In the programme
Panel: music in film and copyright
- The composer of an Oscar-nominated short, a producer, a singer and a copyright lawyer
- Who gets paid when the model writes the theme
- What a music contract has to say in 2026
Who's on stage
Jan Ignacy Królikowski
Composer · Music Producer · Poland
Warsaw-based film composer who has written for screen and games for around two decades. He composed the score for Tadeusz Łysiak's short The Dress (Sukienka), nominated for the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film in 2022, and released it as an original soundtrack. His other work includes music for the shorts Elephant (Słoń), Być kimś and Innego końca nie będzie, and the full nineteen-track soundtrack for the horror video game Unholy. He works as composer, lyricist and instrumentalist, and decided as a teenager to write music for film.
Andre Danek
Music Producer · Composer · Poland
Music producer, composer and songwriter, a vocal graduate of the City University of New York with years of Broadway theatre behind him. During the pandemic he founded a US label representing young performers; one of its artists now plays the lead in the Broadway musical MJ. He has composed for advertising and theatre, wrote the music for Friends a New Musical, and works with Kuba Badach, Andrzej Piaseczny and Nick Sinckler. He also led a choir of young people from New York correctional facilities, teaching confidence through music.
Wojciech "Lozo" Lozowski
Singer · Actor · Poland
A singer, songwriter, television host and actor, born in 1984 in Olsztyn. From 2004 to 2017 he fronted Afromental, the band he started with Tomasz "Tomson" Lach, recording four albums with them: The Breakthru, Playing with Pop, The B.O.M.B. and Mental House. In 2024 he came back to music as Wozz Lozowski with the singles Water and Fire, So Radical and Speeding. He knows television from the inside: he became an MTV presenter in 2005, sat on the jury of Must Be the Music from 2011 to 2013 and on the fourth season of Lego Masters, took part in Azja Express, and since March 2025 he has been a music reporter for Dzień dobry TVN. He started out in a children's theatre group and a cabaret, trained hip-hop at the Academy of Theatre and Dance, and studied at the Krzysztof Komeda school of popular music in Warsaw. He is a member of the ZPAV Phonographic Academy and streams on Twitch as The Mighty Wozz.
Mariusz Busilo
Lawyer · Media Law · Poland
Lawyer specialising in telecommunications, IT, media and copyright law, and an expert of the Polish Chamber of Information Technology and Telecommunications. He worked at the National Broadcasting Council and then at the Office of Electronic Communications, where he handled telecom legislation and, from 2006 to 2012, served as deputy director of the spectrum management department, running the legal side of how radio frequencies are allocated. He has worked in European Commission, CEPT and ITU groups, and today advises telecom, media and technology companies.
Michal Kornacki
CEO · Founder · Poland
Co-founder and CEO of Closer Music, which licenses music and sound effects to creators, brands and agencies, with studios in Poland and in Las Vegas. Its catalogue goes into television commercials, branded content, films and social media, and is curated by the Grammy-winning producer Luca Pretolesi. The search runs on AI, alongside a tool that matches music to video. He is an EY Entrepreneur of the Year innovation award winner. From 1994 to 1999 he was a sales manager for Mars Inc. in central Poland, and he is a certified track and field coach.
