Peter Jan Fudakowski (1954) is a London-based film producer, writer and director. Fudakowski, born in London to Polish emigrants, didn’t go to film school but he studied Economics at

Magdalene College, Cambridge Magdalene College ( ) is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. The college was founded in 1428 as a Benedictine hostel, in time coming to be known as Buckingham College, before being refounded in 1542 as the College of St Mary ...

(where he was President of the

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in Michaelmas Term 1976). He graduated with a master's degree and later read for an MBA at the business school

INSEAD INSEAD, a contraction of "Institut Européen d'Administration des Affaires" () is a non-profit business school that maintains campuses in Europe ( Fontainebleau, France), Asia (Singapore), the Middle East (Abu Dhabi, UAE), and North America (San ...

, France. In 1979 he joined the First National Bank of Chicago, where he worked in the film financing department. In 1982 Fudakowski left to set up his own production company with his wife, Henrietta Williams, as script editor and head of development. Their company, Premiere Productions Ltd, marked its 20th year in the film business with the production of ''

Tsotsi ''Tsotsi'' is a 2005 crime drama film written and directed by Gavin Hood and produced by Peter Fudakowski. It is an adaptation of the novel ''Tsotsi'' by Athol Fugard and is a South African/UK co-production. Set in the Alexandra slum in Johan ...

'', which won an Oscar for Best Foreign Film in 2006. Following this Fudakowski and Williams developed film projects, including ''

The Secret Sharer "The Secret Sharer" is a short story by Polish-British author Joseph Conrad, originally written in 1909 and first published in two parts in the August and September 1910 editions of '' Harper's Magazine''. It was later included in the short st ...

'' and ''Corams Children''. Fudakowski directed ''Secret Sharer'', shot on location in Thailand and China, which was released in the UK in June 2014. In November 2014 Fudakowski was awarded the Wings Award by the Polish Film Festival in America."Oscar winning filmmaker Peter (Piotr) Fudakowski receives 2014 PFFA Wings Award"
/ref> Peter Fudakowski is son of Wojciech and Danuta Fudakowski. His family is of noble Polish origin. His grandfather Jan Fudakowski was a Polish officer, author of military memoirs and was also the inspiration for Jasiu - a character in

Thomas Mann Paul Thomas Mann ( , ; ; 6 June 1875 – 12 August 1955) was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and the 1929 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate. His highly symbolic and ironic epic novels and novella ...

’s novella

Death in Venice ''Death in Venice ''(German: ''Der Tod in Venedig'') is a novella by German author Thomas Mann, published in 1912. It presents an ennobled writer who visits Venice and is liberated, uplifted, and then increasingly obsessed by the sight of a Poli ...

. Peter Fudakowski has a son and a daughter from his marriage to Williams.

Filmography

* ''Secret Sharer'' (2014) (director, writer, producer) * ''Hysteria'' (2011) (executive producer) *''

Keeping Mum ''Keeping Mum'' is a 2005 British black comedy film co written and directed by Niall Johnson and starring Rowan Atkinson, Kristin Scott Thomas, Maggie Smith and Patrick Swayze. It was produced by Isle of Man Film, Azure Films and Tusk Production ...

'' (2005) (associate producer) *''

'' (2005) (producer) *''

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l'' (2004) (associate producer) *''Piccadilly Jim'' (2004) (associate producer) *''

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'' (2003) (executive producer) *''Helen West'' (2002) TV Series (executive producer) *''The Last September'' (1999) (executive producer) *''Trial by Fire'' (1999) (TV) (executive producer) *''Prowokator'' (1995) (associate producer) (as Piotr Fudakowski)

References

External links

*"Peter Fudakowski" on IMD

*Official ''Tsotsi'' websit

*Presidents of the Cambridge Union Society (1815–200

*Secret Sharer website

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