Saturday, Aug 29, 11:00-11:30, MAIN STAGE, Teatr Szóste Piętro · Palace of Culture and Science. Two Daytime Emmys and four years of directing Milionerzy in one masterclass · How a morning show is really built, hour by hour · What television learned long ago and the internet is learning now
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Producer · Educator
A creative producer and content executive, twice a Daytime Emmy winner during her years at CBS News Sunday Morning, where she produced arts and culture segments, including profiles of Yayoi Kusama and Elie Wiesel. She later served as Executive Producer at Sotheby's and Senior Producer at Voice of America, where she launched and led Plus One, a digital-first platform creating original programming for Mandarin-speakers worldwide. Today, she teaches film production at Loyola Marymount University and works at the intersection of film and generative AI, including with Machine Cinema and AI film GenJams.
At Warsaw Glitch 2026
Producer · Director · Founder · Poland
Dutch-Polish television and film producer, director and entrepreneur, founder, owner and chief executive of Jake Vision and Jake Vision DGA Studio, which together make up one of the leading independent production groups in Poland. The group works with the biggest broadcasters and platforms on the Polish market, Polsat, TVN, TVP and CANAL+ among them, and with international format owners, developing and producing entertainment, reality, premium scripted series and feature films.
He runs the company and stays hands-on at the same time, as producer, executive producer, creative director and format director, present on his own shoots. Years of directing are the foundation of how he works: format development and local adaptation, creative direction, the dramaturgy and construction of a show, casting, editorial decisions, studio direction, set design, the concept for light and cameras, rehearsals and the shoot itself.
Born in The Hague and a graduate of the Łódź Film School, he was head director at Endemol Polska and spent eight years directing at TVN. He founded Jake Vision in 2011. He has a long history with Dancing with the Stars, having directed many seasons before the group took over producing it for Polsat, and with Milionerzy, the Polish Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, where he directed hundreds of episodes and then moved into producing; Jake Vision makes the current run for Polsat. The company also produces the Polish adaptation of The Traitors and, in 2026, two seasons of Kocham Cię, Polsko! for TVP2. Behind it are nine seasons of Love Island, Ninja Warrior Polska, Top Chef, Hell's Kitchen and Must Be the Music.
At Warsaw Glitch 2026
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