{"id":180,"date":"2026-03-11T16:29:23","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T15:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poy.koncept404.pl\/index.php\/talents\/bartosz-m-kowalski\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T16:29:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T15:29:23","slug":"bartosz-m-kowalski","status":"publish","type":"poy_talent","link":"https:\/\/poy.koncept404.pl\/bartosz-m-kowalski\/","title":{"rendered":"Bartosz M. Kowalski"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\">Born in Gdynia, sailed to California to graduate in 2007 in the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts in Los Angeles &ndash; USA &#8211; USC\/Universal Studios in the Faculty of Film Production and Film Directing. Graduate of Fine Arts of E\u0301cole Internationale de Cre\u0301ation Audiovisuelle et de Re\u0301alisation in Paris, with a prior preparation in Polish-French college in Gdynia. He graduated with outstanding degree.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">For his debut documentary &bdquo;My Will&rdquo; he was awarded Silver Hobby-Horse in Film Festival in Krakow and Maciej Szumowski Award given for outstanding sensitivity to social issues. &bdquo;My Will&rdquo; has been also awarded in Poznan and Lodz.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">His second film &bdquo;Unstoppables&rdquo;, which tells a story about three members of American football team Seahawks Gdynia, was well received by critics (Award for young talented filmmaker at Polish Film Festival in America).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">His debut feature film &bdquo;Playground&rdquo; was honoured with many awards, including best debutante and Don Quixote (Award of the Polish Federation of Film Society) at Gdynia Film festival, Grand Prix &bdquo;Wielki Jantar&rdquo; at Koszalin Debut Film Festival &quot;Youth and Film&quot; and Best Feature Film Director at Melbourne Monster Fest.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Director and screenwriter of both parts of the horror film &bdquo;Nobody Sleeps in the Woods Tonight&rdquo; released on Netflix. Feature film&nbsp; &quot;Ostatnia wieczerza&quot; | &bdquo;Hellhole&rdquo; directed by Bartosz premiered on Netflix and gained great critics&#039; and viewers&#039; reviews. It&#039;s horror&nbsp; movie set in Polish monastery in 1987, when a police officer investigating mysterious disappearances infiltrates a remote monastery and discovers a dark truth about its clergy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Recent feature film &quot;Cisza nocna&quot; | &quot;Nigh Silence&quot;&nbsp; directed by Bartosz premiered at 49th Polish Film Festival in Gdynia and received Award for Outstanding Artistic Contribution in the &ldquo;Perspectives&rdquo; Competition for &ldquo;outstanding, brilliantly changing, balancing on the border between realism and metaphysics, daring and transcending life and time, role.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Bartosz directed several commercials for prominent clients: Polish Post, Orange, Lotto and Danone to name a few.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/filmpolski.pl\/fp\/index.php?osoba=1175951\">https:\/\/filmpolski.pl\/fp\/index.php?osoba=1175951<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm2305479\/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1\">https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm2305479\/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Agent:&nbsp;Aleksandra Sikora<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">M:&nbsp;+48 502 050 820&nbsp;| aleksandra@pointofyou.com.pl<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Born in Gdynia, sailed to California to graduate in 2007 in the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts in Los Angeles &ndash; USA &#8211; USC\/Universal Studios in the Faculty of Film Production and Film Directing. Graduate of Fine Arts of E\u0301cole Internationale de Cre\u0301ation Audiovisuelle et de Re\u0301alisation in Paris, with a prior [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":5715,"menu_order":24,"template":"","meta":{"_poy_source_id":38,"_poy_source_type":"portfolio","_poy_collaboration":0,"_poy_www":"","_poy_employee":"1","_poy_photo_file":"bartosz_m_kowalski.jpg","_poy_photo_path":"\/Applications\/MAMP\/htdocs\/poy\/uploads\/profilowe\/38\/","_poy_cover_type":1,"_poy_cover_name":"bartosz.jpg","_poy_photo_attachment_id":5715,"_poy_cover_attachment_id":5716,"_poy_custom_link_1":"","_poy_custom_link_2":"","_poy_custom_text_1":"","_poy_custom_text_2":"","footnotes":""},"poy_talent_category":[2],"poy_talent_tag":[],"class_list":["post-180","poy_talent","type-poy_talent","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","poy_talent_category-directors"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poy.koncept404.pl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/poy_talent\/180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poy.koncept404.pl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/poy_talent"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poy.koncept404.pl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/poy_talent"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poy.koncept404.pl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/poy_talent\/180\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poy.koncept404.pl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poy.koncept404.pl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"poy_talent_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poy.koncept404.pl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/poy_talent_category?post=180"},{"taxonomy":"poy_talent_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poy.koncept404.pl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/poy_talent_tag?post=180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}