Urszula Urbaniak is Polish filmmaker and TV director

Urszula Urbaniak graduated in Directing from the famous Polish Film school, PWSFTviT in Łódź 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), Górski Hotel (from Václav Havel

Václav Havel

Václav Havel is a Czech playwright, essayist, poet, dissident and politician. He was the tenth and last President of Czechoslovakia and the first President of the Czech Republic . He has written over twenty plays and numerous non-fiction works, translated internationally...

's play, 1995), Myra Gets Married (from F. Scott Fitzgerald

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was an American author of novels and short stories, whose works are the paradigm writings of the Jazz Age, a term he coined himself. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. Fitzgerald is considered a member of the "Lost...

, 1996) and Room303 (1997).

In 1999, her film "The Junction", Polish title "Torowisko" won several awards including First Film Special Distinction at the Montréal World Film Festival and Jury Prize at the Sarajevo Film Festival

Sarajevo Film Festival

The Sarajevo Film Festival is the premier and largest film festival in the Balkans, and is one of the largest in Europe. It was founded in Sarajevo in 1995 during the siege of Sarajevo, and brings international and local celebrities to Sarajevo every year. It is held in August and showcases an...

 and the Audience Award at Torino International Festival of Young Cinema.

Since then she has worked on several Polish TV productions including Na Wspólnej, Egzamin z Życia and Odwróceni.

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