Biography

Jan Paweł Matuszyński (born 23 April 1984, Katowice) is a Polish film director and a producer of documentary films. In 2012, he graduated in Film and Television Directing at the Krzysztof Kieślowski Film School in Katowice. In 2014, he was awarded the Silver George Award at the Moscow Film Festival for his documentary film Deep Love. In 2016, he won the Golden Lions award at the 41st Gdynia Film Festival for The Last Family, a film telling the story of artist Zdzisław Beksiński, starring Andrzej Seweryn (awarded the Silver Leopard for that role at the Locarno Film Festival) and Dawid Ogrodnik. In 2016, he was awarded the Paszport Polityki Award in the film category for The Last Family. His latest film Leave No Traces entered the main competition at the 78th Venice International Film Festival. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jan P. Matuszyński, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.