Marcel Łoziński (born 17 May 1940, Paris) is a Polish film director and screenwriter. He has directed 22 films since 1972. He earned his degree in Film Directing from Łódź Film School. He has made a number of excellent documentaries, which include The Visit (1974), Front Collision (1975), How to Live (1977), Microphone’s Test (1980), Practice Exercises (1984), Anything Can Happen (1995), So It Doesn’t Hurt (1998), How It’s Done (2006). He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short for 89mm from Europe (1993). Since 1995, member of the American Academy of Motion Picture Art and Science awarding Oscars. Lectured at FEMIS film school and the School of Polish Culture of the Warsaw University; ran documentary film workshops in Marseilles. Since 2005 he has been the head of the documentary programme at the Andrzej Wajda Master School of Film Directing. Łoziński's main focus of interest lies in the everyday life of ordinary people; when observing them it is not sensation he is searching for but the essence of the matter, the mystery.
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