Jarosław "Jarek" Kupść (born December 26, 1966) is a Polish-American film director, screen writer, and actor.
In 1985, he left Poland for Greece, where he studied Byzantine icon painting and worked as a freelance cartoonist.
He graduated from San Francisco State University in 1995 with a degree in writing/directing, while also pursuing a career as a graphic artist.
[2] He followed with a road movie in 2006 titled Slumberland which won the Special Jury Prize at the Gdynia Film Festival[3] His 2008 feature, The Reflecting Pool, was one of the first narrative films dealing with the investigation of the September 11th attacks,[4][5][6] After returning to Poland in 2010, he wrote and directed Kliny (Wedges) and began his association with the Warsaw Film School in Warsaw, Poland,[7] where he teaches at the international department.
Jarek Kupść' film and art essays have been published by Little White Lies,[9] Cineaste[10] and other magazines.