PAWEL PAWLIKOWSKI

Pawel Pawlikowski is an Oscar and BAFTA Award-winning Polish-British filmmaker. He was born in Warsaw but left Poland at the age of 14 to live in Germany and Italy, before moving to the UK in 1977. He studied literature and philosophy at London and Oxford and started making films in the mid-1980s. Pawel’s early work was in a documentary for the BBC. His best-known documentaries from that period include From Moscow to Pietushki, Dostoevsky’s Travels, Serbian Epics and Tripping with Zhirinovsky which between them won an Emmy International, Prix Italia, the Grierson and two Royal Television Society Awards alongside many other prizes on the festival circuit. In 1998 Pawlikowski moved into fiction with the small budget made-for-TV film Twockers, which he co-wrote and directed with Ian Duncan and is strongly rooted in his early experience with the documentary. This was followed by two full-length features, Last Resort and My Summer of Love, both of which he wrote and directed and which both won BAFTAs, as well as other awards at festivals around the world. After moving back to Warsaw, he made Ida, which won many awards, including the 2015 Academy Award for Foreign Language Film.