Maciek Bochniak

Born in 1984, Maciek graduated from the Higher Screenwriting School of the Polish National Film, Television and Theatre School in Lodz, and from the directing department of the Silesian University in Katowice. Member of the Directors Guild of Poland. Winner of the Janusz Kuba Morgenstern “Perspective” Award for the film “Disco Polo”, which was watched by nearly a million viewers in less than six weeks. Winner of the Golden Claw Award at the 45th Polish Feature Film Festival in Gdynia for the film “Magnesia.” His third feature film “Freestyle” produced for the Netflix platform (TOP 10 in over 20 countries) was presented in the Main Competition of the 48th FPFF in Gdynia.

He made his debut in 2009 with the short documentary film “The Reception” (2011) as part of the “First Documentary” program at Munk Studio, and the short film “The Room,” which, among other things, was awarded the title of best independent film at the 37th Polish Film Festival in Gdynia, and was selected by Dziennik Polski as one of the 10 best Polish films of 2012.

He is the author of the acclaimed feature-length documentaries “A Billion Happy People” (an HBO production, whose pretext was the Chinese adventure of the band Bayer Full) and “Ethiopiques - Music of the Soul” (an HBO production, telling the forgotten story of Ethiopian jazzmen from the time of Haile Selassie).

Director of the hit TV series “The Office PL,” the 5th season of which will be released on the Canal + platform this fall.

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