Marek Kanievska (1)

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.

Career
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.

Early features
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.

The film is loosely based on the life of the spy and double agent Guy Burgess and explores his homosexuality and exposure to Marxism while examining the hypocrisy and snobbery of the English public school system. Starring Rupert Everett and Colin Firth the film was entered into the 1984 Cannes Film Festival where it won the award for Best Artistic Contribution.

Kanievska followed this with Less Than Zero (1987) an American drama very loosely based on Bret Easton Ellis' novel of the same name. The film stars Andrew McCarthy as Clay, a college freshman returning home for Christmas to spend time with his ex-girlfriend Blair (Jami Gertz) and his friend Julian (Robert Downey, Jr.), who is struggling with drug addiction. The film presents a look at the culture of wealthy, decadent youth in 1980's Los Angeles. wiki

Director (16 credits)
2004 Tercera identidad
2000 Donde esté el dinero
1987 Golpe al sueño americano
1984 Otro país
1983 How We Learned to Ski (Documentary)
1982 Muck and Brass (TV Mini-Series) (4 episodes)
1979-1980 Shoestring (TV Series) (4 episodes)
1980 The First Day (Short)
1979 Hazell (TV Series) (2 episodes)
1979 BBC2 Play of the Week (TV Series) (1 episode)
1979 Thomas y Sarah (TV Series) (2 episodes)
1979 ITV Playhouse (TV Series) (1 episode)
1976-1978 Within These Walls (TV Series) (3 episodes)
1977 Our Show (TV Series) (6 episodes)
1977 Rooms (TV Series) (4 episodes)
1975 Matlock Police (TV Series) (11 episodes)
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OK Another Country (Marek Kanievska, 1984)

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