DIRECTING SHOWREEL

Aleksandra Czenczek directing showreel
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SELECTED WORKS

RECENT PROJECTS
Selvedge film still
laurels
  • PROMOTING FEMALE
  • EXCELLENCE IN DIRECTION
  • 225 Film Club / BFI 2024
laurels
Dope Girls film still
  • SELVEDGE (2024)
  • 11min sci-fi. (Director)
  • In a future where prejudice has forced mixed-species families to flee their homes, a daughter tries to reunite with her father by breaking down the barrier that separates them.
  • Official Selection '225 Film Club' / BFI screening, 2024.
  • DOPE GIRLS (2024)
  • TV Series. (Splinter Unit Director)
  • Upcoming six-part historical drama television series based on the non-fiction book Dope Girls: The Birth of the British Drug Underground (1992) by Marek Kohn, developed by Bad Wolf in association with Sony Pictures Television for BBC One.
COMMERCIAL & FASHION
Stella
Ladies of Vogue
  • STELLA McCARTNEY SPEC COMMERCIAL (2021)
  • 1min, commercial/fashion.
  • In pursuit of of animal-free fashion..
  • 10th Social Awareness Ads Festival, Ukraine
  • Buenos Aires International Film Festival, Argentina
  • LADIES OF VOGUE (2020)
  • 4min, commercial / fashion.
  • Inspired by world of fashion and the famous 100 year anniversary US Vogue cover, London’s top drag queens gather for a group portrait.
  • Official Selection, Sarajevo Fashion Film festival 2020
  • Official Selection, Darkroom Film Festival 2021
  • Project promoted by Vogue Italia

SHORT FILMS

Tunnel still
laurels
  • MONTHLY WINNER
  • Micro-short Drama
  • Berlin Flash Film Fest 2021
laurels
Remind Me Yesterday film still
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  • 2nd PLACE WINNER
  • Raindance
  • One Minute Competition
laurels
  • TUNNEL (2021)
  • 1min, drama.
  • Walking through the empty tunnel broken images of disturbing forest scene flash in front of a woman's eyes.
  • Produced by BAFTA Crew 2021 team.
  • Official Selection, 225 Film Club, BFI screening 2022.
  • Official Selection, Porto Femme Festival 2022.
  • Monthly Winner, Micro-Short Drama, Berlin Flash Film Festival 2021.
  • Micro Short Films
  •  
  • REMIND ME YESTERDAY (2021)
  • 1min, sci-fi.
  • The world was once a beautiful place but all that’s left is a memory of an idyllic past.
  • Produced by BAFTA Crew 2021 team.
  • 2nd Place Winner in Raindance One Minute Twist Competition. Official Selection Raindance 2021.
  • Monthly Winner, Micro-Short Sci-Fi, Berlin Flash Film Festival 2021.
  • Distributed by Filmzie
  • Micro Short Films
  •  
Ripples film still
laurels
  • BRONZE AWARD
  • Emigra FIlm Festival
  • Warsaw 2018
laurels
Humans
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  • OFFICIAL SELECTION
  • Aesthetica Film Festival
  • 2021
laurels
  • RIPPLES (2017)
  • 6min, drama.
  • Beauty comes in all shapes and sizes.
  • BRONZE AWARD, Emigra FIlm Festival, Warsaw
  • Festival screenings in UK, USA, Poland, Germany, Mexico, Spain and Taiwan
  • HUMANS (2021)
  • 8min, art /experimental.
  • In an imagined near future, humans have lost their ability to feel, touch and smell, but the once-human mannequins still have memories of what life was like before.
  • Official Selection, In The Palace International Film Festival 2022
  • Official Selection, Aesthetica Film Festival 2021
  • 19th International Festival Signs of the Night in Berlin.
  • 17th Athens Digital Arts Festival.
Last Day of Summer film still
laurels
  • BEST PERFORMANCE
  • Young Artist
  • Academy Awards 2018
laurels
Brothers film still
laurels
  • FINALIST
  • Sundance London
  • 2014
laurels
  • LAST DAY OF SUMMER (2017)
  • 14min, drama. (Writer/Director)
  • A elderly woman suffering from dementia befriends a young boy.
  • REMI AWARD, Worldfest Houston, US
  • BEST PERFORMANCE IN A SHORT FILM, Young Artist Academy Awards, Los Angeles
  • AFRODITE AWARD, BEST INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM, Rome
  • Festival screenings in Bulgaria, Canada, France, Jordan, Poland, Indonesia, Spain, South Korea, UK and US.
  • BROTHERS (2014)
  • 5min, drama.
  • On a short bus journey two men rediscover the true meaning of what is to be brothers.
  • FINALIST, Sundance London Short Film Competition
  • BEST NARRATIVE SHORT FILM, Festival de Cortos y Salud Mental, Spain
  • BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY, 'Seize the Film!', Croatia
  • SPECIAL JURY MENTION, Emigra Film Festival, Warsaw
  • SPECIAL JURY MENTION, Enmut Festival, Barcelona
  • BEST MUSIC AWARD, Palena Film Award, Italy
  • Festival screenings in Canada, Columbia, Germany, Portugal, Mexico, Russia and Spain.

