Mateusz Pacewicz
{{Short description|Polish screenwriter (born 1992)}}
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Mateusz Pacewicz (born 21 June 1992, Warsaw) is a Polish award-winning screenwriter and film director.{{cite news|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm9946633/ |title=Mateusz Pacewicz |access-date=14 April 2020}}
Life and career
He is a graduate of the Inter-area Individual Humanistic and Social Studies (MISH) of the University of Warsaw. In 2017, he wrote the script and directed Heat (in collaboration with Agata Trzebuchowska), a short film nominated for The Short Film Grand Jury Prize at Sundance Film Festival.{{cite news|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm9946633/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm |title=Mateusz Pacewicz. Biography |access-date=14 April 2020}} In 2019, he received the Best Screenplay Award for Jan Komasa's Academy Award-nominated film Corpus Christi at the 44th Gdynia Film Festival.{{cite news|url=https://kultura.onet.pl/film/wiadomosci/44-fpff-w-gdyni-agnieszka-holland-laureatka-zlotych-lwow-laureaci/fj5qlg9 |title=44. Festiwal Polskich Filmów Fabularnych w Gdyni: Złote Lwy dla "Obywatela Jonesa" Agnieszki Holland! Oto pozostali laureaci |access-date=14 April 2020}} He also won two Polish Film Awards for Best Screenplay as well as the Discovery of the Year Award for Corpus Christi.{{cite news|url=https://culture.pl/pl/tworca/mateusz-pacewicz |title=Mateusz Pacewicz |access-date=14 April 2020}} In 2020, he was also nominated for the Paszport Polityki Award in the film category.{{cite news|url=https://ksiazka.net.pl/paszporty-polityki-2020-lista-nominowanych-w-siedmiu-kategoriach |title=Paszporty polityki 2020 lista nominowanych w siedmiu kategoriach |access-date=14 April 2020}}
In 2020, he wrote the screenplay to another film directed by Komasa The Hater, a spin-off of the 2011 drama film Suicide Room.{{cite news|url=https://culture.pl/pl/tworca/mateusz-pacewicz |title=Mateusz Pacewicz |access-date=14 April 2020}}
Personal life
He was born on 21 June 1992 in Warsaw to father Piotr Pacewicz and mother Alicja.{{cite news|url=https://www.filmpolski.pl/fp/index.php?osoba=11159107 |title=Mateusz Pacewicz |access-date=14 April 2020}} When asked about his inspirations in an interview, he named the New Testament, Hermann Broch's The Tempter, René Girard's The Scapegoat and Carlo Ginzburg's The Cheese and the Worms as the books which influenced his work.{{cite news|url=https://tvn24.pl/kultura-i-styl/mateusz-pacewicz-scenarzysta-bozego-ciala-o-swych-literackich-inspiracjach-xiegarnia-3863403 |title="Skłonność do podążania za charyzmatycznymi liderami". Scenarzysta "Bożego Ciała" o książkowych inspiracjach |access-date=14 April 2020}}
Filmography
- Heat, 2017 (co-directed with Agata Trzebuchowska)
- Corpus Christi, 2019 (screenplay)
- The Hater, 2020 (screenplay)
See also
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