VERTIGO is an independent production and film service company founded by Rafael Lewandowski in 2007 and based in Warsaw. His team is flexible, creative and multilingual. It offers the possibility of cooperation and funding assistance in Poland from location scouting, casting, budgeting and production planning. Our goal is to develop co-production projects between France and Poland.
Coproductions:
2010
THE MOLE
by Rafael Lewandowski
(fiction feature film)
With Metro Films, KUIV Productions, Non Stop Film Service, Le Fresnoy and the Regional Film Fund "Silesia Film". Cofinanced by the Polish Film Institute (PISF) and the City of Bielsko Biala.
Released in Poland on 5 August 2011 (distribution: Kino Swiat).
Released in France on 12 September 2012 (distribution: Mondivina).
International distribution: Wide Management (label Eye On Films, sales in about 15 countries).
2013
MARC MINKOWSKI IS DIRECTING THE SINFONIA WARSZAWA
by Rafael Lewandowski & Jean-Pierre Loisil
(TV recording of a symphony concert)
With Fido Films, for Mezzo.
MINKOWSKI | SAGA
by Rafael Lewandowski
(feature-length documentary)
With Fido Film.
Cofinanced by the Polish Film Institute (PISF) and the Mazovia Warsaw Film Commision, the Zygmunt Zaleski Foundation, the Ministry of Culture of Poland.
International distribution: New Morning Films
2017
by Rafael Lewandowski
(feature-length documentary)
With Zygmunt Zaleski Stichting.
Released in Poland on September 2017 (distribution : Tumult, Camerimage).
2020
by Joanny Grudzinskiej
(feature-length documentary)
With Les Films du Bilboquet (France).
Cofinanced by the Polish Film Institute (PISF) and the Mazovia Warsaw Film Commision in Poland, the CNC, Procirep and Pictanovo in France.
by Agnes Pizzini & Julien Johan
(feature-length documentary)
With Elephant Adventures (France), Kwassa Films (Belgium).
Cofinanced by the Polish Film Institute (PISF) and Canal + in Poland, the CNC, Procirep and France Television in France.
Executive Production:
2013
LUBLIN'S CULTURAL CENTER
(promotional film)
2016
Zygmunt Zaleski Stichting, Amsterdam
(production of 25 interviews in Poland, Switzerland, France and the USA)
2018
Fundacja im. Zbigniewa Herberta
(production of 20 interviews in Poland, Germany, England, Italy, France and the USA)
2019
LEGACY
by Yann Athus Bertrand.
For Hope Production and M6.
(production of documentary sequences in Poland).
Distribution:
by Rafael Lewandowski
Yenta Production, La Femis and Cités Television
(feature-length documentary, 2000)
by Rafael Lewandowski
(feature-length documentary, 2013)
MARC MINKOWSKI IS DIRECTING THE SINFONIA WARSZAWA
by Rafael Lewandowski & Jean-Pierre Loisil
(TV recording of a symphony concert, 2013).
VERTIGO
Cecylii Śniegockiej 10/15
00-430 Warsaw
PL 113 244 30 83
