Wiktoria Szymanska was begotten in Gdansk. Having passion for art, she went to the musical school and then Art College. At the age of 17, she moved to St Andrew University where she obtained a scholarship in Literature, Studied script-writing in Camerimage film school in Poland, where she also obtained BA and MA in Anthropology in UMK. Wanting to be the citizen of the world, she worked and travelled to New York and in beloved Mexico. In 2004 and moved her way to Paris to graduate film and Art & Film studies at the Sorbonne.
Since 2005, Wiktoria worked in film production, in development of international film project with Parisian film houses also worked as director assistant on short and documentary films. In 2006 she started a work in TV, ARTE collaborating on the CHIC, to eventually work with VIASAT as a promo director. After completing a documentary course, ARCHIDOC at LA FEMIS in Paris, which directed her into the archive based creative documentary. Recent collaboration: ARTE, AVRO, BBC4, TVP. At present lives in London, where she volunteers in hospices for children and works on documentary projects with Africa, Mexico and Poland.
Her Themerson &Themerson co-produced by ARTE, premiered in Vision du Reel.
