MACIEK HAMELA

"In the Rearview" director.

Film and radio producer, director, scriptwriter. Born in Warsaw, Poland, he received a master's degree from Sorbonne University (Paris IV) in French literature. A graduate of film directing at École Internationale de Création Audiovisuelle et de Réalisation (EICAR) which he attended while mudding the walls of old Parisian tenement houses, working in a bakery and as a tour guide in Paris. He is a longtime BBC Channel collaborator. A co-creator and a producer of a documentary short film Bless You, for which he received a Doc Alliance Award within the Cannes Docs program (Cannes FF 2021), the short was also presented at Millennium Docs Against Gravity FF. He produced films such as Convictions (MDR Film Prize for an outstanding Eastern European documentary film at Dok Leipzig IFF 2016), Gatherers of Sea Grass, Polonaise or Parquet. Being a director and a producer of various radio works he has received the Silver Melchior Radio Award for the Premiere of the Year 2018 in the Polish Radio Reporters National Competition. He produced and co-directed Plan B, a documentary podcast series for Audioteka. A full-length documentary film In the Rearview is his directorial debut.

Selected filmography:

2023 In the Rearview

2021 Bless You (short)