Bloody Trophy

Ewa Galica is a graduate of the University of Warsaw and the Università degli Studi di Siena. She began her career in 2007 at NBC News in London and has been with Warner Bros. Discovery Poland (TVN) for the past 14 years. Her films have received numerous awards at festivals in Poland and around the world. Her documentary Free the Captain, about Captain Andrzej Lasota, who was held in a Mexican prison for almost two years, won an award at The World Media Festival in Hamburg. Another work, The Bishop’s Court and the Pope’s Secret, in which Mariusz Milewski—molested as a child by a priest—reveals the mechanisms of the Church justice system, also won in Hamburg. Her latest documentary, The Wagner Group. Putin’s Mercenaries (2023), portrays former mercenaries of the Wagner Group who fled to the West, refusing to accept its brutal methods. The film includes previously unpublished footage of Wagner fighters on the Ukrainian front and hidden camera recordings of recruitment in Russian prisons. It won the GRAND AWARD and GOLD AWARD at the US International Awards in Los Angeles, the Silver Dolphin at the Corporate Media & TV Awards in Cannes, was nominated for The Golden Nymph at the 62nd Monte Carlo Television Festival, officially selected for the 7th RIFFA | Regina International Film Festival and Awards (Canada), and nominated for Best Documentary at the Marbella International Film Festival.