ACTOR VERSUS ALGORITHM
Saturday, Aug 29, 14:30-15:00, ACADEMY, Teatr Szóste Piętro · Palace of Culture and Science. Who can really act an emotion?
In the programme
ACTOR VERSUS ALGORITHM
Who can really act an emotion?
Who's on stage
Paweł Deląg
Actor · Director · Poland
One of Poland's most recognizable screen actors, working since the early 1990s. He made his debut in Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List and had his breakthrough as Marcus Vinicius in Quo Vadis, alongside 1990s hits such as Młode wilki, Kiler and Chłopaki nie płaczą. Beyond Poland he has appeared in more than sixty productions across Russia, Ukraine and Belarus, including the epic Viking. He also writes, directs and produces, among them the short Pani Basia, which opened the BNP Paribas Green Film Festival in Kraków, and in 2024 was named Actor of the Year.
At Warsaw Glitch 2026
- ACTOR VERSUS ALGORITHM · Saturday, Aug 29 · 14:30-15:00 · ACADEMY
Andrzej Nejman
Actor · Director · Poland
Film, theatre and television actor and director, born in 1974, a graduate of the Warsaw Academy of Dramatic Art. On screen most recently as Władysław in 1670 and Robert in Teściowie, with films including Poranek kojota, Szamanka and Żeby nie było śladów. For twenty-five years he was tied to the Kwadrat theatre in Warsaw, latterly as its director, and today he runs Nejman Studio and his own company, Nejman Komedie.
At Warsaw Glitch 2026
- ACTOR VERSUS ALGORITHM · Saturday, Aug 29 · 14:30-15:00 · ACADEMY
Joanna Koc
Actor · Presenter · Poland
An actress and a doctor of arts, on the permanent company of the Stefan Jaracz Theatre in Lodz and previously of the Lubuski Theatre in Zielona Gora, where she still appears as a guest. A graduate of the acting faculty of the Lodz Film School, she has played over twenty stage roles, from Kitty in Anna Karenina to Teresa Salieri in Amadeus, and taken the critics' award for best actress three times. She teaches at the Lodz Film School and at the Music Academy there, and runs Shakespeare and management workshops for managers.
At Warsaw Glitch 2026
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Izabela Polec
Talent Agent · Poland
An artistic agent and an expert on the film and advertising industry with more than twenty years behind her. For fifteen of them she has represented creators on the Polish market and abroad. She runs Casting-Studio, the Warsaw agency on Chelmska whose roster in the Filmmakers Europe database runs to two hundred and seventy actors. On the panel she sits on the side of the table that casts people and signs their contracts, not the side that stands in front of the camera.
At Warsaw Glitch 2026
- ACTOR VERSUS ALGORITHM · Saturday, Aug 29 · 14:30-15:00 · ACADEMY
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