Katarzyna "Kasia" Adamik (born 28 December 1972) is a Polish director and

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. She has directed TV series including ''

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'', ''

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'' and '' Absentia.'' Her debut film feature as director, ''

Bark! ''Bark!'' is a 2002 film written by Heather Morgan, directed by Katarzyna Adamik (the daughter of director Agnieszka Holland) and starring Morgan, Lee Tergesen, and Lisa Kudrow. The film debuted at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival, where it w ...

'', was in competition at Sundance Film Festival. Adamik and Olga Chajdas shared the award for Best TV Show at the

Polish Film Award Polish Film Award, or Eagle ( pl, Polska Nagroda Filmowa, „Orzeł”) is a film awards ceremony given annually since 1999, with the first event held on 21 June, by the National Chamber of Audiovisual Producers (KIPA). Since 2003 they are given ...

s for directing drama ''The Pack''. A ''Hollywood Reporter'' article listed her among "four of the country's most prominent directors", naming her alongside the fellow Polish directors she worked on for conspiracy thriller series ''1983'', which was Netflix's first Polish original series.

Personal life

Adamik was born in Warsaw, the daughter of Polish film director

Agnieszka Holland Agnieszka Holland (born 28 November 1948) is a Poles, Polish film and television director and screenwriter, best known for her political contributions to Polish cinema. She began her career as assistant to directors Krzysztof Zanussi and Andrzej ...

and Slovak opera director Laco Adamík. Her aunt is film director

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. She graduated in

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from the Academy of Fine Arts in

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. She

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as a

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in 2012.

Career

Adamik debuted in the film industry in 1993. She has worked as a storyboard artist on an array of movies, including '' In Darkness'', '' Copying Beethoven'', ''

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'', ''

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'', '' Trapped'', ''

Julie Walking Home ''Julie Walking Home'' is a 2002 drama film directed by Agnieszka Holland. It stars Miranda Otto and William Fichtner. It won an award at the 2003 Method Fest. Plot Julie finds her husband Henry in bed with another woman when she returns home ear ...

'', ''Angel of Death'', '' Hearts in Atlantis'', '' Angel Eyes'', ''

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'', '' Battlefield Earth'', ''Na koniec swiata'', ''

The Third Miracle ''The Third Miracle'' is a 1999 drama film directed by Agnieszka Holland and starring Ed Harris and Anne Heche. The film was shot in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Plot In Bystrica, Slovakia in 1944, near the end of World War II, an Allied bombing ra ...

'', ''

The Wood ''The Wood'' is a 1999 American coming-of-age comedy drama film directed by Rick Famuyiwa and starring Omar Epps, Richard T. Jones and Taye Diggs. It was written by Famuyiwa and Todd Boyd. Plot Roland is getting married and is currently missing. ...

'', ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'', '' Washington Square'', and ''

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''. ''1983'', a Polish-language TV series directed by Adamik and

, debuted on Netflix in 2018 as the streaming service's first Polish-language original production.

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