SELECTED WORKS

RECENT PROJECTS

Selvedge film still
laurels
  • PROMOTING FEMALE
  • EXCELLENCE IN DIRECTION
  • 225 Film Club / BFI 2024
laurels
  • SELVEDGE (2024)
  • 11min sci-fi. (Director)
  • In a future where prejudice has forced mixed-species families to flee their homes, a daughter tries to reunite with her father by breaking down the barrier that separates them.
  • Official Selection '225 Film Club' / BFI screening, 2024.
  • PLAY CLIP
Dope Girls film still
  • DOPE GIRLS (2024)
  • TV Series. (Splinter Unit Director)
  • Upcoming six-part historical drama television series based on the non-fiction book Dope Girls: The Birth of the British Drug Underground (1992) by Marek Kohn, developed by Bad Wolf in association with Sony Pictures Television for BBC One.
  • PLAY CLIP

COMMERCIAL&FASHION

Stella
  • STELLA McCARTNEY SPEC COMMERCIAL (2021)
  • 1min, commercial/fashion.
  • In pursuit of of animal-free fashion..
  • 10th Social Awareness Ads Festival, Ukraine
  • Buenos Aires International Film Festival, Argentina
  • PLAY CLIP
Ladies of Vogue
  • LADIES OF VOGUE (2020)
  • 4min, commercial / fashion.
  • Inspired by world of fashion and the famous 100 year anniversary US Vogue cover, London’s top drag queens gather for a group portrait.
  • Official Selection, Sarajevo Fashion Film festival 2020
  • Official Selection, Darkroom Film Festival 2021
  • Project promoted by Vogue Italia
  •  
  • PLAY CLIP

SHORT FILMS

Tunnel still
laurels
  • MONTHLY WINNER
  • Micro-short Drama
  • Berlin Flash Film Fest 2021
laurels
  • TUNNEL (2021)
  • 1min, drama.
  • Walking through the empty tunnel broken images of disturbing forest scene flash in front of a woman's eyes.
  • Produced by BAFTA Crew 2021 team.
  • Official Selection, 225 Film Club, BFI screening 2022.
  • Official Selection, Porto Femme Festival 2022.
  • Monthly Winner, Micro-Short Drama, Berlin Flash Film Festival 2021.
  • Micro Short Films
  •  
  • PLAY CLIP
Remind Me Yesterday film still
laurels
  • 2nd PLACE WINNER
  • Raindance
  • One Minute Competition
laurels
  • REMIND ME YESTERDAY (2021)
  • 1min, sci-fi.
  • The world was once a beautiful place but all that’s left is a memory of an idyllic past.
  • Produced by BAFTA Crew 2021 team.
  • 2nd Place Winner in Raindance One Minute Twist Competition. Official Selection Raindance 2021.
  • Monthly Winner, Micro-Short Sci-Fi, Berlin Flash Film Festival 2021.
  • Distributed by Filmzie
  • Micro Short Films
  •  
  • PLAY CLIP
Ripples film still
laurels
  • BRONZE AWARD
  • Emigra FIlm Festival
  • Warsaw 2018
laurels
  • RIPPLES (2017)
  • 5min, drama.
  • Beauty comes in all shapes and sizes.
  • BRONZE AWARD, Emigra FIlm Festival, Warsaw
  • Festival screenings in UK, USA, Poland, Germany, Mexico, Spain and Taiwan
  • VOD at Fabulosis Films
  • PLAY CLIP
Humans
laurels
  • OFFICIAL SELECTION
  • Aesthetica Film Festival
  • 2021
laurels
  • HUMANS (2021)
  • 8min, art/experimental
  • Official Selection, In The Palace International Film Festival 2022
  • Official Selection, Aesthetica Film Festival 2021
  • 19th International Festival Signs of the Night in Berlin
  • 17th Athens Digital Arts Festival.
  • In an imagined near future, humans have lost their ability to feel, touch and smell, but the once-human mannequins still have memories of what life was like before
  • PLAY CLIP
Last Day of Summer film still
  • LAST DAY OF SUMMER (2017)
  • 14min, drama. (Writer/Director)
  • A elderly woman suffering from dementia befriends a young boy.
  • REMI AWARD, Worldfest Houston, US
  • BEST PERFORMANCE IN A SHORT FILM, Young Artist Academy Awards, Los Angeles
  • AFRODITE AWARD, BEST INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM, Rome
  • Festival screenings in Bulgaria, Canada, France, Jordan, Poland, Indonesia, Spain, South Korea, UK and US.
  • PLAY CLIP
Brothers film still
laurels
  • FINALIST
  • Sundance London
  • 2014
laurels
  • BROTHERS (2014)
  • 5min, drama.
  • On a short bus journey two men rediscover the true meaning of what is to be brothers.
  • FINALIST, Sundance London Short Film Competition
  • BEST NARRATIVE SHORT FILM, Festival de Cortos y Salud Mental, Spain
  • BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY, 'Seize the Film!', Croatia
  • SPECIAL JURY MENTION, Emigra Film Festival, Warsaw
  • SPECIAL JURY MENTION, Enmut Festival, Barcelona
  • BEST MUSIC AWARD, Palena Film Award, Italy
  • Festival screenings in Canada, Columbia, Germany, Portugal, Mexico, Russia and Spain.
  • PLAY CLIP

