Magda Jaroszewicz was born in 1986 and raised in Warsaw, Poland. As a teenager she spent a year in Australia. Back in Europe she studied script and playwriting in Poland and France, then she graduated from Theater and Performing Arts Studies in Cracow as well as film directing in the National Film School in Lodz. Her short fiction films "The Death of a Czech Dog" (2011) and "Wild Berries" (2016) where screened on various European film festivals.
After finishing film school she moved to Berlin, where she works as a researcher and local producer. Recently she researched and co-directed a Polish part of a huge project for ARTE - 24 Hours Europe. She is a Stipendist of Haus am See program where she develops her first feature film. The same script takes part in Berlinale Talents 2019 Script Station. She likes to combine both mediums – documentary and fiction – and is interested in identity transitions and what does the past do with the living. She has a dog.