Magdalena Piekorz (born 2 October 1974,
Sosnowiec
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) is a
Polish
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*Polish brothers (Mark Polish and Michael Polish, born 1970), American twin screenwr ...
film director, screenwriter as well as film and theatre actress.
Life and career
She graduated from the
Krzysztof Kieślowski Film School of the University of Silesia in Katowice where she studied
film directing
A film director controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfilment of that vision. The director has a key role in choosing the cast members, p ...
. Initially, she mostly directed
documentary film
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s. In 1997, she made her film debut when she directed the documentary ''The Girls From Szymanów'' for which she received a prize at the Polish Festival of Documentary and Short Films. Her 1998 film, ''Franciscan Spontan'', dealt with religious themes and the music for the film was written by
Michał Lorenc
Michał Lorenc (born 5 October 1955 in Warsaw) is a Polish film score composer, best known for his work on films '' Little Rose'' (2010), '' Bastard'' (1997), ''Blood and Wine'' (1996) and ''300 Miles to Heaven'' (1989). He is currently considered ...
. Her 2001 film, ''To Find, To See, To Bury'' tells the story of the
Srebrenica massacre
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. In 2002, she directed a documentary
TV series
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''Chicago'' portraying the life of
Polish community in the US state of
Illinois
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.
In 2004, she made her feature film debut when she directed ''Pręgi'' ("Welts") tackling the issue of
domestic violence
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and based on the prose of
Nike Award
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-winning author
Wojciech Kuczok. The film was critically acclaimed and won the Golden Lions Award at the 29th
Gdynia Film Festival
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It has taken place every year sinc ...
. It was also selected as the Polish entry for the
Best Foreign Language Film
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Best Actor/Best Actress
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at the
77th Academy Awards
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.
Since 2018, she has served as the artistic director at the Adam Mickiewicz Theatre in
Częstochowa
Częstochowa ( , ; german: Tschenstochau, Czenstochau; la, Czanstochova) is a city in southern Poland on the Warta River with 214,342 inhabitants, making it the thirteenth-largest city in Poland. It is situated in the Silesian Voivodeship (admin ...
.
Filmography
*Documentary films:
**''Dziewczyny z Szymanowa'' (1997)
**''Franciszkański spontan'' (1998)
**''Przybysze'' (1999)
**''Labirynt'' (2001)
**''Znaleźć, zobaczyć, pochować'' (2001)
**''Chicago'' (2002, documentary series)
*Feature films:
**''Pręgi'' (2004)
**''Senność'' (2008)
**''Zbliżenia'' (2014)
See also
*
Cinema of Poland
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 ...
*
List of Poles
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Science
Physics
* Czesław Białobrzeski
* Andrzej Buras
* Georges Charpak ...
References
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Living people
1974 births
Polish women film directors
People from Sosnowiec
Polish women screenwriters