Creative collaboration of producer and scriptwriter. In conversation with Anna Kępińska and Kasper Bajon

Anna Kępińska born in Wrocław in 1975, she’s a graduate in Film and Television Production at the Krzysztof Kieślowski Faculty of Radio and Television (The University of Silesia). Between 1998 and 2008, she worked for the BESTA FILM Group. She was a production manager and a producer of many documentary films made in co-production with ZDF/ARTE and TVP, for instance the Secret Russia series, Sternflustern, Swedish Tango, the first Polish docu-soap The Infant Jesus Hospital, and The Centre of Hope. She also worked on feature series such as A School Break, The Rose Inn, and The Parish (Plebania). Since 2003, Anna Kępińska has been managing TELEMARK Sp. z o.o. as a co- owner, a board member, and a creative producer. As TELEMARK’s creative producer, she has produced critically acclaimed and widely awarded documentaries (Entangled, Over the Limit), a feature film (Interior, dir. Marek Lechki) and drama series, such as Londoners (seasons 1&2, TVP), Bez Tajemnic – In Treatment (seasons 1-3, HBO), Pakt – The Pact (seasons 1-2, HBO) and Illegals (season 1, Canal+). Currently, she’s working on High Water, a drama series based on her own idea (Netflix).

Kasper Bajon (b. 1983) – writer, poet, filmmaker. He studied at the Institute of Polish Culture (The University of Warsaw). He’s published several books in prose and poetry collections, including Fuerte, which was nominated for the Nike Literary Award (2021). A recipient of the grant from the Minister of Culture and National Heritage. His debut feature Via Carpatia (2018), co-directed with Klara Kochańska, was screened at many festivals in Poland and abroad. He’s written scripts for such TV series as The Mire (Rojst) - seasons 1&2, Open Your Eyes, High Water. A collection of his essays on chess titled The Orangutan’s Gambit will be published at the end of September.