Olga Chajdas

Theatre and film director. Born 1983. She made her theatre debut in 2008 directing Tuvia Tenenbom’s play Last Jew in Europe in Teatr na Woli. In the following years she directed Goat, or Who Is Sylvia? by Edward Albee, Make Your Own Paradise – an adaptation of Mariusz Szczygieł’s book, and Marsha Norman’s ‘night, Mother. Her TV directing works include the world-acclaimed High Water or the TV series The Border, which won the Polish Film Academy Award, and Netflix shows: 1983 or Cracow Monsters. She made a short film 3xLove (Grand Prix at the 2016 Short Film Festival Oddalenia in Dublin) and Morning Has Broken (Best Director award at Oakland Short Film Festival and Best Independent Film award at Ogólnopolski Konkurs Filmów Niezależnych in Konin). Her feature-length debut entitled Nina won awards such as the VPRO Big Screen Award at the 2018 International Film Festival Rotterdam and the Grand Prix of the Polish Films Competition at the 2018 Camerimage International Film Festival of the Art of Cinematography. She was nominated for the 2018 Polityka’s Passports in the film category. Together with Anna Jadowska, Anna Kazejak, Jagoda Szelc and Kasia Adamik she made the first Polish film for Netflix, Erotica 2022 (Special Mention at the Ischia Film Festival).