Wiola Sowa

Director of animated and experimental films. She also makes augmented reality AR and cinematic VR projects. Graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków and the Łódź Film School. Lecturer at the Institute of Media Art of the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. She is a two-time winner of the scholarship of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage, a scholarship of the City of Kraków and a scholarship of the Goethe Institut in Berlin. For her films, she has received over thirty awards, including the Silver Dragon, the Silver Hobby-Horse and the FIPRESCI award for best animated film at the 48th Krakow Film Festival, the International Jury Prize at the 17th International Animation Festival Hiroshima. Her films were screened at the National Gallery of Art Washington D.C., Kosciuszko Foundation in New York, Barbican Centre in London, Centre Pompidou in Paris, Annecy Animation Festival in Annecy, France, London Film Festival in the UK, International Film Festival of The Art of Cinematography CAMERIMAGE in Bydgoszcz, Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art in Warsaw.