Sacha Polak (born 1982) is a Dutch film director.
Sacha Polak (born 1982) is a Dutch film director.
In 2012 Polak's feature film debut Hemel played at the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival. Additionally her short Brother and her step-mother Meral Uslu's film on which she was a script supervisor, all played at the festival as well. [1]
In 2014 Polak was initially going to direct the film Vita & Virginia about the love-affair between Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West but was she replaced by Chanya Button. [2]
In 2015 Polak's second film Zurich played at the 65th Berlin International Film Festival. [3]
Polak's next feature film was the movie Dirty God about a woman who sustained facial burns after an acid attack by her ex-partner. [4] This film won her the Golden Calf award for best direction at the 2019 Netherlands Film Festival. [5] The lead actress in the film, Vicky Knight, won a BAFTA Breakthrough Brits award for new talent at the 2019 British Academy of Film and Television Arts awards. [6]
Polak's mother died of breast cancer 11 months after she was born. [7]
Director Meral Uslu is her step-mother.
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