[2] As a filmmaker, Halaczinsky earned his first critical acclaim as an associate producer for Calling the Ghosts (1996),[3] for which in 1997 he won an ACE award for International Informational Special or Series.
[9] Halaczinsky revisited the film's subject and protagonist a couple of years later, resulting in the follow-up documentary "A long Way home" (2010), which the international broadcaster Deutsche Welle[10] first aired in 2010, simultaneously in German, English, Spanish and Arabic.
He produced and co-directed (with Sebastian Lemke) the documentary "Coney Island - A Last Summer[11]" for European television as a co-production of ZDF and arte in 2008.
[13] A video installation about this exploration was featured at the international exhibition “Bitteres Wasser” at Galerie im Hafen Rummelsburg in Berlin.
[14] While sailing the New York island world following the route of historical Dutch explorer Adriaen Block, Halaczinsky also wrote about his search for a sense of place.