Hollywood PL – Beyond the Dream: Personal Roads to the Silver Screen hardcover book

Hollywood PL – Beyond the Dream: Personal Roads to the Silver Screen hardcover book

Signing by authors Agnieszka  Niezgoda and Jacek Laskus



Hollywood PL:  Beyond the Dream: Personal Roads to the Silver Screen Today at OK

By Maureen McCabe

 Los Angeles(Hollywood Today)2/22/14/–Recommended: a beautiful coffee table hardcover  book  Hollywood PL - Beyond the Dream: Personal Roads to the Silver Screen.  Book signing by authors Agnieszka  Niezgoda and Jacek Laskus, ASC – today, Saturday, February 22 from 4-6 p.m. at the OK Book Store located at  8303 west 3rd St., Los Angeles.  This new book includes 23 biographies of acclaimed Polish-born filmmakers who left their native land to pursue their dreams in Hollywood and achieved remarkable success. Winners of Academy Awards, Golden Globes and Emmy’s, the incredibly talented group includes directors Agnieszka Holland http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnieszka_Holland (In Darkness), Roman Polanski http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Polanski (Chinatown), and Zbig Rybczynski (Tango) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zbig_Rybczynski ; actress Beata Pozniak ( JFK , Young Indiana Jones, Mad About You)  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beata_Poźniak   and composers Jan A.P. Kaczmarek (Finding Neverland), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Kaczmarek; directors of photography Adam Holender (Midnight Cowboy) http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0390435/, Sławomir Idziak (Black Hawk Dawn) http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0390435/, Dariusz Wolski (Pirates of the Caribbean); production and costume designers  Allan Starski (Schindler’s List),  Anna B. Sheppard (Inglourious Bastards) and many more. The book took four years and spanned two continents in its efforts to capture the stellar group’s often heart-wrenching tales of struggling and reaching for their dreams.  Along with their moving testimonies, the featured subjects are captured in stunning painterly photographs, making the book as gorgeous as it is inspiring.