Gosia Juszczak
Polish documentary director based in Spain, a graduate of the DOK PRO – documentary directing course at the Wajda Film School in Warsaw, Poland. In her documentary work, Gosia focuses on issues of social importance, migration and borders. Her last documentary, “Stolen Fish”, was ranked by “VICE Magazine” as one of the 10 most radical films to see at Sheffield Doc/Fest and received a Special Mention at the Afrykamera Film Festival “for a brilliant presentation of the complexity of the issues of globalization, environment and migration in a nutshell, as well as for a complete departure from the pro-Western perspective.” Selected for the Oscar®-qualifying Doc Edge Film Festival (New Zealand) and MiradasDoc (Spain), among 23 other film festivals. Her short documentary "Videonotes: Ethnoligue", portraying a multicultural amateur football league, was nominated to the "Off Discovery of the Year" award by Polish film portal “Stopklatka”. “The Cargo Women of Melilla”, a take on a slave-like work of Moroccan women on the Southern EU border, was showcased within the Novara Docs series. Apart from her filmmaking career, Gosia is a journalist, translator and public speaker as former Human Rights observer in the Middle East. As a journalist she wrote about such underreported issues as the evictions of Kenya's indigenous Sengwer community or the struggle of the Nubian minority in Kenya. https://storyhunter.com/gosia-juszczak