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Beata Pozniak won the prestigious Voice Arts Award in the "Outstanding Video Game Character - Best Performance" category for her role of Skarlet, the Blood Queen in "Mortal Kombat 11". She is also a five times Voice Arts Award nominee. Additionally Beata was honored by the Washington Post for the "Best Audiobook of the Year". She is a two-time Earphones Award Winner for audiobook narration: "Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead" by Nobel Prize winner Olga Tokarczuk and "The Light in Hidden Places" by #1 Bestselling New York Times author, Sharon Cameron. She also narrated documentaries such as "The Officer's Wife" about the mass murder of Polish officers in the Katyn forrest and co-narrated "Freedom from Despair", a film about communism, for which she won a Croatian Heart Award together with John Savage and Michael York. This also received an honorable mention from the US Congress. She was a co-producer of "An Unknown Country" which received an EMMY Award nomination for Best Documentary. Beata grew up in Poland during the cold war and arrived in the US before the Berlin Wall came down. Her first film in America was Oliver Stone's eight-time Oscar nominated "JFK" where she played Marina Oswald, the on-screen wife of Gary Oldman. An experimental film "All These Voices" where she played a Holocaust survivor won a student Oscar. She embodied many diverse roles in TV, including Irene, a revolutionary in George Lucas's "Young Indiana Chronicles", Dr. Fielding on "Melrose Place", Masha on "Mad About You" and on "Babylon 5" she played a female President of the World. She founded Theater Discordia which was featured at Los Angeles Theater Festival and which evolved, with the participation of Peter Sellars, into a celebrated venue for experimental theater works. With time her company expanded into Discordia Global Media, where Pozniak directs films inspired by real events or by poetry. She has been named as one of the most important voices in videoart, filmpoems genre in an encyclopedic book "The Poetics of Poetry Film" published by IntellectBooks. She has been selected as the Poet of the Month by the Seventh Quarry Press. Her poetry has been translated into Armenian, Polish and Korean. Her latest anthology is from Africa "I Can't Breathe: A Poetic Anthology of Social Justice". Beata frequently sits on judging panels for the Television Academy, Primetime Emmy Awards and has been a Celebrity Presenter for the IFP (Independent Feature Project West) "Independent Spirit Awards," The Firebird Awards. She also presented posthumously an Award to Audrey Hepburn at the Human Rights Film Festival supported by the United Nations. A passionate human rights activist, Beata introduced the first bill in the history of the US Congress to recognize officially International Women's Day in the United States (H.J.R. 316) for which she was honored by the Mayor of Los Angeles and the US Congress. She received the Maria Konopnicka International Prize for "Outstanding Achievements in the Arts and for Championing Women's Rights Around the World". In the tradition of "Hollywood's Walk of Fame", she was acknowledged with a bronze hand in Poland's Walk of Fame. Appointed by the President of SAG-AFTRA to the Women's Commitee, she also often serves as a Juror, including for the EMMY Awards at the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Pozniak holds an MFA in Film and Drama Arts. She has been on the faculty at USC (Master's Degree Program) and UCLA.- Actress
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Liliana Komorowska (maiden name Glabczynska), received her MA degree with honors from the Zelwerowicz State Theater Academy in Warsaw in 1979. In 1980, she made her debut performance in a Masterpiece Theater production of "The Crucible" as "Abigail", winning the Best Actor Award from the Polish Television Academy. From then on, her acting career spanned from television, through stage and feature film. Throughout the years at the renowned Dramatic Theatre in Warsaw, she performed with the masters of the Polish stage. Some of the most prominent of her roles were those in Gombrowicz's Operetta, Racine's Britannicus, Diderot's Jacques the Fatalist, and Shakespeare's As You Like It.
She was part of the finest period of the Polish Masterpiece Theater, with a number of memorable roles: "Roxanne" in "Cyrano de Bergerac", "Linda Manion" in "Anatomy of a Murder" and her role of a prostitute in Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman", by the side of the icon of the Polish theater, Tadeusz Lomnicki. Liliana's accomplished stage career was complemented by a number of film roles.
She worked with such excellent directors as Krzysztof Zanussi in The Contract (1980) and "A Man Fom a Far Country" for Jerzy Kawalerowicz appeared in "Death of a President" and in "Austeria" as Jedwocha, one of her most acclaimed film roles. At the time of the martial law in Poland, in 1982, she was offered a part in an American production of War and Love (1985), starring Kyra Sedgwick, directed by Moshé Mizrahi (Oscar winner for 1977's "Madame Rosa"). The movie became a turning point of her career.
