Urszula Urbaniak
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| Born | December 27, 1962  Gdansk, Poland |
| Years active | 1994 - present |
Urszula Urbaniak (born 27 December 1962) is Polish filmmaker and TV director to parents Henryk (born 1939) and Irena Urbaniak (born 1938).
Urszula Urbaniak graduated in Directing from the famous Polish Film school, PWSFTviT in Lodz in 1991. She then went on to gain an MA in Directing at the NSFTV in the UK. She has directed shorts, documentaries and several dramas for Polish television. Among the dramas: Nina (1994), Gorski Hotel (from Vaclav Havel's play, 1995),Myra Gets Married (from F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1996) and Room303 (1997).
In 1999, her film "The Junction", Polish title "Torowisko" won several awards[1] including First Film Special Distinction at the Montréal World Film Festival and Jury Prize at the Sarajevo Film Festival and the Audience Award at Torino International Festival of Young Cinema.
Since then she has worked on several Polish TV productions [2]including Na Wspolnej, Egzamin z Zycia and Odwroceni.
[edit] References
- ^ See her entry at IMDB
- ^ see the Polish Film site at http://www.filmpolski.pl/fp/index.php/1110489
