The document provides background information on the short film TYRFING, including a synopsis, the director's statement, and selected biographies of the cast and crew. The synopsis describes the cursed Norse sword TYRFING and how a valiant Viking duels a berserker raider wielding the sword to protect his beloved. The director's statement discusses using violence in storytelling and exploring the boundaries of violence through a reinterpretation of a Scandinavian myth about a two-fisted Viking tale.
7. selectedbiographies
STEPHENPOLAKIEWICZ
Director/Writer/Editor/Producer
TTYRFING isStephenPolakiewicz’sdirectorialdebut.GraduatingwithaBA
in Television Production from FloridaStateUniversity and aMSin
TelevisionProductionfromBostonUniversity,henowholdsthepositionof
editoratRedtreeProductions,cu ingbroadcastcommercialsandweb
content.Stephenhasanintrinsicpassionforstorytellingandisdeveloping
hisnextfilm,aneo-noirtitledTRUST.
ERICPROPP
PProductionDesigner/Producer/‘Orvar-Odd’
AfterearninganMFAincostumedesignatBostonUniversity,Erichas
workedwithnumeroustheatrecompanies-includingHuntingtonTheatre
Company,A.R.T.,BlueManGroup,CommonwealthShakespeare,Colorado
ShakespeareFestival,andBostonBallet.Erichasactedinvariousstage
productionsinBostonandatAdamsStateUniversity.