About Ania Przygoda

Ania Przygoda is an award-winning sound editor. She won Best Sound Designer at Underwire Film Festival 2014 and was nominated for the prestigious Verna Fields Golden Reel awarded by Motion Picture Sound Editors association in Los Angeles.

Her recent feature I Am Not A Witch by Rungano Nyoni, premiered in the Official Selection at Cannes Film Festival and the director was awarded BEST DIRECTOR AT BIFA – BRITISH INDEPENDENT FILM AWARDS 2017.

Another feature documentary, Almost Heaven by Carol Salter, had its world premiere in the Official Selection at Berlinale 2017 – Generation 14plus and won Best Documentary at BIFA – BRITISH INDEPENDENT FILM AWARDS 2017.

In 2015, Pikadero, a feature she has worked on, premiered in New Directors competition at San Sebastián International Film Festival. Also the same year, Dancing in Circles, a short she has worked on the year before, won BAFTA Cymru 2015.

Previously, Ania’s films have won the Palme d’Or in Cannes 2014, Golden Leopard at Locarno Film Festival and San Sebastián International Film Festival 2012, Grand Prix at Tampere Film Festival, Royal Television Society Award in 2013, Golden Mikeldi at ZINEBI Bilbao, Grand Jury Prize at Lille Festival du Cinéma Européen, Best Film at Bogota Short Film Festival, Best UK Short at London Short Film Festival, Grand Prix in Shorts Asia in Tokyo and Huesca.

Ania graduated with an MA in Sound Design for Film and Television from the National Film and Television School in the UK.

She has worked as a sound designer, sound editor and dubbing mixer on numerous films both shorts and features. She has also worked on commercials for Dr. Martens and Vice.