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.
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