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Director and screenwriter

Olga Chajdas

Her acclaimed debut "Nina" won many awards including: VPRO Big Screen Award at the Rotterdam International Film Festival. She has worked on such series as "Wataha" and "1983." In 2023, the film "IMAGO" premiered at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival. The film was awarded the FIPRESCI PRIZE - The International Critic Prize. It had its Polish premiere at the New Horizons Festival in Wroclaw and was was awarded Silver Lions at the 48th Polish Film Festival in Gdynia.

About me

Born in 1983 in Poznan, Poland. Director, screenwriter and producer, founder of Wild Mouse Production. Graduated in film production from the Film School in Łódź. She worked as a 1st AD on many feature films and television series (including Agnieszka Holland’s Oscar nominated IN DARKNESS). She has directed for theatre, including Edward Albee’s THE GOAT OR WHO IS SYLVIA and Tuvia Tenenbom’s THE LAST JEW IN EUROPE. Her short film MORNING HAS BROKEN (2017) opened at Raindance, while 3XLOVE (2016) won the Grand Prix at Distances Short Film Festival in Dublin. Her feature debut NINA (2018) premiered at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, winning the VPRO Big Screen Award, as well as the Polish Film Competition at Camerimage and best film in Visions Apart Competition at Gdynia Film Festival. In 2018 she became one of four women to direct the first Polish Netflix original series 1983. She directed the third season of the HBO’s THE BORDER, which brought her the Polish Film Academy Award in 2020. Throughout the years she directed number of awarding winning TV shows, amongst which THE DEEP END (Winner of Gold Plaque at the Chicago International Film Festival and Prix Europa at the Prix Italia awards). She was a formatting director for TVPs THE SEER (ZA MARZENIA) and together with Kasia Adamik created Netflix Original dramatic series CRACOW MONSTERS. Together with Kasia Adamik, Anna Jadowska, Anna Kazejak and Jagoda Szelc she directed the first Polish feature for Netflix EROTICA 2022 (Special Mention at Ischia Film Festival). In July 2023 her second feature film IMAGO opened in Karlovy Vary International Film Festival winning the Fipresci Award and Silver Lions at the Polish Film Festival in Gdynia. She’s currently in post production of a German-Luxembourg-Belgian historical series for Arte and SWR A WORLD DIVIDED and in production of France TV/RAI/ZDF series KABUL. Her new project GRANDPA, LET’S GO will start shooting in June 2024.

Date of birth:

05.02.1983

Education:

A fictional course at the Andrzej Wajda Master School of Film Directing (2009), Film Art Organization Department, PWSFTviT in Łódź (2006), Academy of Film and Television in Warsaw (2003)

Artistic achievements

Artistic achievements

2025

"Grandpa, let's go"

Furia Film

2024

"Kabul"

France.TV

2023

"Imago"

Apple Film Production

2022

"Mój Agent"

TVN

2022

"Cracow Monsters"

Netflix

2020

"Erotica 2022"

Netflix

2019

"Wataha" season 3

HBO

2019

"Mr. Jones" (II Unit)

Film Produkcja

2018

"1983"

Netflix

2018

"Nina"

Film It

2018

"Za marzenia"

TVP

2017

"Ultraviolet"

AXN

2017

"Kobieta budzi się rano"

Wild Mouse Production

2017

"Amok"

K&K Selekt Film

2015

"3xMIŁOŚĆ"

Wild Mouse Production

2015

"Savage Grace"

TVP

2014

"Wataha"

HBO

2013

"Głęboka woda 2"

TVP

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Awards

Awards

2023

"IMAGO" - FIPRESCI PRIZE - The International Critic Prize - at the 2023 Karlolve Vary Festival.

"Imago" - Silver Lions - 48. Polish Feature Film Festival in Gdynia

2023

“Imago” - Dominika Kulczyk and dFlights award in Polish Feature Film Competition - Mastercard OFF Camera.

2024

2020

"Wataha" - Polska Nagroda Filmowa Orzeł w kategorii: Najlepszy filmowy serial telewizyjny

2019

"Kobieta budzi się rano" - Nagroda dla najlepszego reżysera na Oakland Short Film Festival -

2019

"Kobieta budzi się rano" - Short Film Festival "Oddalenia", Dublin, Grand Prix

2019

"Nina" - Nagroda Główna "Złoty Debiut" na festiwalu Babie Lato Filmowe

2018

"Nina" – Złoty Pazur w konkursie Inne Spojrzenie na Festiwalu Polskich Filmów Fabularnych w Gdyni

2018

"Nina" – Baltic Film Competition za reżyserię na Międzynarodowym Festiwalu Filmowym Carl w Karlskronie

2018

"Nina" – Big Screen Competition na IFFR 2018

2018

"Nina" - VPRO Big Screen Award na Międzynarodowym Festiwalu Filmowy

2018

"Nina" – Główna Nagroda w Konkursie Filmów Polskich na Festiwalu Camerimage

2016

"3xLOVE" - Los Angeles Independent Film Festival Award, Best Ensemble Cast

2016

"3xLOVE" - Los Angeles Independent Film Festival Award, Best Woman Filmmaker

2016

"3xLOVE" - California Women’s Film Festival, Best Foreign Film

2016

"3xLOVE" - Los Angeles Independent Film Festival Award, Best Ensemble Cast

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