Dutch film director
Sacha Polak in 2011
Sacha Polak (born 1982) is a Dutch film director.
Career
In 2012 Polak's feature film debut Hemel played at the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival . Additionally her short Brother and her step-mother Meral Uslu 's film on which she was a script supervisor, all played at the festival as well.[ 1]
In 2014 Polak was initially going to direct the film Vita & Virginia about the love-affair between Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West but was she replaced by Chanya Button .[ 2]
In 2015 Polak's second film Zurich played at the 65th Berlin International Film Festival .[ 3]
Polak's next feature film was the movie Dirty God about a woman who sustained facial burns after an acid attack by her ex-partner.[ 4] This film won her the Golden Calf award for best direction at the 2019 Netherlands Film Festival .[ 5] The lead actress in the film, Vicky Knight , won a BAFTA Breakthrough Brits award for new talent at the 2019 British Academy of Film and Television Arts awards .[ 6]
Personal life
Polak's mother died of breast cancer 11 months after she was born.[ 7]
Director Meral Uslu is her step-mother.
Filmography
References
External links
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