Magdalena Piekorz (born 2 October 1974, Sosnowiec) is a Polish film
director, screenwriter as well as film and theatre actress.She
graduated from the Krzysztof Kieślowski Film School of the University
of Silesia in Katowice where she studied film directing. Initially,
she mostly directed documentary films. In 1997, she made her film
debut when she directed the documentary The Girls From Szymanów for
which she received a prize at the Polish Festival of Documentary and
Short Films. Her 1998 film, Franciscan Spontan, dealt with religious
themes and the music for the film was written by Michał Lorenc. Her
2001 film, To Find, To See, To Bury tells the story of the Srebrenica
massacre. In 2002, she directed a documentary TV series Chicago
portraying the life of Polish community in the US state of Illinois.In
2004, she made her feature film debut when she directed Pręgi
("Welts") tackling the issue of domestic violence and based on the
prose of Nike Award-winning author Wojciech Kuczok. The film was
critically acclaimed and won the Golden Lions Award at the 29th Gdynia
Film Festival. It was also selected as the Polish entry for the Best
Foreign Language Film at the 77th Academy Awards.Since 2018, she has
served as the artistic director at the Adam Mickiewicz Theatre in
Częstochowa. Magdalena Piekorz Biography, Weight & Height, Age, Nationality & Ethnicity
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