Known for

Directing

Place of birth

Warsaw, Poland

Maciek Hamela

Maciek Hamela is a Polish film and radio producer, director, scriptwriter. Born in Warsaw, Poland, he received a master's degree from Sorbonne University (Paris IV) in French literature and studied film directing at École Internationale de Création Audiovisuelle et de Réalisation (EICAR). Director and producer of a feature documentary "In the Rearview" that screened at Cannes Film Festival and TIFF and won main prizes at Sheffield DocFest, Zurich Film Festival and Hamburg FilmFest. A co-creator of a documentary short film "Bless You", which received a Doc Alliance Award within the Cannes Docs program (Cannes FF 2021). He produced films such as "Convictions" (MDR Film Prize for an outstanding Eastern European documentary film at Dok Leipzig IFF 2016), "Gatherers of Sea Grass" or "Parquet". Being a director and a producer of various radio works he has received the Silver Melchior Radio Award for the Premiere of the Year 2018 in the Polish Radio Reporters National Competition. He produced and co-directed "Plan B", a documentary podcast series for Audioteka.

Titles

My Wife's Romance

Movie • 2011

Klondike

Movie • 2022

Francuski numer

Movie • 2006

In the Rearview

Movie • 2023

The Broken Tower

Movie • 2012

Loneliness in the Net

Movie • 2006

Parquet

Movie • 2021

Crash Test Aglae

Movie • 2017

Raging Rose

Movie • 2015

Convictions

Movie • 2016

The Day of Chocolate

Movie • 2018