Liliana Komorowska is the Founder and President of QUEENART FILMS.
Formed in 2004, this film company focuses on making films.
Liliana Komorowska is fascinated by human nature and stimulated by originality and artistic creation. An accomplished actress finds passion in filmmaking; she has more than thirty years of experience in cinema and has played in over sixty film productions.
Since its foundation, QueenArt Films has produced many short films, music videos, and documentaries: 2006 –REGAINED PARADIS PERDU, PARADIS RETROUVE | PARADISE LOST, PARADISE, about Polish aristocracy living in Rawdon, a small city in Quebec (broadcasted in 2012 by TV Polonia)
QueenArt Films undertakes the creative development of film projects by Liliana Komorowska to set up productions with Canadian content.
QueenArt Films uses its good working relationships with Canadian and Polish partners.
QueenArt Films - overall company strategy and vision lie with Liliana Komorowska as a principal director and producer. She focuses on creative and content decisions.
"There is no end. There is no beginning.
There is only the infinite passion of life."
- Frederico Fellini.
Liliana Komorowska Director
Mentored by the Academy Award-winning film producer Denise Robert and inspired by the work of Alanis Obomsawin, a proficient documentary filmmaker, Liliana discovered a passion for directing. In 2007, Komorowska took her efforts behind the cam to produce under her production company,
QueenArt Films produced her first documentary short titled PARADISE LOST PARADISE FOUND (PARADIS PERDU, PARADIS RETROUVE) - broadcast by TV Polonia in 2012.
An accomplished actress and promising filmmaker, Liliana Komorowska went behind the camera in 2009 to shoot what would become her directorial debut with the powerful, ambitious, touching, and poignant award-winning documentary film BEAUTY AND THE BREAST | PIĘKNE I BESTIA – (iTunes, Amazon, Vimeo on demand).
This compelling feature offers an intimate insight into the devastating realities of breast cancer through the eyes of nine female survivors. Shortly after making its festival debut at the World Film Festival in Montreal in 2012, the film achieved high honours. Komorowska took home her first Best Documentary Award and Public Award and later snagged the Grand Jury Prize for the Best Feature Documentary and Best First-Time Director awards at the London Film Awards. The film continued to garner honours around the world, including the prize for Best Feature Documentary at the Women's International Film & Arts Festival in Miami, the Royal Reel Award for the Best Canadian Film at the Canada International Film Festival, and an honourable mention at the New Jersey Film Festival and Santa Monica Independent Film Festival in 2013.
Komorowska's s most recent short film, TO MY FATHER | OJCU, is a dramatic recreation of events that tell the story of Adam Bandrowski, a teacher from the Polish borderlands, an innocent victim of one of many acts of genocide carried out during Stalin's Great Purge. His daughter Alina Bandrowska breaks the silence about Vinnytsia Massacre with her poem. It premiered at CAMERIMAGE 2015. The film went to CANNES 2016, seen at SHORT FILM CORNERS.
She is a member of The Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television and the Film Directors Association of Poland.
DIRECTOR | PRODUCER - FILMOGRAPHY
2017/2022 Wajda (72') (co-director, co-producer) – documentary film Pl/En. (pre-production)
2022 Stormy Day (14’) (producer) short live-action, dir. Sebastien Duguay
2022 Tu m’entends (5’) (producer) – short live-action film Fr., dir. Natalia Duguay
2018 Viral (12') (producer) – short live-action film En., dir. Natalia Duguay
2015 Ojcu | To My Father (director, producer) – docudrama (26') – (TVP2) DVD, Short Film Corners CANNES 2016
2013 Hurt My Heart (producer) — music video, with Rock Roll STAR Nanette Workman
(GLOBAL TV, Canada)
2012 Beauty and the Breast | Piękne i bestia (90') (director, producer) – documentary film En/Fr. (TV5, TVP1)
2012 Écho d'un moment (11’) – (producer) short life action film Fr., dir. Sebastien Duguay - official selection Outaouais Film Festival (OFF)
2011 L’enfant de tambour (director, producer) – music-video, (Bravo TV, Canada)
2010 Dead Man on Duty (10') (producer) – short live-action film dir. Sebastien Duguay – Short Film Corners CANNES 2011
2010 Tempo (8') – (producer) short live-action film, dir. Sebastien Duguay —
2010 Dr Bali Method YOGA (45'), (director, producer) documentary film for the Quebec Breast Cancer Foundation - DVD
2006 Paradis perdu, Paradis retrouvé | Paradise Lost, Paradise Found (33’), (producer), dir. Beata Nawrocki and Katarzyna Lech. – documentary film (TVP Polonia 2012)
