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Agnieszka Piotrowska

Lecturer in Media Arts

Agnieszka Piotrowska

I am a BBC trained, award winning documentary filmmaker with substantial experience in broadcast television in the UK and internationally. 

Since winning the Best First Film Prize at the BBC, I have gone on to make a number of award winning films across the channels, including the flagship Channel 4’s strand Cutting Edge. 

My production company Rivercourt Productions has worked extensively with American broadcasters such as Discovery and the National Geographic.

The reviewers have called my films ‘seminal’, ‘groundbreaking’ and ‘visually stunning’. I have collaborated with important artists all over the world and have recently been working with the British Council as a consultant and trainer.

I have also directed theatre and am completing a British Council funded documentary film shot in Zimbabwe in 2011. In the Barbican exhibition in London in 2009 I was named one of 30 most successful artists of Polish origin living in the UK.

With my move from a practitioner to a theoretician, I have presented widely in the last two years at international conferences around the world and am beginning to publish in peer-reviewed journals.

Qualifications

  • BA English and Scandinavian Studies - Hull University
  • MA - University of Reading
  • PhD –Thesis: Psychoanalysis and Ethics in Documentary - Birkbeck College, University of London – to be completed in 2012

Research Interests and possible supervision

  • Psychoanalysis and film, documentary, critical theory and film and culture, gender, psychoanalysis and film, new media and the unconscious

Selected filmography

  • 2012 –(completing) THE ENGAGEMENT PARTY IN HARARE – About post-colonial identities at the International Festival of the Arts in Zimbabwe, funded by the British Council
  • 2012: THE PORTRAIT OF LECH WALESA - A one hour film re-visiting the characters for my first film MEN OF STEEL (BBC1) funded by the European Solidarity Centre
  • 2009: THE BEST JOB IN THE WORLD  (BBC1) The only film documenting the award winning advertising campaign and competition. It was the highest rating programme in the week of its broadcast
  • 2008: MARRIED TO THE EIFFEL TOWER (Channel Five) Cult documentary shown at festivals and channels all over the world. It won a prize at the Extravagant Bodies Festival in Zagreb in 2010. It was also screened at the Freud Museum in November 2011
  • 2007: INSIDE LORD OF THE RINGS THE MUSICAL -  (1 hour PBS/National Geographic)
  • 2007: TRAPPED BY MY TWINS, CUTTING EDGE  - (Channel 4) Nominated for a Broadcast Award
  • 2006: CONMAN WITH 14 WIVES  (Channel Five)
  • 2006: UNDERCOVER COPPER (Channel 4, Dispatches) Nominated for the RTS
  • 2005/2006: THE BIGAMISTS (Sky One) Won the Fred Wiseman Master Class award at the Dublin Film Festival, 2005
  • 2003/2004: RUNNING FOR FREEDOM: Series producer and director (National Geographic) The innovative animated/live action series about London refugees
  • 2000/2001:SELF PORTRAIT: Series producer and director (National Geographic) Won a Special Mention at the European Film Festival in Bardonechia
  • 1999/2000: LOVE HURTS, CUTTING EDGE (Channel 4) nominated for BAFTA
  • 1999/2000: SHOWGIRL STORIES (BBC/Discovery) nominated for EMMY
  • 1996: SEX, LIES AND JERZY KOSINSKI (BBC 2) nominated for EMMY

Contact Details

T: +44 (0)1582 489151
E: agnieszka.piotrowska@beds.ac.uk

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