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Jan Kazimierz Barnaś

Jan Kazimierz Barnaś

MA

Director & Producer

jankazimierzbarnas@braveboystudio.com

+48 530 450 322

jankazimierzbarnas@braveboystudio.com


filmmaker, film director, cinematographer, and producer whose main field of activity is film and audiovisual art in a broad sense. Graduate of the Institute of Photography and Multimedia at the Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź. Co-founder of the independent film production company Brave Boy Studio, which won an award in the "I have an idea for a startup" competition while he was still a student. In his film activity, he has created numerous feature-length forms, TV series, etudes, music videos, and video-art forms. He started as a camera assistant (2014-2015), eventually moving behind the lens and the director's camera for documentary and feature productions. He worked, among others, as a cinematographer on the films "Dzik" (2017) and "Zanim" (2017), on the international series "Zapiski z Okupacji" (filmed in Poland and Israel), and as an editing assistant on the documentary series "Złombol". He is currently responsible for the feature film "Patchwork Family" (2025, prod. Ireland). He is strongly involved in documentary cinema and social campaigns. Since 2020, he has been developing a multi-year documentary project about the Seto people and their endangered singing, "Leelo". He produces original projects for entities such as the Ocalenie Foundation, Nomada Foundation, IKEA GLOBAL, Ministry of Education, the UN, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of South Korea. He actively educates new generations of filmmakers — from 2026 he teaches at the Cinematography Department of the Łódź Film School (PWSFTviT), and previously at the University of Łódź. Winner of many industry awards, including a scholarship from the Minister of Culture ("Color of Conquer", 2021), recognized on the Futures Photography 2020 list in Amsterdam, and winner of awards for his innovative, experimental short films (e.g., "Czorty").

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