Some say the holiday season begins when Kevin appears on TV and we hear Mariah Carey or Wham's "Last Christmas" on the radio. Polish viewers may have a different opinion. For the past few years, the season for baubles and Christmas trees begins when the next part of one of Poles' favorite holiday comedies, Letters to Santa (Listy do M. Pozegnania i powroty) hits theaters.
As in previous parts, we follow the adventures of the characters during the day of Christmas Eve. The events happen simultaneously, in several different parts of the city. Some of the scenes were filmed at TVN XR Studio, on our LED screen.
Scenes filmed in the shooting hall perfectly imitate real locations. Karina and Szczepan's apartment, where outside the window we see a modern housing development and falling snow, was entirely built inside a shooting hall in Sekocin, near Warsaw. Similarly, the scenes aboard the plane where Wojciech meets Ewa. The passenger cabin was recreated with elements such as authentic airplane seats. In both cases, the view outside the windows was generated digitally and projected on an LED screen.
Some of the driving scenes were also transferred into the XR Studio and shot on LED screens. You can shoot a movie regardless of the season, day or weather conditions. It is more comfortable for the actors and the film crew. And it also relieves the production budget, does not require closing streets, organizing the security of a mobile film set and acquiring many permits.
The director of the latest part of "Letters to Santa" is Lukasz Jaworski, the cinematographer is Marian Prokop, and the script was written by Marcin Baczynski and Mariusz Kuczewski. The film's producer is TVN Warner Bros. Discovery.