Agnieszka Holland

Polonia,1948.She is a Polish film and television director and screenwriter. Best known for her political contributions to Polish cinema, Holland is one of Poland’s most eminent filmmakers. She began her career as assistant to directors Krzysztof Zanussi and Andrzej Wajda, and emigrated to France shortly before the 1981 imposition of the martial law in Poland. Holland is best known for her films Europa Europa (1991) and her 2011 drama In Darkness, which was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the 84th Academy Awards. In 2017 she received Alfred Bauer Prize (Silver Bear) for her film Spoor at the Berlin International Film Festival.

Interview: Miren Gutiérrez

Miren Gutiérrez is the director of Expert in Analyse, Research and Data Communication Programme and professor of communication at the Deusto University (Spain). She is also the Communications Director of the Climate and Environmental Program of the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) from London. With twenty years of experience as a journalist, editor, correspondent and reporter around the world, she has been the Executive Director of Greenpeace Spain and Editorial Director of the news agency Inter Press Service (IPS).