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Crossing cultures

I Mn understand et profile of a finmons film dirutor.

1 Look at the photo. What do you think the man's job is?

Looking in from the outside

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Read the beginning of each paragraph and answer the questions.

1    What is the man’s name?

2    Where was he born?

3    When did he move to Britain?

4    Where does he live now?

3 Match the highlighted words in the text with the definitions below.

1    the people who see a film

2    the action or process of making a film

3    a prize

4    a large, fiat surface that displays a film

5    a film that is about 75 minutes or longer

6    people who direct the making of films

7    a film that tells a fictional story

8    all the companies and studios that make films

9    films that give true Information

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Unit 4* In thespotlight

One of the hottest new directorsofJ British cinema isn't from Britain at all. His name is Paweł Pawlika and he was born in Poland. His first fuli-s length film in 2000, called Last Resort. won the award for 'Most Promising Newcomer' in the British film industry. One of his latest films My Summer of Love, about two British teenagers, won o an award for Best British Film at the BAFTA Awards in 2005 (BAFTA stands for 'British Academy of Film and Television Arts'). He is becoming famous for telling a good story, but what is his s own story?

Paweł Pawlikowski was born in Warsaw in 1957. His interest in films, and in British films in particular, began quite early. His mother taught English at Warsaw University, and she had a free pass to the British Council-Pawlikowski went there regularly and saw lots of Bntish films - although he didn't speak English at the time! He says, 'I couldn't understand anything in the films, but the images on the screen stayed with me.' His favourite Bntis films are still the films he saw when he was a child.

25 When he was a teenager. he moved to Britain with his family and studied languages, literaturę and philosophy at unhrersity in London. He started out in the film industl by directing documentaries for the BBC, and won severa awards for them, before he gradually moved into drama 30 People think that because he was not born in Britain, he sees Britain from a different viewpoint. He says, 'Once left Poland in my teens, I was looking at things from the outside. For a while I didn't understand what people were saying.' That experience of being an outsider has is stayed with him. For example, his film Last Resort is about the experiences of a Russian woman who comes with her son to live in Britain.

Pawlikowski now lives in Oxford and works at Oxford Brookes Umuersity, where he is doing research into ao making in Britain today, and helping students who doing a degree in Film Studies. But he will contmue make his own films because, he says. 'Every good is a bit like a dream ... I want to create a little world that will stay with the audience

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