After the filming, she decided to stay in the USA and explore the world's largest and most influential film and television market. Her US career developed steadily and, as before, in this new environment, she remained involved in a wide variety of artistic enterprises, continuing her work in film, theatre, and TV. From 1984, she played leading roles in US TV daytime series including: Another World (1964) for NBC (as "Daphne Grimaldi", 1985), As the World Turns (1956) for CBS (as "Angela Visconti", 1986), One Life to Live (1968) for ABC (as "Anabella Corto", 1987). She starred in an off-Broadway drama "Shots at Fate". This period also brought leading film roles in TV productions such as: Simon & Simon (1981), The Equalizer (1985), Kojak: Ariana (1989) and a guest-starring role in a CBS pilot "The Saint".
Liliana's feature film credits of this period include an indie production Astonished (1990) with her lead role as Sonia - a female counterpart of Raskolnikov from "Crime and Punishment", opposite Charles Dutton (Alien³ (1992)), and Her Alibi (1989), with the part of Paulina Porizkova's sister in a duet with Tom Selleck, a comedy directed by Bruce Beresford (Oscar winner for Driving Miss Daisy (1989)).
While in Europe from 1989-91, Liliana signed a contract with the BBC for a role in an acclaimed TV serial Mother Love (1989), starring the great Diana Rigg (BAFTA award for the best British TV series). In the meantime, she played in a Polish-French co-production "Napoleon", American series Veronica Clare (1991) and Acapulco H.E.A.T. (1993), a CBS miniseries Lucky Chances (1990), based on a screenplay by Jackie Collins.
Another chapter in her career started with a role in a sci-fi horror Scanners III: The Takeover (1991), a film which had a major influence on her life. This is where she met her future husband, one of the most acclaimed Canadian directors, Christian Duguay. Liliana and Christian embarked on a very creative and successful partnership of an actress and a director as well as wife and husband.
Roles that followed include such films as Screamers (1995) with Peter Weller (RoboCop (1987)), Red Light (1999) with Tomas Arana, produced by famous brothers Tony Scott and Ridley Scott (Galaxy award for best Canadian TV film). Her next role in The Assignment (1997) put her on screen next to movie stars Aidan Quinn, Donald Sutherland and Ben Kingsley.
The line-up of her latest roles feature such films as the CBS miniseries Joan of Arc (13 Emmy nominations), the feature Suspicious Minds , starring Patrick Bergin and Gary Busey, and a leading female role in a recent CTV production The Royal Scandal (2001) and the latest thriller by Christian Duguay The Art of War (2000), starring Wesley Snipes and a high impact action feature Extreme Ops (2002), opening in North America on 27 November 2002.
Liliana Komorowska lives in Montreal, Canada, where she is actively involved in both English and French film and TV.- Director
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Piotr Szulkin was born on 26 April 1950 in Gdansk, Pomorskie, Poland. He was a director and writer, known for The War of the Worlds: Next Century (1981), Golem (1980) and Ga-ga: Glory to the Heroes (1986). He was married to Renata Karwowska-Szulkin. He died on 3 August 2018 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland.- Actor
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Piotr Witkowski was born on 12 December 1988 in Gdansk, Pomorskie, Poland. Piotr is an actor and writer, known for Proceder (2019), Squadron 303 (2018) and The Champion (2020).- Actress
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Ingrid van Bergen was born on 15 June 1931 in Danzig-Langfuhr, Free City of Danzig [now Wrzeszcz, Gdansk, Pomorskie, Poland]. She is an actress, known for Escape from East Berlin (1962), Roses for the Prosecutor (1959) and Was wissen Sie von Titipu? (1972).- Art Department
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Kasia Kowalczyk was born on 7 August 1977 in Gdansk, Pomorskie, Poland. She is an actress, known for Star Trek (2009), The Bread Squeezer (2006) and Bye Bye Blue (2020). She has been married to Tal Harris since 15 January 2003.- Eccentric, self-deprecating comedian Eddi Arent first attracted attention in a series of quirky Edgar Wallace adaptations in the 1960's. For several years, he was Germany's idea of stereotypically blithering English lords (The Strange Countess (1961), as the aptly named Lord Selwyn Moron), laconic butlers (Secret of the Red Orchid (1962)) or obtuse, clumsy second-string Scotland Yard photographers (Dead Eyes of London (1961), The Door with Seven Locks (1962). Otherwise, Arent was patently reliable as droll, vaguely effete sidekicks and comic relief in westerns and adventure films based on the ever-popular writings of Karl May. He is fondly remembered as the mild-mannered, bumbling butterfly collector Castlepool in the 'Winnetou' trilogy, beginning with The Treasure of the Silver Lake (1962). To confound those who had him perpetually typecast, Arent also donned the black garb of villainy as a murderous monk for one of his last Edgar Wallace potboilers, The Sinister Monk (1965). He must have enjoyed this change of character, since he repeated the exercise: first (not too convincingly), playing a human trafficker masquerading as a priest in Der Bucklige von Soho (1966); then, as a knife-throwing killer in the English-German co-production Psycho-Circus (1966), which had the great Christopher Lee (for once) relegated to the role of the 'red herring'.
