Jan Paweł Matuszyński (; born 23 April 1984,
Katowice
Katowice ( , , ; szl, Katowicy; german: Kattowitz, yi, קאַטעוויץ, Kattevitz) is the capital city of the Silesian Voivodeship in southern Poland and the central city of the Upper Silesian metropolitan area. It is the 11th most popul ...
) is a Polish film director and a producer of
documentary film
A documentary film or documentary is a non-fictional film, motion-picture intended to "document reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction, education or maintaining a Recorded history, historical record". Bill Nichols (film critic), Bil ...
s.
Life
In 2012, he graduated in Film and Television Directing at the
Krzysztof Kieślowski Film School
The Krzysztof Kieślowski Film School (also known as ''Katowice Film School'') is a polish film and television school established in 1978 and based in Katowice, Poland. It is a full-time film school and offers MA courses in Directing, Cinematogra ...
in Katowice. In 2014, he was awarded the Silver George Award at the
Moscow Film Festival
The Moscow International Film Festival (russian: Моско́вский междунаро́дный кинофестива́ль, translit. ''Moskóvskiy myezhdunaródniy kinofyestivál''; abbreviated as MIFF) is the film festival first h ...
for his documentary film ''Deep Love''.
In 2016, he won the Golden Lions award at the 41st
Gdynia Film Festival for ''Ostatnia rodzina'' (''
The Last Family
''The Last Family'' ( pl, Ostatnia rodzina) is a 2016 Polish biographical film directed by Jan P. Matuszyński. The film won the Golden Lions for best film at the 2016 Gdynia Film Festival. Plot
As renowned painter Zdzislaw Beksinski tapes every ...
''), a film telling the story of artist
Zdzisław Beksiński
Zdzisław Beksiński (; 24 February 192921 February 2005) was a Polish painter, photographer, and sculptor, specializing in the field of dystopian surrealism.
Beksiński made his paintings and drawings in what he called either a Baroque or a Go ...
, starring
Andrzej Seweryn (awarded the Silver Leopard for that role at the
Locarno Film Festival
The Locarno Film Festival is an annual film festival, held every August in Locarno, Switzerland. Founded in 1946, the festival screens films in various competitive and non-competitive sections, including feature-length narrative, documentary, s ...
) and
Dawid Ogrodnik
Dawid Ogrodnik (born 28 May 1986, Wągrowiec
(german: Wongrowitz) is a town in west-central Poland, from both Poznań and Bydgoszcz. Since the 18th century it has been the a seat of a powiat. Administratively it is attached to the Greater Pol ...
. In 2016, he was awarded the
Paszport Polityki Award in the film category for ''Ostatnia rodzina''.
His latest film ''
Żeby nie było śladów'' (''Leave No Traces'') entered the main competition at the
78th Venice International Film Festival.
Filmography
*''Afterparty'', etude, 2009
*''
Amisze znad Wisły'', documentary, 2010
*''Niebo'', documentary, 2011
*''Offline'', short film, 2012
*''Deep Love'', documentary, 2013
*''
Kolaudacja'', documentary, 2014
*''Ostatnia rodzina'' (''The Last Family''), 2016
*''
Król'' (''The King''), TV series, 2020
*''
Żeby nie było śladów'' (''Leave No Traces''), 2021
See also
*
Polish cinema
The history of cinema in Poland is almost as long as the history of cinematography, and it has universally recognized achievements, even though Polish films tend to be less commercially available than films from several other European nations.
Af ...
References
{{DEFAULTSORT:Matuszynski, Jan Pawel
1984 births
Living people
Polish film directors
Krzysztof Kieślowski Film School alumni
People from Katowice