Maria Zmarz-Koczanowicz

Maria Zmarz-Koczanowicz
Jury member for the Graduation Films of 2019 (DN edition 6)

Maria Zmarz-Koczanowicz is a film director and scriptwriter from Poland.

She is one of the most prolific Polish documentary filmmakers who has made nearly 50 films.

Her films have been screened at numerous international festivals winning many awards (The Office, 1986, awarded with the Golden Dragon and the Golden Hobby Horse in Cracow and winning the Grand Prix at Cinéma du Réel. The documentary I love Poland has been awarded Best Documentary at Wiesbaden Film Festival Go East in 2009.

She graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Wroclaw (Painting) and the Radio and TV Department of the University of Silesia in Katowice.

She is also a professor at Film School in Łódz at the Directing Department.