Gabrielle Pfeiffer
director • writer • producer
Prizes, Screenings and Critical Acclaim
Winner, President’s Award, North Carolina Film Awards
Winner, Birmingham Film Festival, Best Costumes
Nominated, Birmingham Film Festival, Best Short Film
Nominated, Best Short Film, Cairo International Film Festival
Berlin Short Film Festival
Short and to the Point Film Festival
Global India International Film Festival
Chhatrapati Shivaji International Film Festival
Winner, Golden Gate Award, San Francisco International Film Festival
European Media Arts Festival, Osnabrück
Global Voices International Documentary Film Festival, Harvard University
Port Townsend Film Festival
United Nations Association Film Festival
Goethe Institut, Washington, D.C.
Maida Withers Dance Construction Company “Thresholds Crossed” dance performance choreographed to excerpts from the film, Washington, D.C.
“A Poet on the Frontline: The Reportage of Ryszard Kapuscinski”
Festival de Granada – Cines del Sur, Granada
Festival du Cinema de Bruxelles
Cracow Film Festival
Kinoglaz/Movie Eye Film Festival, Tver (Russia)
The Carnegie Mellon International Film Festival, Pittsburgh
Internationales Literaturfestival Berlin
PEN America/ Tribute to Ryszard Kapuscinski with Salman Rushdie, New York
Frontline Club, London
English PEN’s Writers in Translation, Kapuscinski, Liverpool, UK
Ryszard Kapuscinski: Encounters, Gdansk
Glosna Sanotnosc, Poznan
Cafe Cinema, Montreal
Helena Modjeska Art and Culture Club, Los Angeles
Albanian Media Institute/Frontline Club, Tirana, Albania
Embassy of the Republic of Poland, Ottawa, Canada
Polen Grenzenlos NRW, Bielefeld, Germany
Grenzgänge – Die Reportagen Ryszard Kapuscinskis, Saarbrücken
Ryszard Kapuscinski: Fotografien aus Afrika, Düsseldorf
European Commission, Brussels, Belgium
The Polish Club Inc. of San Francisco
“It Just Takes One”
Winner, CINE Golden Eagle
(shared with project team)
“FACING THE DEAD” Reviews
“A suspenseful journey...an atmosphere reminiscent of Tarkovsky’s ‘The Mirror’”
- Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
“Gabrielle Pfeiffer’s documentary was deeply moving ... More of this type of illumination!”
- Nordwest Zeitung
“... Not only a view into the past but, again and again, connections to today’s Russia...
Not only a documentation, but a memorial to the murdered.”
- Frankfurter Rundschau
“History can be this exciting!... Impressive images are the strength of this documentary.”
- RTV Online
“A poignant plunge into the kingdom of shadows...The personal accounts are...devastating.”
- Le Nouvel Observateur
“Thrilling.”
- Neue Osnabruecker Zeitung
“Surprising...the stories told contrast the past and present, nostalgia with daily realities.”
- Le Soir
“A POET ON THE FRONTLINE: THE REPORTAGE OF RYSZARD KAPUSCINSKI”
Reviews
“This film is a must-see for fans of his books, but also for anyone looking for a bit of inspiration.”
- Montreal Mirror
“The film about Richard K. is wonderful and wonderfully told, edited, saying yes between every cut... Thank you and everybody for this film, which is like the wallet of a traveler – without money but with notes from everybody.”
- John Berger
“...a terrific ... film... A good reason to see this film is as a primer to Kapuscinski’s writing. The best reason is to see what you can take away from it... Great writer. Fascinating man. Powerful film.”
- Jesse Kornbluth
“A Poet on the Frontline” listed on Damien Love’s pick of the week’s TV (BBC broadcast)
- The Herald Scotland
“This film is a must see for anyone who has any interest in understanding today's world...(it is) fluid, thoughtful and captures the essence of Kapuscinski.”
- Alexandra Pratt
Gabrielle Pfeiffer - ACADEMIC DISTINCTIONS
Cheekie Award, Drew University Dramatic Arts Prize
First Prize, Drew University Photography Competition
Captain and Most-Valuable-Player Award, Equestrian Team, Drew University
Omicron Delta Epsilon, Honor Society in Economics
“A Poet on the Frontline: The Reportage of Ryszard Kapuscinski”
Harvard University
University of Cambridge
Columbia University
Stanford University
University of Chicago
University of Minnesota
University of Maryland
University of California
Loyola University
Boston College
Université de Montréal
University of Illinois
University of Western Ontario
Wake Forest University
University of Toronto
University of Colorado
Johns Hopkins University
New York University
Georgetown University
University of Pennsylvania
University of Michigan
Ithaca College
Duke University
Bibliothèque Nationale de Luxembourg
Bridgewater State University
Université du Québec à Montréal
University of Washington
Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Northwestern University
University of British Columbia
Academic Acquisitions:
National Endowment for the Humanities -
recipient full-funding