Agnieszka Piotrowska (1964, Warsaw) is a BBC trained documentary filmmaker with almost 20 years experience in the industry as a writer/producer/director and series producer. Piotrowska went to school in Sopot, Poland and Sweden. She studied at Hull University, and received a MA in Modern European Drama at Reading University with special supervision at Christ Church, Oxford. A freelance filmmaker since 1992, she has been nominated three times for an Emmy, and awarded a number of international prizes as well as RTS and BAFTA. Over the years she has interviewed Roman Polanski, David Puttnam, Micky Rourke, Sting, Oscar de la Renta, Lech Wałęsa, and other celebrities as well as working with convicted criminals or the dispossessed around the world, particularly in Africa. Lives and works in London.