How I lost my passport | Ela Benkowska | TEDxGdansk

This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. [English subtitles to be added shortly]
Ela tells us about how she lost her passport whilst traveling to Serbia and how it made for a screenplay for her film Olena that would feature at the Cannes Film Festival in France.

It's not by coincidence she was born on the day of Roman Polanski's 55 birthday. Daughter of a shipyard worker and accountant, sister of a mathematician, granddaughter of 3 Kashubians and citizen of Gdansk who decided to become a film director. It started with a short film about a ice hockey player and more recently focusing on fictional films. A graduate of the Gydnia School of Film and Slavic studies at the University of Gdańsk. She recieved her graduate diploma for the film Olena.

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