Andrej Bednarek is a film professor, filmmaker, and Vice-Rector of International Relations at the Polish National Film, Television and Theatre School, Lodz. He pursued a degree in film studies at the Lodz School's Directing Department and went on to work on feature and documentary films and also for Polish public television. Bednarek has directed 25 documentary films and 5 teleplays. Since 1974 he has been teaching film direction and dramaturgy at the Lodz School's Directing and Producing Departments. Since 2001 he has also served as the director of Mediaschool, an international student film festival organized annually by the Lodz Film School.