About

Born in 1968 in Warsaw, Poland, and raised in Switzerland, Greg Zglinski studied film at the National Academy for Film, Television, and Theatre in Łódź, Poland, where he was a student of Krzysztof Kieslowski. His artistic education also includes training at a pantomime and acting school in Switzerland and English studies in Australia. Zglinski has held diverse roles in film production, working as a producer, cameraman, film and sound editor, and composer for short films. Additionally, he played guitar and bass in several rock bands. From 2005 to 2009, he served on the Swiss film commission “Zürcher Filmstiftung.”

Zglinski’s work has garnered international acclaim, including the Swiss Film Prize for Best Feature in 2005 and both the SIGNIS and CinemAvvenire Awards at the 61st Venice Film Festival for his Swiss-Belgian debut feature, Tout un hiver sans feu (All Winter Without Fire), which was Switzerland’s official entry to the 2006 Oscars. His second feature film, Wymyk (Courage), won numerous festival awards in Vilnius, Gdynia, and Warsaw and received a nomination for the Polish Film Award Eagles for Best Script. His third feature film Tiere (Animals) premiered at the Berlinale in 2017.

In television, Zglinski was a co-creator and lead director of the award-winning Polish Series The Londoners and the acclaimed crime dramas Paradoks and Zbrodnia (The Crime), the latter being the first European TV series produced by AXN (Sony Pictures). For Sony Pictures he also directed the last four episodes of the third season of the American Series Absentia.