About
GREG ZGLINSKI
Film Director and Screenwriter
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.
AWARDS
ONE LONG WINTER WITHOUT FIRE
- Grand Prix SIGNIS and CinemAvvenire Award for Best First Feature at the 61st International Film Festival in Venice, Italy 2004
- "Swiss Film Prize" for best Swiss feature film in 2005, Solothurn, Switzerland 2005
- Alternative Critics Award at the 57th Festival in Locarno, Switzerland 2005
- Swiss candidate for the "Oscar" for Best Foreign Language Film of the Year 2006
THE LONDONERS
- Prizes for „Best TV Series” and „Best Supporting Actress” for Natalia Rybicka at Rome Fiction Fest, Italy 2009
- Nomination for "Best TV Series" at the Prix Europa, Berlin, Germany 2009
- Nomination for "Best Producer", "Best Supporting Actor" and "Best Supporting Actress" at the 49th International TV Film Festival in Monte Carlo, Monaco 2009
- Nomination for “Special Prize” at the 61st TV Production Festival “Prix Italia” in Turin, Italy 2009
COURAGE
- Best First or Second feature, Best supporting role and Best screenplay at 36. Polish Film Festival in Gdynia, Poland, 2011
- SIGNIS Prize for Best Film and Special Jury Prize for Robert Wieckiewicz at the 27th Warsaw Film Festival, Warsaw, Poland 2011
- Main Prize for Best Feature Film at the International Film Festival “Kino Pavasaris” in Vilnius, Lithuania 2011
- Main Prize for Best Feature Film in International Competition at the Roma Independent Film Festival in Rome, Italy 2012