A graduate of Lodz Film School,
his directorial short debut, Mother (2009),
produced by Wajda Studio, was featured
at over 50 international film festivals
receiving several awards. His feature debut,
Prime Time (2021) premiered at Sundance
(available on Netflix worldwide), followed
by the most recent premiere at Sundance
2023 of the documentary Pianoforte, soon
to be shown in cinemas in the US, Europe
and Japan. Jakub Piątek has been teaching
fiction directing at Lodz Film School since
2021 and is currently working on a fiction
series for Netflix, with shooting scheduled to
start in late 2023.