Barbara Rupik

Barbara RUPIK (1992, Poland) is a director and screenwriter specialising in puppet and mixed media stop-motion animation. She graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice and the Polish National Film, Television and Theatre School in Lodz.
Her short animation The Little Soul (2019) premiered at the 72nd Festival de Cannes, where it was awarded with the III Cinèfondation Prize. Later, it won the Animated Shorts Grand Jury Award and the CreativeFuture Innovation Award at Slamdance Film Festival.

Her graduation short film Such Miracles Do Happen (2022) had its premiere at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival and received the Best Short Film Award at Riga IFF (2023) and the Golden Dove Award for the Best Animated Short Film at DOK Leipzig (2023), where it was acclaimed for using the outstanding technique of a liquid stop-motion. She is the author of the puppet animation in Agnieszka Smoczyńska’s Silent Twins (2022).

Filmography

The Little Soul (2019), Such Miracles Do Happen (2022), Cherub (in development)