Lukasz Karwowski

Polish screenwriter, director and producer of feature films. Well-known for "Novembre" ("November"), "Poludnie-Polnoc" ("South-North"), "Mala wielka milosc" ("Expecting Love"). Lukasz Karwowski was born in Torun, Poland in 1965. He studied Polish philology at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, then obtaining a degree from the Film and Television Directing Department of the National Film School in Lodz, where he was taught by Wojciech Jerzy Has. In 1989 he was a directing student at the National Film and Television School in the UK. In Belgrade, in the same year, he graduated from a film mastering workshop run by Istvan Szabo. His first movie, "Wstega Möbiusa" ("Mobius Ribbon"), was nominated for Student Academy Award (so-called student's Oscar) in 1989. He won also Main prize of Tel-Aviv International Student Film Festival. Thriller "Novembre" ("November"), 1993, took part in French Film Festival in Sarasota and Stockholm International Film Festival, in Poland was awarded Gdynia (Polish Feature Film Festival) Award of the Polish Culture Foundation. Huge achievement in Karwowski's filmography was opening of the 22nd Warsaw International Film Festival by drama "Poludnie-Polnoc" in 2006. This movie received also Flisak on "Tofifest" International Film Festival in Torun. It was the first polish production funded by independent means, which box office returned. Romantic comedy from 2008, "Mala wielka milosc", was a commercial success and commanded viewers' attention, so the film was regularly broadcast on many TV stations for years. He has been running his production company, Zoom Media sp. z o.o., for 20 years. He has produced also over 120 and directed over 300 television commercials - initially in France and then in Poland. His ads have gone to receive many awards at festivals.