Marek Kanievska
| Marek Kanievska | |
|---|---|
| Born |
30 November 1952 London, England |
| Occupation | Film director |
| Years active | 1976–present |
Marek Kanievska (born 30 November 1952) is a British film director. His films have won various awards at the Cannes Film Festival and the Florence Film Festival. His 2004 film A Different Loyalty was entered into the 26th Moscow International Film Festival.
Kanievska began his television directing career in Australia in the early 1970s with a production company called Crawford, producing episodes of a drama series called Matlock Police (1971–1976). The series details the lives of policemen working in a fictional country town in Victoria.
Returning to London Kanievska spent the latter half of the 1970s building up a range of credits including live television and entertainment programmes like Our Show (1977–1978) and the drama serial Rooms (1974).
During this period he also helmed episodes of the ITV detective drama Hazell (1978–1979); a parody of early film-noir, Shoestring (1979–1980); another detective drama for the BBC, Thomas & Sarah (1979), a spin-off from the BAFTA Award winning series Upstairs, Downstairs; A Light that Shines (1979) for BBC 2 Play of the Week; and various instalments of ITV Playhouse (1967–1983), a comedy drama series featuring contributions from playwrights such as Dennis Potter, Rhys Adrian and Alan Sharp.
In the early 80's Kanievska directed several episodes of Muck and Brass (1982) starring Mel Smith as an opportunistic property developer in the Midlands. Dealing with issues of greed, corruption and power politics in council chambers the series had a hard-edged realism and gritty humour that was greeted with acclaim on its original transmission.
Following a short film called The First Day (1980), a docu-drama starring Miranda Richardson, Kanievska's career as a feature director began in earnest with Another Country (1984), a British romantic historical drama written by Julian Mitchell and adapted from his play of the same title.
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