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Poland’s Ministry of Culture has dismissed Radosław Śmigulski as director of the Polish Film Institute (Pfi) in a move that has sent shockwaves across the local film industry even if it was not wholly unexpected.
Minister of Culture and Cultural Heritage Bartłomiej Sienkiewicz announced Śmigulski’s dismissal in a press conference on Thursday.
Śmigulski was among three cultural institution directors and one research institute head, appointed under the rule of Poland’s former right-wing Law and Justice Party-led government, removed from their roles in the sweep.
The dismissals come amid a wider drive by centre-right Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s four-month-old government to restore the independence of state institutions that it says was eroded under the rule of the Law and Justice Party.
Sienkiewicz previously wielded the axe at Poland’s state broadcaster last December, firing top management amid accusations they had turned it into a mouthpiece for the...
Minister of Culture and Cultural Heritage Bartłomiej Sienkiewicz announced Śmigulski’s dismissal in a press conference on Thursday.
Śmigulski was among three cultural institution directors and one research institute head, appointed under the rule of Poland’s former right-wing Law and Justice Party-led government, removed from their roles in the sweep.
The dismissals come amid a wider drive by centre-right Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s four-month-old government to restore the independence of state institutions that it says was eroded under the rule of the Law and Justice Party.
Sienkiewicz previously wielded the axe at Poland’s state broadcaster last December, firing top management amid accusations they had turned it into a mouthpiece for the...
- 4/12/2024
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
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