Director Maciej J. Drygas is a renowned film and radio director, screenwriter, producer, and professor at the Polish National Film School in Łódź. His works have received numerous prestigious awards, including the European Film Academy Award for Best Documentary for “Hear My Cry” (1991), the Prix Italia for the radio documentary “Last Will” (1992), the Grand Prix at the Monte Carlo International Television Festival for “State of Weightlessness” (1995), and the award for Best Feature-Length Documentary at the Cinema Verité festival in Tehran for “Abu Haraz” (2013). His films and radio documentaries have been broadcast across Europe, as well as in Canada, Japan, Brazil, South Africa, New Caledonia, and Australia.

“There is a kind of filmmaker who trusts that the truth is already out there — buried in basements, sealed in government vaults, spooled onto forgotten reels of film — and that the job is simply to find it, free it, and let it speak. Maciej Drygas is that kind of filmmaker, and for more than three decades, he has been doing exactly that with a precision and moral seriousness that places him among the most important documentary filmmakers working in Europe today…American audiences are only now beginning to encounter his work, and the timing could not be better.” —Film Threat