Jakub Pączek >> Born in 1984, in Kraków. Graduate of the film directing at the Krzysztof Kieślowski Film School in Katowice, Poland and the History of Church at the Pontifical Academy of Theology in Kraków. He has also studied History of Art.

He directed several short films based on his own scripts, among them the awarded "The Washing Machine", and the wordwidely acclaimed one-minute short on the cultural importance of the toilet paper, titled "Rolls of Identity". International premiere of his last documentary, entitled "The Best Chicks on the Train" took place during the International Student Film and Video Festival in Beijing Film Academy, China.

Jakub participated in the Screenwriting Lab 2009 (Poland) and the Breaking Shorts Campus 2009 in Nijmegen (Holland). In 2010 he recieved City of Krakow Scholarship for the Young Artists and in 2011 Award of the Rector of the Silesian University for Outstanding Students.

His graduation film titled "The A Side" had its premiere on the CAMERIMAGE 2011. At the moment he is finishing postproduction of his thirty minute professional debut "The 128th Rat", which he also wrote (premiere in 2012).

>> prizes for my films

2008 - The Washing Machine - jury prize on the ORANGE FACTOR FILM FESTIVAL Kraków, Poland

2008 - The Washing Machine - 1st prize in the category of student films on the GOFFR FF Gliwice, Poland

2009 - The Washing Machine - 1st prize for the short film on the Polish Comedy Films Festival SAMI SWOI 2009 Lubomierz, Poland

2009 - The Washing Machine - audience prize RePeFeNe FF 2009 Rybnik, Poland

2009 - The Washing Machine - prize for the best student film on the Kult OFF Kino festival organized by TVP Kultura, Poland

2009 - Rolls of Identity - jury special mention on the Festival of Unserious Films "Nakręceni" Bełchatów, Poland

2010 - Rolls of Identity - prize in the Polish final and a nomination to semi-finals of the DEMOCRACY VIDEO CHALLENGE, USA

2010 - City of Krakow Scholarship for the Young Artists

2010 - Rolls of Identity - 2nd prize on the AZYL FF Bratyslava, Slovakia

2010 - nomination in the competition Seven Diamonds of My City of the MMKRAKOW.PL website

2011 - nominated for the Independent Cinema's Discovery of the Year Award, founded by STOPKLATKA.PL and KINO POLSKA TV, for the film Rolls of Identity

2011 - Rolls of Identity - honorable mention in the FREE SUBJECT competition and the MINUTE TROPHY on the ONE MINUTE FILM FESTIVAL BRAZIL, Brazil

2011 - Rolls of Identity - 1st prize in the category of documentary films on the SNAP FILM festival, Kraków, Poland

2011 - The Washing Machine - prize for the best use of cinematic knowledge on the KAMERA AKCJA festival, Łódź, Poland

2011 - Rolls of Identity - MINUTE D'OR - BEST OF THE FESTIVAL AWARD on the ONE MINUTE FILM AND VIDEO FESTIVAL, Toronto, Canada

2011 - The Washing Machine - prize for the best student fiction film on the KolorOFFon film festival, Bydgoszcz Poland

2011 - Rolls of Identity - 2nd prize - silver medal on the CROMINUTE film festival, Pozega, Croatia

2011 - Award of the Rector of the Silesian University for Outstanding Students

2011 - Rolls of Identity - Jury Prize on the FilmOneFest, Atlantic Highlands NJ, USA

2012 - The Best Chicks on the Train - 4th prize on the RAILFILM Fest, Austria