After 1952, the school also began to train producers for film and (later) television. Lecturers on this subject included Antoni Bohdziewicz, Jerzy Mierzejewski, Jerzy Toeplitz and Stanisław Wohl, as well as the pioneering Polish producers Ludwik Hager and Zygmunt Król, then Wiktor Budzyński and Edward Zajiček. From the beginning, the teaching focused not only on elements of economics and management but also the humanities. Nowadays, the courses are management-orientated and provide immediate opportunities for students to cooperate with directors, cinematographers, television producers and actors.
The school currently has four departments: Film and Television Direction, Direction of Photography and Television Production, Film Art Organisation Production, and Acting, whose graduates include many famous, popular screen and stage actors, such as Pola Raksa, Janusz Gajos, Elżbieta Starostecka, Barbara Brylska, Mariusz Benoit, Artur Barciś, Zbigniew Zamachowski, Cezary Pazura and Wojciech Malajkat.
The school also offers full-time, two-stage screenwriting studies as a specialisation in the Direction Department. From 1983 to 2012, the Łódź Film School organised the Theatre Schools Festival, formerly known as the Polish National Review of Theatre School Graduation Works, and after 1993 as the MediaSchool International Film and Television Schools’ Festival. The school also organises the Łódzią Po Wiśle festival in Warsaw, an annual screening of works by its students.
Originally written in Polish, translated by MB, May 2018