Mateusz Pacewicz

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Mateusz Pacewicz
Born (1992-06-21) 21 June 1992 (age 31)
Warsaw, Poland
Alma mater University of Warsaw
Occupations
  • Screenwriter
  • filmmaker
Years active2015–present

Mateusz Pacewicz (born 21 June 1992, Warsaw) is a Polish award-winning screenwriter and film director. [1]

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Life and career

He is a graduate of the Inter-area Individual Humanistic and Social Studies (MISH) of the University of Warsaw. In 2017, he wrote the script and directed Heat (in collaboration with Agata Trzebuchowska), a short film nominated for The Short Film Grand Jury Prize at Sundance Film Festival. [2] In 2019, he received the Best Screenplay Award for Jan Komasa's Academy Award-nominated film Corpus Christi at the 44th Gdynia Film Festival. [3] He also won two Polish Film Awards for Best Screenplay as well as the Discovery of the Year Award for Corpus Christi. [4] In 2020, he was also nominated for the Paszport Polityki Award in the film category. [5]

In 2020, he wrote the screenplay to another film directed by Komasa The Hater , a spin-off of the 2011 drama film Suicide Room. [6]

Personal life

He was born on 21 June 1992 in Warsaw to father Piotr Pacewicz and mother Alicja. [7] When asked about his inspirations in an interview, he named the New Testament , Hermann Broch's The Tempter, René Girard's The Scapegoat and Carlo Ginzburg's The Cheese and the Worms as the books which influenced his work. [8]

Filmography

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