Kuba Witek (aka Jakub Witek) – born on November 19th, 1983 in Cracow, but grew up in Kielce. Filmmaker, traveler, author of books. A graduate of the University of Central Lancashire in Preston.
An enthusiast of the North. Participant of the scientific expedition AREX19 to Spitsbergen, which resulted in making a film ICE MOTION, about the melting Arctic. He visited Sweden and Norway, and been to Iceland nine times – He wandered around the largest Vatnajökull glacier, visited the ice caves and climbed the highest Icelandic peak. He toured the entire island three times. For the first time in 2016, during a lonely trip on two wheels, which he later described in the book – Ring Road: Around Iceland on a bicycle. The second time in the summer of 2017, to make his first documentary – ISOLAND: Icelandic stories of Polish immigrants. His second documentary – FAROE WAY: The art of survival in the Faroe Islands – is an effect of many trips to the Faroes and his relations with their small, isolated community. In 2020 he is planning to visit Greenland.
Participant in youth exchanges and non-governmental initiatives. Worked on commercial film projects in New York, Berlin, Paris, Reykjavik, Oslo and other places.
A runner, advocate of a plant diet & minimalism. Author of the autobiographical novel RE: Tusz, describing his fight against addiction and the hardships of growing up in post-communist Poland.