Unlike most of his peers, Arent had little formal theatrical training. Instead, he began in cabaret, where he developed the character sketches and personae which would later make his name. Nor did he have any interest in forging a career on the legitimate stage. Films first saw him as a dramatic actor in minor supporting roles, his natural talent as a comedian not recognised until the end of the 1950's. After his hey-day in the 60's, his subsequent output was fairly unremarkable. For the most part, he fluttered around on the margins of youth-oriented low-brow pop-films. Some of his other pictures may have appealed to devotees of 'Heimatfilm' schmaltz. However, in the 80's, Arent acquired a new following with the television sketch show Harald und Eddi (1987). In conjunction with perennial audience favorite Harald Juhnke, he delighted audiences with his comedic versatility. Leaving the limelight in the 1990's, Arent then endured a series of financial and personal setbacks. Suffering from depression and increasingly afflicted by dementia, he died in May 2013 at the age of 88. - Matthias Habich was born on 12 January 1940 in Danzig, Germany [now Gdansk, Pomorskie, Poland]. He is an actor, known for Enemy at the Gates (2001), Downfall (2004) and The Reader (2008).
- Marianna Zydek is an actress who has worked in the Polish movie industry. She earned acclaim for her performance in The Butler (2018) while she was still a student at the Theatre School. She graduated from the Polish National Film, Television and Theatre School in Lodz in 2018. Despite her professional commitments, she often returns to her roots. Her passion for acting has been evident from her early years.
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Krzysztof Majchrzak was born on 2 March 1948 in Gdansk, Pomorskie, Poland. He is an actor and writer, known for Inland Empire (2006), Historia kina w Popielawach (1998) and Pornography (2003).- Tomasz Schafernaker was born on 8 January 1979 in Gdansk, Pomorskie, Poland. He is an actor, known for Years and Years (2019), UFO Europe: The Untold Stories (2012) and The Unexplained Files (2013).
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Michal Chacinski was born on 4 March 1971 in Gdansk, Pomorskie, Poland. He is a writer and producer, known for Planeta Singli 3 (2019), Juliusz (2018) and Planet Single (2016).- Animation Department
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Andreas Deja was born on 1 April 1957 in Gdansk, Pomorskie, Poland. He is an assistant director, known for Mushka (2023), The Princess and the Frog (2009) and Winnie the Pooh (2011).- Actor
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Wolfgang Völz was born on 16 August 1930 in Free City of Danzig [now Gdansk, Pomorskie, Poland]. He was an actor and writer, known for Asterix and Obelix vs. Caesar (1999), Babeck (1968) and Raumpatrouille - Die phantastischen Abenteuer des Raumschiffes Orion (1966). He was married to Roswitha Völz. He died on 2 May 2018 in Berlin, Germany.- Producer
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Alexander Salkind is the legendary film producer. His father, Michael Salkind, was also a well-known, successful film producer. Also known as Alex Salkind, he was the father of Ilya Salkind. They were partners for decades, teaming up on the hits The Three Musketeers (1973) and The Four Musketeers (1974), and taking credit for producing the first "comic book movie" with the blockbuster Superman (1978), which they followed with Superman II (1980) and Superman III (1983).
