Jan P. Matuszyński

Jan P. Matuszyński

He graduated from the Radio and Television Faculty of the University of Silesia in Katowice and completed the Documentary Programme at Wajda School. His films were presented at numerous film festivals in Poland and abroad. Director of the feature-length documentary Deep Love awarded multiple times. His feature-length film debut, The Last Family, became a real phenomenon distinguished with many awards in Poland and around the world. It was recognised as the ‘most artistically mature debut of the last seasons’. At the Film Festival in Gdynia in 2016 the film won the Golden Lions, the Journalists Award and the Audience Award. Apart from that, The Last Family received other awards, including the Golden Angel at the 2016 Tofifest IFF in Toruń, the 2016 FilmFestival Cottbus for Best Debut Film and the Krakow Film Award at the 2017 International Festival of Independent Cinema Off Camera in Krakow. Director of TV series such as The Border, Druga szansa (Season 4) and Nielegalni. In 2020 he directed the entire series The King of Warsaw based on a novel by Szczepan Twardoch.