BARTOSZ M. KOWALSKI

A graduate of film schools in Paris and Los Angeles. He is the author of the award-winning HBO documentaries “A Dream in the Making” and “Unstoppables”. Winner of the 2014 Script Pro Screenwriting Competition, nominated for the Paszport Polityki Award and the Polish Directors’ Guild Award. His feature debut, the social drama “Playground”, premiered at the San Sebastian Film Festival, and received awards at film festivals in Gdynia, Warsaw, Koszalin, London and Melbourne. He has spent the last few years collaborating with Netflix, for whom he directed the horror films “Nobody Sleeps in the Woods Tonight” 1&2 and “Hellhole”.

His fantasy drama, “Night Silence”, premiered in the autumn at one of the world’s foremost genre film festivals – the Sitges Film Festival in Spain. His newest film, “13 Days Till Summer”, won the Best Director Award in the main competition at Fantastic Fest in the United States – the most important genre film festival in the world.

Masterclass: Bartosz M. Kowalski “From Concept to Creation”