Sacha Polak
Dutch film director From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sacha Polak (born 1982) is a Dutch film director.
Career
In 2012 Polak's feature film debut Hemel played at the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival. Additionally her short Brother and her step-mother Meral Uslu's film on which she was a script supervisor, all played at the festival as well.[1]
In 2014 Polak was initially going to direct the film Vita & Virginia about the love-affair between Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West but was she replaced by Chanya Button.[2]
In 2015 Polak's second film Zurich played at the 65th Berlin International Film Festival.[3]
Polak's next feature film was the movie Dirty God about a woman who sustained facial burns after an acid attack by her ex-partner.[4] This film won her the Golden Calf award for best direction at the 2019 Netherlands Film Festival.[5] The lead actress in the film, Vicky Knight, won a BAFTA Breakthrough Brits award for new talent at the 2019 British Academy of Film and Television Arts awards.[6]
Personal life
Polak's mother died of breast cancer 11 months after she was born.[7]
Director Meral Uslu is her step-mother.
Filmography
- Hemel (2012)
- Zurich (2015)
- Dirty God (2019)
- Hanna (2019-2021)
- Silver Haze (2023)[8]
References
External links
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