Kinga Syrek is a Ph.D. student at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków, Poland. She was the recipient of the prestigious “Diamond Grant” in 2019, which is awarded by The Ministry of Science and Higher Education in Poland for her project “Immersion in an animated film”. In the same year she received a “Ministry of Culture and National Heritage’s scholarship for her artistic works. She has created and directed a fully visual first ever animated film about the life of Edie Sedgwick, entitled “TOO LATE”, which is her debut film.