Jakub Pączek »
Born in 1984, in Kraków. Graduate of the film directing at the Krzysztof Kieślowski Film School in Katowice, Poland and the History of Church at the Pontifical Academy of Theology in Kraków. He has also studied History of Art. He directed several short films based on his own scripts, among them the awarded "The Washing Machine", and the wordwidely acclaimed one-minute short on the cultural importance of the toilet paper, titled "Rolls of Identity". International premiere of his last documentary, entitled "The Best Chicks onthe Train" took place during the International Student Film and Video Festival in Beijing Film Academy, China. Jakub participated in the Screenwriting Lab 2009 (Poland) and the Breaking Shorts Campus 2009 in Nijmegen (Holland). In 2010 he recieved City of Krakow Scholarship for the Young Artists and in 2011 Award of the Rector of the Silesian University for Outstanding Students. His graduation film titled "The A Side" will have its premiere on the CAMERIMAGE 2011. At the moment he is finishing postproduction of his thirty minute professional debut "The 128th Rat", which he also wrote (premiere in 2012).