About
Jola Kudela is a Polish-born director of animated and mixed-media films, working between London, Paris and Warsaw.
Training
Animation and VFX at the Łódź Film School, and computer animation at Gobelins in Paris.
Industry
Fifteen years inside the industry: on Flame in advertising, as a compositing supervisor on game cinematics across Europe and India, and as a Nuke compositor in London on Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, The Chronicles of Narnia, Dark Shadows and Fast & Furious 6 at MPC and DNEG, and at The Mill and Mac Guff (Despicable Me). She was visual supervisor on Pathé’s Animal Kingdom: Let’s Go Ape and art director on Studio 100’s Vic the Viking and the Magic Sword.
Own work
Her experimental shorts and music videos for composers Poppy Ackroyd, Julia Kent and Katie Gately have won more than 25 international festival awards. She has directed for ARTE / Karambolage and made commercials for Samsung, Orange and Nestlé. 600 Years of Łódź won first prize at FilmAT 2024. Most recently she created generative-AI period shots and title design for an Opus Film series.
Now
She is developing her first animated feature, A Door to the Woods, written by Aga Lesiewicz and produced by Opus Film.