Jarosław "Jarek" Kupść (born December 26, 1966) is a Polish-American film director and screen writer.
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He started shooting films at the age of sixteen in his native Poland. In 1985, he left Poland for Greece, where he studied Byzantine icon painting and worked as a freelance cartoonist.[1] He emigrated to the United States in 1987 and became a naturalized citizen in 1992. He graduated from San Francisco State University in 1995 with a degree in writing/directing, while carrying on a career as a graphic artist. In 1998, Kupść wrote and illustrated a film history book, The History of Cinema for Beginners.
Kupść made his directorial debut with Recoil which was awarded Best Feature Film at Woodstock Film Festival in 2001.[2] He followed with a road movie in 2006 titled Slumberland which won the Special Jury Prize at the Gdynia Film Festival[3]
His 2008 feature, The Reflecting Pool, was one of the first narrative films dealing with the investigation of the September 11th attacks,[4][5][6]
After returning to Poland in 2010, he wrote and directed Kliny (Wedges) and began his association with the Warsaw Film School in Warsaw, Poland.[7] His last film to date is the award-winning Quintuplets,[8] shot on a mobile phone.
Jarek Kupść' film and art essays have been published by Little White Lies[9] and other magazines.
Year | Title | Role | Awards |
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2019 | Quintuplets | Director, Screenwriter, Producer, Cinematographer (as Yaro Ghillis) | Best Feature Film – SmartFone3 Film Festival,[10] Best Mobile Film, Best Actor – L'Age d'Or International Arthouse FF, Best Mobile Film, Best Director – Tagore International FF |
2015 | Kliny | Director, Screenwriter, Producer, Cinematographer | |
2008 | The Reflecting Pool | Director, Screenwriter | Columbine Award, Moondance Film Festival;[11] Special Jury Prize, Polish Film Festival in America (Chicago)[12] |
2006 | Slumberland | Director, Screenwriter, Producer | Special Jury Prize, Gdynia Film Festival;[13] Young Screenwriter, YFF[14] |
2001 | Recoil | Director, Screenwriter, Producer | Best Feature Film, Woodstock Film Festival;[15] Best First Feature, Wine Country Film Festival;[16] Best First Feature, Dahlonega Film Festival |
1995 | Dog | Director, Screenwriter, Cinematographer | Rosebud Award for Best Student Film, CSA Film Festival[17] |