Andrzej Krakowski

He studied under several prominent film directors and worked as an intern assistant to Andrzej Wajda during the making of Ashes (1965).

In 1970, alongside David Lynch, Terrence Malick, Paul Schrader, and Jeremy Kagan, he became a producing auditor, and then a fellow, at the American Film Institute.

During this period he worked on and line-produced several films for his AFI colleagues: Terrence Malick's Lanton Mills, Richard Patterson's Open Window, Jeremy Kagan's Love Song by Charles Faberman and Oscar Williams' The Final Comedown, launching careers of such actors as Ron Rifkin and Billy Dee Williams.

After leaving YASNY, he continued producing films with his own Filmtel, Inc., including Portrait of a Hitman, starring Rod Steiger and Jack Palance, and White Dragon, with Christopher Lloyd and Dee Wallace Stone.

Today his screenwriting credits include: Triumph of the Spirit, starring Willem Dafoe and Edward James Olmos, Eminent Domain, with Donald Sutherland and Anne Archer, Tides of War, a vehicle for Ernest Borgnine and David Soul, Genghis Khan with Charlton Heston, Ogniem i Mieczem (With Fire and Sword), the highest-grossing film in Poland, as well as Managua, with Louis Gossett, Jr and Assumpta Serna in the lead.

In the first decade of 2000, Krakowski produced and directed a feature film based on a popular comic book, Campfire Stories, which has been sold to over 35 countries; a hit stage musical in Tokyo Felix The Cat's Musical Journey; a feature-length docudrama Farewell To My Country, chronicling the expulsion of the last Polish Jews from their homeland in 1968,[2] and several commercials for Mercedes and BWIA airlines featuring Geoffrey Holder.

Krakowski’s latest production, Pollywood, a feature-length documentary directed by Paweł Ferdek, won an award at the Krakow International Film Festival in 2020 and is being shown on HBO Europe and HBO+.

He is currently a tenured professor and the former Chair of the Media & Communication Arts Department at the City College of New York, where he teaches film directing, screenwriting, production, and critical studies.