
Ewa Ewart (born 13 March 1956 in
Warsaw
Warsaw, officially the Capital City of Warsaw, is the capital and List of cities and towns in Poland, largest city of Poland. The metropolis stands on the Vistula, River Vistula in east-central Poland. Its population is officially estimated at ...
) is a Polish journalist and an award-winning filmmaker who specializes in groundbreaking and influential documentaries.
Early life
She was born and raised in Warsaw, Poland, but she has spent most of her career based at the BBC TV in London, England.
Ewa Ewart is a graduate of the University of Warsaw with a degree in Spanish language and culture.
Career
In the early 1980s she worked as a translator and a reporter for the Spanish news agency
EFE
Agencia EFE, S.A. () is a Spanish international news agency, the major Spanish language, Spanish-language multimedia news agency and the world's fourth largest wire service after the Associated Press, Reuters, and Agence France-Presse. EFE was ...
in its Warsaw bureau.
After leaving the country in the mid-1980s, she continued her work for EFE in London, UK.
In the years 1985–1990, she was based in Washington, D.C., where she was a reporter for the BBC World Service, Polish Section, and a freelance producer for some international TV networks based in Washington, D.C. (in the United States, avoiding repetition of Washington, D.C.)
In 1990 she moved to Moscow, where she worked as a news producer for the American television network CBS in the Moscow Bureau.
In 1993 she returned to Great Britain and began her career as a producer and director for the
BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England. Originally established in 1922 as the British Broadcasting Company, it evolved into its current sta ...
TV Current Affairs Department. She worked for flagships international documentary programs such as ''Assignment'', ''Correspondent'' and ''This World''.
She has traveled and worked in many countries of the world, producing and directing programs ranging from investigations and political and social observational documentaries.
Ewa Ewart has been a freelancer since 2012. She works on a regular basis for
TVN24
TVN24 is a Polish 24-hour commercial news channel, launched on 9 August 2001. Being a part of the TVN Network, TVN24 has been owned since 2018 by US-based media company Warner Bros. Discovery ( Discovery, Inc. before 2022). It gained broade ...
and TVN24Bis, American owned commercial channels in Poland, where she is the presenter of an international documentary strand.
Filmography
External links
*
''A child of Beslan'' by Ewa EwartBBC News
- interview with Ewa Ewart
''Ewa Ewart''at the Filmpolski.pl Database
Awards and recognition
* 1998:
BAFTA
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA, ) is an independent trade association and charity that supports, develops, and promotes the arts of film, television and video games in the United Kingdom. In addition to its annual awa ...
nomination for ''ETA - Coming in From the Cold''.
* 2000: Premis Actual International Award - ''No Experience Necessary''.
* 2004: ''Access to Evil'' RTS (Royal Television Society) Award, Amnesty International Award, The Foreign Press Association Award, CINE Award, Golden Globe Award and Grand Prix Golden Globe.
* 2005/2006: ''Children of Beslan'' BAFTA Nomination, Double Emmy nomination (Best Director and Best Camera), Amnesty International Nomination. Two RTS Awards (categories: Best Documentary and Best Journalism), FIPA Award, CINE Award, Peabody Award, BANFF Award, One World Award.
* 2009: Andrzej Wojciechowski Award in recognition for her documentaries series.
* 2009: Nominated for Grand Press Award, Poland - Journalist of the Year.
* 2010: Received the Wiktor Award, Poland - for the Best TV Programme.
* 2011: Nominated for Grand Press Award, Poland - Journalist of the Year.
* 2012: Winner of the Wiktor Award, Poland - for the Best TV Programme.
* 2014: Winner of MediaTory – annual Award given by Polish Students of Journalism.
* 2014: ''Red Gold: The Inside Story of Poland’s Biggest Copper Deal'' Winner of Silver Globe, World Media Festival in Hamburg, Germany.
* 2014: Winner of Outstanding Personality of the Year – European Business Forum.
* 2015: Winner of Jerzy Zimowski Award- Poland's Institute of Public Affairs.
* 2017: Winner of MediaTory - Authority of the Year - annual prize awarded by Polish Students of Journalism.
* 2020: Winner of the Honorary Award of Polish Human Rights Commissioner "For Services to the Protection of Human Rights". Winner of the Amnesty International Poland Lifetime Award in the Media for Human Rights
References
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Living people
Polish women film directors
Polish film producers
Polish women film producers
1956 births