Pole-Dance Camp Drama Exotic Heads to Tallinn Black Nights
A new Polish feature film was shot at a real pole-dancing camp, and many of the people on screen came from that camp. Exotic, the debut feature of writer-director Sonja Orlewicz-Zakrzewska, will have its world premiere on Saturday, 14 November, in the First Feature Competition at the 30th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, The Hollywood Reporter reported.
The film was shot during an edition of Exo Stars Camp, a pole-dancing camp held in a beach town on the Polish coast. The production includes real participants and instructors from the camp, so the film mixes professional actors with people who took part in the week-long camp itself. A feature debut is a director's first full-length film, and the First Feature Competition at Tallinn is the festival's section for films of that kind.
Jasmina Polak leads the cast. Mozaika Films is the main production company behind the film, and Magdalena Sztorc and Anna Zajaczkowska are its producers. Adam Suzin served as cinematographer, the person who runs the camera and shapes how the film looks. Tomasz Kajetan Naruszewicz handled the editing, which means choosing and joining the shots into the final cut.
Tallinn Black Nights runs every November in Estonia's capital. It is one of the larger film festivals in northern Europe, and its competitions give new filmmakers a public screening in front of audiences, critics and industry guests. For a first-time director, a premiere in a competition can be the first real test of how a film plays with people who did not make it.
Pluto Film is handling sales for Exotic. A sales company takes a finished film to buyers around the world, such as cinemas, streaming services and television channels, and negotiates which territories each buyer will cover. Festivals are a common place for those conversations to start, because buyers gather there to see new work in one place.
The film's first public screening is set for the middle of this month. Anyone hoping to see it will have to wait for the festival programme to reach their country, since the film has not yet been reported to have a release date or a distributor in any territory.
