Mateusz Pacewicz (born 21 June 1992, Warsaw) is a Polish award-winning screenwriter and film director.

Life and career

He is a graduate of the Inter-area Individual Humanistic and Social Studies (MISH) of the University of Warsaw. In 2017, he wrote the script and directed ''Heat'' (in collaboration with

Agata Trzebuchowska Agata Trzebuchowska (; born 12 April 1992) is a Polish screenwriter and film director. She debuted in the film industry playing the title role in the 2013 film '' Ida'' for which she was nominated for many festival and industry awards. She works a ...

), a short film nominated for The Short Film Grand Jury Prize at

Sundance Film Festival The Sundance Film Festival (formerly Utah/US Film Festival, then US Film and Video Festival) is an annual film festival organized by the Sundance Institute. It is the largest independent film festival in the United States, with more than 46,66 ...

. In 2019, he received the Best Screenplay Award for

Jan Komasa Jan Tadeusz Komasa (born October 28, 1981) is a Polish film director, screenwriter, and producer best known for directing '' Suicide Room'' (2011), '' Warsaw 44'' (2014), and ''Corpus Christi'' (2019), which was nominated for the Best Internatio ...

's Academy Award-nominated film '' Corpus Christi'' at the 44th Gdynia Film Festival. He also won two

Polish Film Awards 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 ...

for Best Screenplay as well as the Discovery of the Year Award for ''Corpus Christi''. In 2020, he was also nominated for the Paszport Polityki Award in the film category. In 2020, he wrote the screenplay to another film directed by Komasa ''

The Hater ''The Hater'' ( pl, Sala samobójców. Hejter) is a 2020 Polish social thriller film directed by Jan Komasa and written by Mateusz Pacewicz. The plot centres around an expelled university student from Warsaw who attempts to steer the internet, ...

'', a

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of the 2011 drama film ''

Suicide Room ''Suicide Room'' ( pl, Sala Samobójców) is a 2011 Polish drama thriller film written and directed by Jan Komasa, and starring Jakub Gierszał as a popular high school student whose life quickly deteriorates into ostracisation and depression. T ...

.''

Personal life

He was born on 21 June 1992 in Warsaw to father Piotr Pacewicz and mother Alicja. When asked about his inspirations in an interview, he named the '' New Testament'',

Hermann Broch Hermann Broch (; 1 November 1886 – 30 May 1951) was an Austrian writer, best known for two major works of modernist fiction: '' The Sleepwalkers'' (''Die Schlafwandler,'' 1930–32) and ''The Death of Virgil'' (''Der Tod des Vergil,'' 1945). ...

's ''The Tempter'',

René Girard René Noël Théophile Girard (; ; 25 December 1923 – 4 November 2015) was a French polymath, historian, literary critic, and philosopher of social science whose work belongs to the tradition of philosophical anthropology. Girard was the aut ...

's ''The Scapegoat'' and Carlo Ginzburg's ''

The Cheese and the Worms ''The Cheese and the Worms'' ( it, Il formaggio e i vermi) is a scholarly work by the Italian historian Carlo Ginzburg, published in 1976. The book is a notable example of cultural history, the history of mentalities and microhistory. It is "pr ...

'' as the books which influenced his work.

Filmography

*''Heat'', 2017 (co-directed with Agata Trzebuchowska) *'' Corpus Christi'', 2019 (screenplay) *''

'', 2020 (screenplay)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Pacewicz, Mateusz 1992 births Living people Polish screenwriters Film people from Warsaw

Life and career

Personal life

Filmography

See also

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