{"id":18811,"date":"2026-07-02T13:41:40","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T11:41:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/literackisopot.pl\/?post_type=people&#038;p=18811"},"modified":"2026-07-02T13:47:59","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T11:47:59","slug":"zero-pilnik","status":"publish","type":"people","link":"https:\/\/literackisopot.pl\/en\/people\/zero-pilnik\/","title":{"rendered":"Zero Pilnik"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Zero Pilnik<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is an actor and writer dividing their time between S\u00e3o Paulo and Berlin. They have performed on the stages of Ballhaus Ost, Volksb\u00fchne, and Maxim Gorki, and appeared in films and television series including <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Col\u00f4nia<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Canal Brasil, 2026), <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Trouble Out There<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (2024), and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Last Call Blue<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (2024), winner of the Next Generation Short Tiger Award. They write for both theatre and film. Their credits include the short films <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I Mind a Little Bit<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (2025) and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Matter<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(2022), as well as the musical <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Gasoline Queen<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (2022). During a literary residency at Goyki 3 Art Inkubator in 2021, they wrote the pilot for <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Brutes<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, a queer fantasy western. The project was nominated for an award at the 2023 Seriencamp Conference. That same year, they were a finalist at the Berlin TV Series Festival, where they presented <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Silver Future<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, a dramedy inspired by their experiences in Berlin\u2019s underground drag scene. In 2025, they returned to Seriencamp to present the romantic comedy series <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Erika<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. After graduating from CalArts, Zero participated in the Serial Eyes and Torino Film Lab programmes. They have received fellowships from the Berlin Senate, Akademie der K\u00fcnste, and LABA Berlin, and were awarded the 2017 Tim Disney Prize. They are currently writing the libretto for a new opera, which will premiere in M\u00fcnster in 2027 with support from the Fonds Experimentelles Musiktheater.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>pic. from the guests&#8217;s archive<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":18810,"template":"","class_list":["post-18811","people","type-people","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Zero Pilnik | Literacki Sopot<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Zero Pilnik - guests of the 15th edition of the Sopot by The Book Festival (Literacki Sopot).\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/literackisopot.pl\/en\/people\/zero-pilnik\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Zero Pilnik | Literacki Sopot\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Zero Pilnik - 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