Zbigniew Bzymek

Born in 1976 in Warsaw, Bzymek studied at the Łódź Film School and Bowdoin College in Maine. He directed several shorts, such as Passivity (Bierność), which screened at the first Polish LGBT Polish film festival, Subwersja in 2007, and Suddenly Forever (Nagle na zawsze), for which he received the Grand Prix du jury at the Festival Rencontres Internationales Henri Langlois in Poitiers in 2008. As an author, he worked with theatre director Krystian Lupa and Elizabeth LeCompte. He is an associate artist at the New York Wooster Group with which he produced the space vampire opera, La Didone. Utopians is his feature film debut.