Joanna Napieralska

Graduate of the Department of Sound Engineering from the Fryderyk Chopin Music Academy (currently, the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music). Employed as a FCUM professor at the Chair of Sound Engineering. She collaborates with the Łódź Film School and the Music Academy in Bydgoszcz. Since 1986, active as the author of layers of sound for many cinema and television films, winner of awards for sound, she worked e.g. with Wojciech Marczewski, Jacek Koprowicz, Sławomir Fabicki, Jan Kidawa-Błoński. Holder of scholarships from the BBC TV Centre and Nipkow Programme in Berlin. Member of the Polish Film Academy, the European Film Academy and the Motion Pictures Sound Editors. Initiator of the European Film Award for Best Sound Designer. Author of books: Weiser dramaturgiczna rola dźwięku and Sound Design droga emancypacji dźwięków filmowych, scientific editor of a two-volume monograph Multimedia, vol. 1: Estetyka – dźwięk, vol. 2: Obraz – interakcje.