Szymon Pawlik

Bio

A painter by education, Simon is a director who incorporates his background in painting and graphic design into his work.

Simon is especially passionate about projects that involve advanced post-production techniques, especially 3D and VFX technologies. He also loves developing lifestyle movies, based on working closely with excellent acting talent and top-notch storytelling.

Simon’s professional output includes projects for global brands like BMW, Toyota, Castrol, Fiat, HBO, Huawei, Ikea, Microsoft, Nokia, Red Bull, McDonalds, Carlsberg (Kasztelan) and Żywiec.

At the beginning of his career, Simon spent over 8 years polishing his skills as a supervisor and art director at Orka and LUNAPARK, two post-production studios. With a firm grasp of VFX, he began directing with Platige Image in 2013.

Pawlik’s short film, The Connected Flights, created for the clothing brand Kubatek was included in the official selection at the Cannes in a Van film festival. The Connected Flights also won the Best Fashion category at the 2013 Miami Fashion Film Festival, received the Main Prize at Warsaw Fashion Film Festival, and was nominated in the Best Music and Best Editing categories at the 2014 London Fashion Film Festival. It also won the Silver KTR in the Cinematography category and the Bronze KTR in the Music category. His G2A You Lose When You Overpay campaign received four KTR awards, including the Gold KTR for Best Direction, and was shortlisted for the Berlin Commercial Festival in four categories.