Jarosław "Jarek" Kupść (born December 26, 1966) is a Polish-American

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and screen writer.

Early life and education

He started shooting films at the age of sixteen in his native

Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It is divided into 16 administrative provinces called voivodeships, covering an area of . Poland has a population of over 38 million and is the fifth-most populous ...

. In 1985, he left Poland for

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, where he studied Byzantine icon painting and worked as a freelance cartoonist. He emigrated to the

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in 1987 and became a naturalized citizen in 1992. He graduated from

San Francisco State University San Francisco State University (commonly referred to as San Francisco State, SF State and SFSU) is a public research university in San Francisco. As part of the 23-campus California State University system, the university offers 118 different b ...

in 1995 with a degree in writing/directing, while carrying on a career as a graphic artist. In 1998, Kupść wrote and illustrated a film history book, ''The History of Cinema for Beginners''.

Film career

Kupść made his directorial debut with ''Recoil'' which was awarded Best Feature Film at Woodstock Film Festival in 2001. He followed with a road movie in 2006 titled ''Slumberland'' which won the Special Jury Prize at the Gdynia Film Festival His 2008 feature, ''The Reflecting Pool'', was one of the first narrative films dealing with the investigation of the September 11th attacks, After returning to Poland in 2010, he wrote and directed ''Kliny (Wedges)'' and began his association with the Warsaw Film School in Warsaw, Poland. His last film to date is the award-winning ''Quintuplets'', shot on a mobile phone. Jarek Kupść' film and art essays have been published by Little White Lies and other magazines.

Selected filmography

References

External links

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Official website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Kupsc, Jarek 1966 births Living people Film directors from California Polish film directors American screenwriters San Francisco State University alumni