Ewa Puszczyńska, Head of Extreme Emotions studio, which she founded ten years ago, has several highly-acclaimed films to her credit, including this year’s Oscar winner, Jonathan Glazer’s The Zone of Interest and two Paweł Pawlikowski’s productions: Ida, which won an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, and Oscar-nominated Cold War.
At present, Puszczyńska is working again with Pawlikowski on the thriller The Island, starring Joaquin Phoenix and Rooney Mara, and is in pre-production on Peter Webber’s upcoming biopic Irena Sendler, about the Polish wartime hero who saved several hundred children from the Warsaw Ghetto during World War II.
The other Pole in the Hollywood Reporter list is Kasia Malipan. Based in London, she is known for such films as Sean Durkin’s The Nest, starring Jude Law and Carrie Coon. As a freelance producer for Ireland’s Element Pictures, she worked on Yorgos Lanthimos’ Poor Things, which won the Golden Lion in Venice, five BAFTAs and four Oscars, as well as on Lanthimos’ latest movie Kinds of Kindness, which is premiered at the current Cannes Festival.
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Source: The Hollywood Reporter