MICHAŁ BIELAWSKI

The director of "1989". Graduate of the Humanities Dept. at the University of Warsaw. Since 2005 he collaborates with the TVP Kultura channel, for several years co-worked with Planete Doc Review film festival in Warsaw. Author of many television reportages and television interviews. In 2011, his television program “One Scene” – interviews with accomplished Polish filmmakers, was nominated for the Polish Film Institute Prize and the Grand Press Prize. His areas of interest include forgotten episodes of the “great” history and rediscovering their sense and meaning. He has been working on a historical novel “The Real End of War” which links the post-war Poland and martial law Poland. Documentary “Mundial. The Highest Stakes” is his directorial debut.