Together, the Salkinds are possibly one of the most successful father/son producing teams in motion picture history.- Composer
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Hania Rani is a pianist, composer and musician who splits her life between Warsaw, where she makes her home, and Berlin where she studied and often works. She has written for strings, piano, voice and electronics and has collaborated with the likes of Christian Löffler, Dobrawa Czocher and Hior Chronik. She has performed at some of the most prestigious venues in Europe - from the National Philharmony in Warsaw, to Funkhaus in Berlin, to The Roundhouse in London and at festivals such as Open'er, Scope Festival and Eurosonic. Her compositions for solo piano were born out of a fascination with the piano as an instrument, and her desire to interpret its sound and harmonic possibilities in their entirety and in her own way.
Her debut album 'Esja', a beguiling collection of solo piano pieces on Gondwana Records was released to international acclaim on April 5th 2019, including nominations in 5 categories in the Polish music industry's very own Grammys, the Fryderyki, winning the Discovery of the Year 2019 in the Empik chain's Bestseller Awards, plus the prestigious Sanki award for the most interesting new face of Polish music as chosen by Polish journalists. Rani also composed the music for her first full length movie "I Never Cry" directed by Piotr Domalewski, and for the play "Nora" directed by Michal Zdunik. Her song "Eden" was used as a soundtrack of a short movie by Malgorzata Szumowska for Miu Miu's movie cycle "Women's Tales".
Her follow-up album 'Home', will be released digitally on May 29th and finds Rani adding vocals and subtle electronics to her music as well as being joined on some tracks by bassist Ziemowit Klimek and drummer Wojtek Warmijak. The album reunites her with recording engineers Piotr Wieczorek and Ignacy Gruszecki (Monochrom Studio), and the tracks were again mixed by Gijs van Klooster in his studio in Amsterdam and by Piotr Wieczorek in Warsaw (Ombelico and Come Back Home). Home was mastered by Zino Mikorey in Berlin (known for his work on albums by artists such as Nils Frahm and Olafur Arnalds).
Rani grew up in Gdansk with her parents (a doctor and architect) and surrounded by music and films. Initially inspired to study classical music, she was introduced to jazz and electronics at music school, widening her interests and as she puts it, "mixing Chopin & Schostakovitch with Dave Brubeck and Moderat". Other inspirations include composers such as Max Richter, Esbjorn Svensson, Miles Davis, Nils Frahm, Murcof, Portico Quartet, Radiohead and even The Beatles.
But Rani's inspirations aren't just musical, she has drawn inspiration from places she has lived and visited. "It's about the feeling, the general atmosphere, sometimes about memories. Moving to Berlin (where you have the freedom to be yourself), exploring Iceland and the wild mountains in Bieszczady, South-East Poland, all changed me as a person, so I guess, also affected me as an artist."And inspiration comes too from visual arts. Her father was an architect and the arts remain hugely important to Rani. Indeed, for Rani it is often an image or a colour that comes first, what she calls a sound image. "I can really feel the colours, the mood - just like with photography. If the image is strong enough, sounds come along very quickly, trying to build the right image stuck in my head. The music fills the space, the music brings the new worlds, new spaces."- Bernhard Goetzke was born on 5 June 1884 in Danzig, West Prussia, Kingdom of Prussia, Germany [now Gdansk, Poland]. He was an actor, known for Salamander (1928), Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler (1922) and Die Nibelungen: Siegfried (1924). He died on 7 October 1964 in West Berlin, West Germany.
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Zeisberg was born Ingmar Muhes in Danzig (present-day Gdansk). At the outbreak of World War II, Ingmar, with her ailing, widowed mother in tow, made her way to Denmark where both languished for two years in an internment camp. At war's end, Ingmar returned to Berlin to study journalism. By 1950, her career plans now changed, she enrolled at the prestigious Max Reinhardt Academy of the Deutsches Theater to study drama. Her stage debut in a production of Goethe's Faust followed soon after. Upon graduation, Ingmar found work as a theater and film critic in Cologne and also authored several screenplays.
