MACIEJ CUSKE

Participant in the MDAG Industry meetings.

Director and documentary filmmaker. Creator of many award-winning films, including „The Cure” (2004) – Audience Award at the Tofifest International Film Festival, Diploma of Recognition at the Krakow Film Festival in the Polish Competition and „Old Bookstore” (2005) – Special Award Golden Hobby-Horse at the Krakow Film Festival, Bronze Spire at the Ofensiva International Film Festival. In 2007, he made a documentary film „On the Sky on Earth” portraying Polish UFO researchers. Together with the Paladino group, he produced the documentary „Andrzej Wajda: Let's Shoot!” (2008). For „Decalogue III. Remember the Sabbath Day to Keep It Holy” (2008), he received the Silver Hobby Horse at the Krakow Film Festival and a Special Award at the Media Film Festival Man in Danger.

In 2013, he made his fiction film debut with „Stacja Warszawa”, a feature-length production co-directed by five directors. He co-wrote Mateusz Rakowicz's award-winning film „Romantik” (2016). His latest documentary, „The Whale from Lorino”, won the 2021 Polish Film Award for Best Documentary, the 2020 Silver Horn at the Krakow Film Festival in the International Documentary Competition, as well as awards for Best Editing and Best Production, and the award for Best Production in the Polish Competition at Millennium Docs Against Gravity.

Together with Marcin Sauter, he runs the Bydgoszcz Film Chronicle. He is one of three tutors teaching the DOK PRO documentary course at the Wajda School.