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LukaszKowalski

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Director, screenwriter and producer, member of the Polish Film Academy, the Polish Filmmakers Association and the Polish Producers Alliance. His feature-length debut The Pawnshop (Lombard) won the Polish Film Award, the Eagle, for Best Documentary of 2023, screened at nearly 100 international festivals and took 25 awards, including the Grand Prix at Millennium Docs Against Gravity and Best Film from Central and Eastern Europe at Astra Film Festival, alongside IDA Award nominations for Best Film and Best Director. Professionally tied to TVP Polish Television since 2007, he has authored over 170 short documentaries and investigative reportages, with wins in Poland's most prestigious journalism competitions, including the PAP Ryszard Kapuściński Award and the Watergate Award of the Polish Journalists Association. A graduate of the University of Silesia in Katowice and Wajda School, he has taken part in development programmes such as Dok.Incubator, Ex Oriente and DocLab Poland. Since 2018 he has co-owned 4:30 Studio, a production company in Katowice.

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Adi SidemanCEOFounderMaciej ZientaraEntrepreneurAngel InvestorStephan V. BugajCreative DirectorProducerMinh DoCEOProducerJames DrakePhilanthropistFounderMassimo BenvegnùCriticCuratorStuart CrippsSupervisorVFX / AIJagger WatersDirectorFilmmakerAffan ImranCEOFounderArtem PetrovCEOFounderThomas R. CarringtonDirectorFounderBilguun AriunbaatarPresenterActorPaweł DelągActorDirectorKarol ŻbikowskiCEOProducerJaroslaw GrzywinskiCEOLawyerMichał "OverJK" OwerczukDirectorFounderRobert MoscickiCEOMike WolniakCEOFounderMaciej GozdowskiStreamingCEOJan KepinskiDirectorProducerLukasz KowalskiDirectorJournalistMarcin PerzynaCEOProducerMaciej KaweckiLawyerEducatorKatarzyna StaroslawskaData & AIAI RegulationPiotr SliskowskiCinematographerEducatorCezary GrzesiukEditorFilmmakerKamil PrzeleckiProducerEducatorMatt TokarzVFX SupervisorCreative DirectorMeggie MiaoProducerEducatorMargarita GrubinaVoice AIBusiness GrowthOscar BurgosVFX SupervisorDirectorCaroline KoziolComedianCreatorJakub SzymczukPhotojournalistJournalistRobert GulaczykActorPolicy ReformAndrzej NejmanActorDirectorBartosz TrzopArchitectCEOSebastian FabijanskiActorDirectorAureliusz GorskiFounderEntrepreneurEdmond YangArtistCreative DirectorNik Preston KujavecProducerDesignerMarc HorguesCreative DirectorFounderArtur KurasinskiEntrepreneurAuthorMarcin GrabarczykCybersecurityEngineerEdi PyrekFuturistAuthorJustin Trevor WintersScriptwriterEducatorAdrien BodsonProducerScriptwriterMatthew SzewczykDirectorCreative DirectorBen ChimoyDirectorFilmmakerMarcus GripFilmmakerEducatorElettra FiumiDocumentaryDirectorMarta SolikCreative DirectorFounderMeg ButtonCreative DirectorProducerMatt SwulinskiBusiness GrowthFounderJoshua KappelLawyerPolicy ReformMichal KibilLawyerTech LawFilip KonopczynskiLawyerAI RegulationMariusz BusiloLawyerMedia LawPiotr SenkusScientistEducatorMarek TryzybowiczArchitectFounderSylvain PerretCreative TechnologistFounderDominika Aurelia KoryckaArtistFilmmakerMarta Mary SoltysiakMotion CaptureAnimationLaura TorngaProducerEducatorDiane LaidlawFilmmakerCreative TechnologistCaroline ThireauCreative TechnologistEducatorMonsieur MoyenDirectorFilmmakerBrogan WassellFilmmakerDirectorAlbert BozesanFilmmakerScriptwriterAdrian Daniel BotnariuFilmmakerFounderEugenio FierroArt DirectorEducatorBilly BomanFounderProducerPawel PotakowskiAccessibilityLawyerThemo "themojn" MelikidzeActorCreative DirectorMarkus & Tanja LaukkanenArtistsFilmmakersAmit LathCEOEntrepreneurMarcin SlaczkaCEOFuturistBartlomiej KurylakInvestorFounderPiotr ZientaraFounderCEORadoslaw JareckiProducerCEOMichal RatajczakCEOFounderMariusz PolecCEOFounderCezary BrodaCEOBusiness GrowthDominika MazurFounderIRL EntertainmentMaciej Krystian SzymanskiBusiness GrowthAI RegulationIrmina ZakrzewskaPresenterBusiness GrowthBartlomiej GlowackiFounderHealth TechKacper WikielFounderEngineerYonatan KraSoftware ArchitectEngineerIllarion KoperskiCTOE-commerceMikhail KorolevEngineerDeveloper ExperienceArtur ZochniakEngineerJan Ignacy KrólikowskiComposerMusic ProducerAndre DanekMusic ProducerComposerPola LachnikModelAI RegulationJedrzej JezierskiActorPresenterPhilippe BukaTalent AgentFounder
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