In 1954, Ingmar was hand-picked by the director Georg Wilhelm Pabst to appear in the marital drama Afraid to Love (1954). She then had a successful run, appearing in many entertainments of varied genres: Heimatfilms, musical comedies, costume dramas and post-war Trümmerfilms, in most of which she worked under high profile directors like Helmut Käutner, Géza von Cziffra, Victor Tourjansky and Arthur Maria Rabenalt. By the early 60s, Ingmar starred in a couple of commercially popular Edgar Wallace-based potboilers (The Strangler of Blackmoor Castle (1963), The Inn on Dartmoor (1964)) and crime thrillers (Meet Peter Voss (1959), Nebelmörder (1964)). After a three-year long hiatus, she then also conquered the TV market, her most memorable role being the mariticidal Diana Stewart in the miniseries Wie ein Blitz (1970), adapted from a work by British crime novelist Francis Durbridge. Ingmar rounded off her career with seven appearances in the hit TV police series Tatort (1970).
The actress was married five times. Her exes included the producer Klaus Stapenhorst and the director Wolfgang Staudte. She was predeceased by her fifth husband, the architect and town planner Albert Speer Jr., son of the infamous former German Reich Minister of Armaments and War Production.- Editor
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Radek Sienski, BFE, has garnered recognition in the industry with his BAFTA-nominated credentials and a professional career spanning over a decade in the domains of broadcast TV and film. His collaborations are marked by regular engagements with industry leaders such as Netflix, Disney+, BBC and Channel 4. He is a member of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (Emmy) and the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA).
His portfolio boasts a multitude of awards, including those earned for his work on projects such as 'The Write-Offs', 'First Dates', and 'A Question of Time' among other productions.
Recent additions to Radek's portfolio include projects such as 'Man Vs. Bee' (Netflix) featuring the celebrated Rowan Atkinson, 'Save Our Squad with David Beckham,' a collaboration with the legendary David Beckham for Disney+, and an upcoming series scheduled for release on Apple TV+.- Actress
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Julia Kaminska was born on 13 November 1987 in Gdansk, Pomorskie, Poland. She is an actress and writer, known for BrzydUla (2008), BrzydUla 2 (2020) and Singielka (2015).- Cinematographer
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ASC Vision Mentorship Program mentee 2024/2025.
As child his main passion was guitar, skateboard and film photography. After highschool he took gap year to prepare for exams for film school, where he started education in 2016. He graduated Gdynia Film School in the end of 2018. Right after graduation in may 2019 he immediately finished his first full-length feature film "Zieja" as camera operator cooperating with Witold Plociennik and Robert Glinski, then TV-Series "Pulapka" with Marian Prokop and Adrian Panek. Then for one year he worked as camera operator in TV series "O mnie sie nie martw", where he finally debut as DP.
In the end of 2020 he shot his second TV series as DP, "Przyjaciolki" directed by Filip Gieldon and with the same director at age of just 25 years he shot his first full length feature film "Magdalena" in march 2021, becoming one of the youngest cinematographers in Polish history. His debut film won many awards in Poland, United Kingdom, Sweden, Finland.
His short films, such as "Summer 43", "Sto lat", "Tacking", Everything for my Friend", "Trap", were selected and awarded on many film festivals in Poland, Portugal, Finland, Mexico, Spain, United Kingdom, India, Slovakia to name few.- Else Elster was born on 22 February 1910 in Danzig, West Prussia, Germany [now Gdansk, Pomorskie, Poland]. She was an actress, known for Three Girls Around Schubert (1936), Secret of the Blue Room (1932) and Trouble Backstairs (1935). She died on 28 March 1998 in Günzburg, Bavaria, Germany.
- Grazyna Wolszczak is a Polish actress known for her work in theater, movies, and television. She completed her studies at the Aleksander Zelwerowicz Theatre Academy in Warsaw in 1983. After graduation, she began her career at the New Theater in Poznan and later joined the Polish Theater in Warsaw in 1987. She is associated with a variety of theaters in Warsaw. She is recognized for her role as Judyta Katarzyna Kozlowska in the movie Ja wam pokaze! (2005). She also gained popularity for her roles in the TV series Na Wspólnej (2003), and Pierwsza milosc (2004).
- Dorota Stalinska was born on 1 June 1953 in Gdansk, Pomorskie, Poland. She is an actress, known for Bez milosci (1980), Krzyk (1983) and Moje stare (2023).
- Jadwiga Jankowska-Cieslak was born on 15 February 1951 in Gdansk, Pomorskie, Poland. She is an actress, known for Rysa (2008), Another Way (1982) and Sam na sam (1977). She was previously married to Piotr Cieslak.