Director: Gosia Juszczak
Spain/Poland/UK, 2020
30′
Polish documentary director and producer based in Madrid. Graduate of “DOK PRO” documentary directing course at Andrzej Wajda Film School in Warsaw. In her documentary work, Gosia focuses on issues of social importance, migration and borders. “The Cargo Women of Melilla”, a take on a slave-like work of Moroccan women on the Southern EU border, was showcased within the Novara Docs series. “Stolen Fish” is her mid-length debut. Apart from her filmmaking career, Gosia is a journalist, translator and public speaker as former Human Rights observer in the Middle East. As a journalist, she wrote about such underreported issues as the evictions of Kenya’s Sengwer community’s or the struggle of the Nubian minority of Kenya. Currently Gosia is developing a feature documentary in the framework of DocLab Poland and Krakow Film Festiwal Industry Market with a working title Abou’s Journey. Based in Spain, lived in Poland, Mexico, Spain, USA, Palestine, Jordan. Speaks Polish, English, Spanish and basic Arabic.
Cinematography: Filip Drożdż
Editing: Adriana F. Castellanos
Sound recording: Igor Kłaczyński
Sound editing: Dariusz Wancerz
Line producers: Emilia Pluskota, Aleksandra Leszczyńska
Music: ST Gambian Dream
Colour: Ebrahim Alfadhala
Graphic design: Marta Florkowska-Dwojak, Magdalena Juszczak
Fixer: Mustapha Manneh
Researcher: Emilia Pluskota
Produced by: Gosia Juszczak
Executive produced by: Minority Rights Group International