Biography
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.
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