Piotr Uznański (Uzi), born 1984. A graduate of the University of Silesia, Łódź Film School (PWSFTiTV) and Łódź University of Technology. Won KTR 2018 Award (film craft / cinematography) for Skoda commercial. Short movie :“The Confession”, directed by Daria Woszek has been awarded Kodak Award in Los Angeles for the best cinematography and nominated for Golden Tadpole in the Camerimage Student Competition. Another short movie - “Sea Tales” (dir. Daria Woszek) has also been awarded the Kodak Student Award - for Artistic Vision. He cooperated with many talented Cinematographers such as Arkadiusz Tomiak, Sławomir Idziak, Krzysztof Ptak, and Hollywood Action Director Tom Struthers. Started as a camera operator in many movies and TV series, i.e. "Sztuka kochania", “Karbala", “Obława", "Czerwony Pająk", "Bitwa Warszawska" or "Bez Tajemnic".
His first TV series as a DOP - "Warszawianka" (dir. Jacek Borcuch) premiered on SkyShowtime and was hugely popular. “Forst” (dir. Daniel Jaroszek), right after its premiere, was one of the most watched series on Netflix . He has finished filming the next TV series for Netflix and is preparing for his feature debut.
Piotrek also has a lot of experience in shooting in India, where he worked as a DOP in one of the biggest Bollywood titles, an action movie “Tiger Zinda Hai”.
Besides feature movies, Piotr works on commercials (Red Bull, Samsung, Levi’s, Skoda, Dell, Ursus, T-Mobile, Dawtona, PKO Bank, mBank, Orange), and music videos.