# Duplass Brothers Board Jan Naszewski’s Oscar-Qualifying Short ‘Exam’ As Executive Producers

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/duplass-brothers-board-jan-naszewskis-oscar-qualifying-short-exam-as-executive-producers/
- Published: 2026-11-05T20:08:00+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-05T20:24:28+00:00
- Original publisher: Deadline
- Original article: https://deadline.com/2026/11/duplass-brothers-jan-naszewski-oscar-short-exam-ep-1237214738/
- Topics: Business, Companies, Entertainment, Europe, Film, World

## Key points

- Duplass Brothers join Polish short Exam as executive producers.
- The comedy centres on a couple’s chaotic therapy exam.
- The film has won audience awards and is screening at festivals.

## Summary

Mark Duplass, Mel Eslyn and Jay Duplass have joined Jan Naszewski’s Polish short comedy Exam as executive producers through Duplass Brothers Productions. Their involvement connects the film with a prominent independent production company and signals a potential wider collaboration with Naszewski and New Europe.

Co-written by Naszewski and comedian Agnieszka Matan, the film stars Matan with Sebastian Stankiewicz, Piotr Polak and Sebastian Łach. It follows a couple asked to pose as a model pair during their therapist’s board exam, where an international committee, a poor interpreter and hidden frustrations disrupt the session. Exam has screened at festivals including Encounters, Chicago and Flickerfest, and won audience awards in Adelaide and at Italy’s Sedicicorto festival.

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