He graduated from the Faculty of Cultural Anthropology at the University of Łódź and from the Film and Television Directing at the Leon Schiller National Higher School of Film, Television and Theatre in Łódź. He received a scholarship from the Northern School of Film and Television of Leeds Metropolitan University in Great Britain. Since 1992, he has been working independently, mainly for television: he has authored and co-authored programmes about art, music videos, and documentaries (such as Roman Kramsztyk – powrót / Roman Kramsztyk – The Return, Katalog / The Catalogue, Candid Camera zapis cenzurowany / Candid Camera Censored Record, Inny teatr / Another Theatre, Malowanki Franka Firanki / Franek Firanka’s Colourings).
He created eight Television Theatre shows, including plays for children: Walizka / The Suitcase (1998) and Dalej niż na wakacje / Further than on Vacation (2000), based on Anna Onichimowska’s books, as well as The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes by an unknown author (1999) and Henrik Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People (2009).
His debut full-length film was Edi, a fully independent production, which brought him numerous awards (e.g. Polityka’s Passport, Special Jury Prize and Critics’ Award at the Gdynia Film Festival, as well as Grand Prix at the Warsaw Film Festival), and also filled movie theatres in Poland. The dramatic, but at the same time tender and fairy-tale like story about two scrapyard workers, Edi (played by the old star of children’s cinema, Henryk Gołębiewski) and Jureczek (Jacek Braciak), won over even the most cynical reviewers:
This fairy-tale like film moved the spectators and critics alike, even those who don’t tend to cry, or do so only for a spiteful satisfaction that somebody failed again.
– wrote Michał Burszta on Filmweb.
