Zbig Rybczynski (pronounced Rib-CHIN-ski)
was born in Poland in 1949 and has been working as a film director in Europe and the United States since the early 1970s. His work has received many prestigious industry awards in the United States, Japan and Europe. The awards include an Academy Award® in 1983 for "Tango", an Emmy® in Special Effects in 1990 for "The Orchestra", the Prix Italia, the Golden Gate Award in San Francisco and awards at the Electronic Cinema Festival Tokyo/Montreaux. Numerous other awards include MTV, American Video Awards, Monitor Awards and the Billboard Music Video Awards.
He is a pioneer in using High Definition television technology, and an innovator and experimentator in the technical field - he's an author of several US patents, which are mostly the innovative ideas for film and video making, including "Zbig "software for matting.
Zbig also has a distinguished academic career - he was a teacher at the Film School in Lodz, Poland (cinematography), at Columbia University, NY (electronic filmmaking) and a professor of experimental film at the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne, Germany.
Presently, Zbig holds a position of a visiting professor at Joshibi University of Art and Design, Tokyo, Japan.
In 2001 he moved back to Los Angeles and became a member of Ultimatte's and iMatte's creative teams.
Zbig is currently continuing his filmmaking career and is open to interesting projects.
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