AGNIESZKA ZWIEFKA

"Vika!" director.

Is an awarded documentary film director, winner of Silver Horn at Krakow Film Festival, the Big Golden Nanook at Flahertiana Festival, Urania Award at LET’S CEE Festival, Zoom Award at MFF T-Mobile New Horizons and many others. Her latest film „The Queen of Silence“ (2014) premiered at IDFA festival in Amsterdam in the main competition and was screened at over 50 festivals worldwide, awarded 15 times and coproduced by such TV stations as HBO Europe, ZDF/ARTE, SVT, YLE and RAI. In her films she balances between reality and fantasy, creating hybrids that cross the border between documentary and fiction. Currently she is finishing a hybrid documentary “Scars” about former female Tamil Tigers fighters in Sri Lanka (to premiere in 2019) and working on her feature debut “Patagonia”. Agnieszka Zwiefka also holds a PhD degree and works as a lecturer of documentary film at the Institute of Journalism and Social Communication at the University of Wroclaw. Member of European Film Academy, Polish Filmmakers Society and EWA European Women’s Audiovisual Network. Alumna of workshops Dok.Incubator, EsoDoc, ScripTeast and Berlinale Talents.