Mirosław Bork

Mirosław Bork

Film director, scriptwriter and film producer. The producer of a several dozen of documentary films and film series introduced to Polish and German market and a several hundreds of TV episodes.

Graduate of Polish philology at the University of Gdańsk and the Krzysztof Kieślowski Radio and Television Faculty at the University of Silesia in Katowice.

Between 1994 and 1999 he occupied the position of the director the TVP S.A. Agency of Theatre and Film Production. Since 1999 he has worked as an independent producer. Between 1997 and 2000 – vice-President of the Polish Filmmakers Association, and currently – Board member of the Polish Audiovisual Producers Chamber of Commerce. Between 2006 and 2010 – Artistic Director of the Polish Film Festival in Gdynia.

During his work he supervised the production of ca. 120 feature and documentary films.

Between 1987 and 2005, as a theatre director he staged numerous plays by William Shakspeare, Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Woody Allen, Akos Kertesz, Markus Kobela, Aleksander Fredro and Władysław Terlecki in various Polish theatres as well as in the Television Theatre.

Selected filmography

Documentary films
1987: Smród (screenplay and directing)
1999: Pomiędzy narodami (screenplay and directing)
2000: Złoto carów (co-directing with Małgorzatą Buzdką)
2009: PO-LIN, okruchy pamięci / PO-LIN. Scraps of Memory (producer)

Feature films and series

1989: Konsul / The Consul – feature debut (screenplay and directing)
1998: Cudze szczęście (screenplay and directing)
2000: Duża przerwa – comedy series (co-writer and producer)
2001: Dwie miłości – TV feature film (co-writer and producer)
2003-2006: Pensjonat pod Różą – TV series (screenplay, directing and producer)

Film awards

1988: Smród (Grand Prix at the 5. Young Polish Cinema Festival)
1989: The Consul (Silver Shell for the best director at the 37. MFF in San Sebastian)
1989: The Consul (Nagroda Szefa Kinematografii Award for the best debut)
1999: Cudze szczęście (UNDA award at the Monte Carlo Film Festival)

  • “Mom Is Going Back” Awarded at the 23rd Uhvati Film Festival in Serbia and Croatia

  • Mikołaj Janik’s “Mom Is Going Back” got two awards at the 23rd Uhvati Film Festival: Grand Prix at the Novi Sad edition, and Second Prize for Documentary Film in Rijeka, Croatia. Organized in the region of Southern Europe (Novi Sad in Serbia, Rijeka in Croatia, and Kotor in Montenegro) in October and November, the festival features fiction and documentary films presenting themes of disability.

  • “Nothing Serious” and “Such a Perfect Day” in Competition of the 18th Amarcort Film Festival in Italy!

  • “Nothing Serious” by Kamil Czudej and “Such a Perfect Day” by Piotr Pluta will be presented in various competitive sections of the forthcoming 18th Amarcort Film Festival in Rimini, Federico Fellini’s birthplace. The festival held between November 25th – 30th, will show “Nothing Serious” in the Student Films category, while “Such a Perfect Day” – in the Titta category dedicated to films on parent-child relationship.

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