Rafal Sokolowski is an Assistant Professor at the University of Miami where he teaches Directing and Film Production. He’s an award-winning film and theater director, his films are screened around the world and are supported by Telefilm Canada, the National Film Board of Canada, the Canada and Ontario Arts Councils, and the Canadian Film Centre. He is the Artistic Director of Light Pipe Productions developing and producing narrative films.
His latest feature, “22 Chaser” premiered in Toronto where it won the Writer’s Guild of Canada Best Feature Screenplay Award and was acclaimed as one of the best Canadian films of the year. The film was produced by Don Carmody (“Chicago”, “Resident Evil”) and Daniel Bekerman (“The Witch”) and starred Brian J. Smith (“Sense8”), Raoul Trujillo (“Sicario”, “Apocalypto”), and John Kapelos (“The Breakfast Club”). It was released theatrically across US and Canada by Gravitas Ventures and is currently streaming on Amazon Prime, Paramount+, Apple TV, Google Play, and other video-on-demand channels, while available internationally in many languages.
Rafal’s new feature screenplay, “The Farm” won the 2023 UFVA Best Feature Screenplay Award and is currently optioned for production in 2024/25. He is developing an original television series, “Blink” – a neo-feminist gangster drama featuring Anastasia, a Ukrainian war refugee, who builds an underground corporation in the US specializing in the theft and export of luxury cars to Rusia.
Rafal was born in Poland and immigrated to Canada as a refugee in the nineties. Since then, he lived and worked in Toronto, Montreal, and Athens, Ohio. He’s a graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada, holds an MFA in Film from York University, and is an apprentice of the National Theatre Academy of Krakow in Directing.