Piotr Dumala

Born in 1956 in Warsaw. Screenwriter, creator of artistic design, animator, and cartoon and combined film director, screenwriter and feature film set designer, teacher, graphic artist, illustrator, author of comic strips and posters, writer, critic, actor. Graduate of the Faculty of Conservation and Restoration of Works of Art (diploma in the studio of stone sculpture conservation) at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. He made his debut in 1976 with the étude The Metamorphosis; he is a director of numerous animations such as A Gentle Creature (1985), Wolność nogi (1988), Franz Kafka (1991), Crime and Punishment (2000) and Las shown at the 2009 NH Festival, a feature film with actors and animation. He uses a traditional stroke, and a plaster panel technique he invented by himself. He also makes commercial animations, title sequences of TV series and programmes, commercials and video clips. As a teacher, he gives classes on animation in the Łódź Polish National Film, Television and Theatre School; previously, he gave lectures at the Faculty of Animation in Konstfack (Sweden) and Harvard University (USA). —Stowarzyszenie Nowe Horyzonty