. Interestingly, Pawlicki himself said goodbye to Telewizja Polska just a few years later, without pinching his tongue about working with Jacek Kurski. “I came there with the hope of realizing my plans and intentions. But it turned out – which I did not expect at all – that both me and other directors were to be just fig leaves, legitimizing what Kurski and his adjutant Stanisław Bortkiewicz were doing behind our backs.” – he told the website virtualmedia.pl.
He also left no stone unturned on the employees who decided to stay there despite the atmosphere of terror and the creation of crude propaganda. “Basically, only those who managed to break their moral spines and were ready to obediently follow all orders remained there,” he added later in the interview.
Source: Gazeta
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