ABOUT

Aleksandra is an award winning Director and a Writer. Her credits include the feature film ‘Dolls Can't Cry’ (starring BIFA awarded actress Lara Belmont) along with a series of shorts that have been screened at over 150 film festivals worldwide. These films have won multiple awards including the Young Artist Academy Awards in Los Angeles for Best Performance, 2nd Prize at the Raindance Short Film Competition and a finalist at the Sundance London.

Television directing experience to date includes directing the splinter unit on the upcoming BBC drama ‘Dope Girls’ and VFX sequences for the Amazon TV series ‘Alex Rider S2’.

Alongside this, Aleksandra has background working as VFX Executive Producer and VFX On-set Supervisor on high-end TV series for Netflix, HBO, Amazon, Apple TV+ and BBC. She was awarded an Emmy Award for Outstanding Graphic Design on David Attenborough TV series.

  •    Torino Film Lab NEXT TV Series, 2022
  •    Mentoring scheme ‘Inspire’ with Directors UK (with Miranda Bowen), 2020
  •    National Film and Television School, ‘Directing Series’, 2016
  •    EKRAN+ European film training for writer/directors, Wajda Studio, Poland, 2016
  •    Filmonomics, series of workshops supported by the BFI for female writer/directors, 2016
  •    Sources 2 Script Development Workshop, Norway, 2015
  •    London Film School, Directing Actors (short course), 2009
  •    Masters degree in Cinema and Audiovisual Arts at rsquo;Institut Européen de Cinéma et drsquo;Audiovisuel, Nancy, France, 2001– 2004
  •    Degree at College of Interdisciplinary Humanities Studies, Warsaw University, 1999 – 2001
CINESISTERS

2ND UNIT & VFX WORK

Aleksandra Czenczek directing showreel

EXPERIENCE

I have almost 20 years of experience working in the VFX industry. My credits include both film and high-end TV drama series for Netflix, Amazon Studios, Apple TV, BBC, Sky Studios, ITV. In 2011, together with the team, I won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Graphic Design and Art Direction and we were nominated for further Emmy awards in 2016 and 2017. I also directed 2nd unit on BBC drama Dope Girls and 2nd unit vfx sequences on the Amazon series Alex Rider S2 and Apple TV series The Full Monty.

Credits:

  • Dope Girls (BBC) – 2024 – Splinter Unit Director
  • QTLF (Amazon Studios) – 2024 – VFX Supervisor
  • Gangs of London S3 (Sky TV) – 2024 – On-Set VFX Supervisor
  • Ruth (ITV) – 2024 – On-Set VFX Supervisor / VFX Executive Producer
  • Trigger Point S2 (ITV) - 2024– On-Set VFX Supervisor / VFX Executive Producer
  • The Full Monty (Apple TV) - 2023– On-Set VFX Supervisor / 2nd Unit
  • Outlander (Starz) – 2022– On-Set VFX Supervisor
  • The 355 (Universal) – 2022– On-Set VFX Supervisor
  • Alex Rider S2 (Amazon Studios) – 2021 – On-Set VFX Supervisor / 2nd Unit Director
  • Vigil (Netflix) – 2021 – VFX Compositor
  • Behind Her Eyes (Netflix) – 2021 – On-Set VFX
  • Chernobyl (HBO) – 2019 – VFX Compositor
  • For full listing, see IMDb.
EMMY NOMINATIONS AND AWARDS
  • 2011 – Emmy for Outstanding Graphic Design and Art Direction: ‘First Life with David Attenborough’.
  • 2016 – Emmy Nomination for ‘David Attenborough’s Rise of Animals’.
  • 2017 – Emmy Nomination for ‘Flying Monsters with David Attenborough’.

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