Kasia Adamik comes from a family of filmmakers. Born in Warsaw, she emigrated to France with her mother in 1982 when the Martial Law was proclaimed in Poland. Adamik studied art in France and Belgium. She worked for many years as a storyboard artist in the US on films and commercials collaborating with directors like Jonathan Demme, Kathryn Bigelow, Luis Mandoki, and Scott Hicks.
Her debut feature film Bark! was in the main dramatic competition at the Sundance Film Festival and won a Best Director mention at the International Warsaw Film Festival. Since then, Adamik directed The Offsiders Audience Award at the Gdynia Film Festival and Amok; and co-directed two films with her mother Agnieszka Holland: Janosik: The True Story and Spoor which won the Silver Bear at the Berlinale. She also directed numerous dramatic television series including the second season of the Amazon Original series Absen
Kasia Adamik comes from a family of filmmakers. Born in Warsaw, she emigrated to France with her mother in 1982 when the Martial Law was proclaimed in Poland. Adamik studied art in France and Belgium. She worked for many years as a storyboard artist in the US on films and commercials collaborating with directors like Jonathan Demme, Kathryn Bigelow, Luis Mandoki, and Scott Hicks.
Her debut feature film Bark! was in the main dramatic competition at the Sundance Film Festival and won a Best Director mention at the International Warsaw Film Festival. Since then, Adamik directed The Offsiders Audience Award at the Gdynia Film Festival and Amok; and co-directed two films with her mother Agnieszka Holland: Janosik: The True Story and Spoor which won the Silver Bear at the Berlinale. She also directed numerous dramatic television series including the second season of the Amazon Original series Absentia for Sony and Amazon Studios; 1983 the first polish language series for Netflix; The Border for HBO, awarded with The Polish Eagle for best series; The Deep End awarded with the Prix Italia for Best European Dramatic Series, Pitbull and many others. Adamik also directed theatre, television theatre, televised Opera performances, music videos, 2nd unit and numerous commercials. She also co-produced Karamazovi, the award-winning film by Petr Zelenka.
Adamik is now developing a feature film adapted from a short novel by the prominent writer and Nobel Prize winner Olga Tokarczuk Professor Andrews in Warsaw, and an anthology film with four other female polish directors Erotica/2022 and has several television projects.
