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MALGORZATA SZUMOWSKA, born in 1973 to acclaimed journalist and author Dorota Terakowska and filmmaker and journalist Maciej Szumowski, is one of Poland's most interesting young filmmakers. She has been a member of The European Film Academy since 2001. Her short film Silence (1997) received eighteen international awards and is listed among the Lodz Film School's fifteen best shorts of all time. Her first feature, A Happy Man (2000), screened at festivals worldwide and was named one of Variety's "ten best films by young European directors." Time called Szumowska "a person to watch." In 2005 she was nominated for the European "Felix" award for her second film Stranger (Ono, 2004). Szumowska's 33 Scenes from Life (2008), which dealt with the passing of both her parents, garnered a Special Jury Prize at Locarno. She was one of twenty four directors on Lars Von Trier's project Visions of Europe (2004), alongside Peter Greenaway, Fatih Akin, Aki Kaurismaki and Bela Tarr. In 2009, she co-produced Von Trier's controversial Antichrist. Her newest film is called Nowhere.
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