Ewa Puszczyńska

Puszczyńska studied English at the University of Łódź and began her career teaching English and translating dialogue for film and television.^[2] In 1995, she was offered an office job working for Piotr Dzięcioł [pl] at Opus Film, where she first began working as a producer.^[3]

In 2015, she founded Extreme Emotions, a production company co-managed with her daughter, Emilia.^[4] In 2018, she co-founded NEM Corp with Klaudia Śmieja-Rostworowska and Jan Naszewski.^[5][6] She served as a jury member for the 2018 Odesa International Film Festival and the 2024 Zurich Film Festival.^[7][8]

In January 2026, she was announced as a jury member for the main competition of the 76th Berlin International Film Festival.^[9][10] At the festival, journalist Tilo Jung asked jury president Wim Wenders about the absence of any criticism at the Biennale about the Gaza genocide, especially in light of the German government's support of the Israeli military and its role as the principal funder of the Biennale through the German Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media.^[11] Puszczyńska answered first, saying that the question was "unfair" and that films should not be considered "political" in the traditional sense, and arguing that cinema is a "counterweight to politics."^[12]

Puszczyńska has two children.^[3]