Mateusz Kudła (Polish pronunciation: [maˈtɛ.uʂ ˈkudwa]; born September 16, 1991) is a Polish awarded film producer, director, journalist and YouTuber.

He is a member of the International Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and European Film Academy.

Kudła was born on September 16, 1991, in Chicago, Illinois. His parents, Anna and Tomasz, returned to Poland a year later. He holds dual citizenship, US and Polish.^[1]

Kudła's paternal great-grandparents, Jadwiga and Stanisław Solecki, were posthumously awarded the title of Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem on August 25, 2015. They risked their lives during the Holocaust to save Jewish girl, Marlena Wagner, from extermination by the Nazis. In 2017 Mateusz Kudła started producing a documentary film about Marlena Madeleine Wagner-Alster, who came to Korczyna after over 70 years with her children and grandchildren to once again see the house where her life was saved.^[2][3][4][5]

Kudła studied American studies at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków.^[6] Mateusz Kudła started working in the media at the age of 18. As he recalls, in order to take his final exams, he had to take a leave from Onet.pl, the largest Polish web portal and online news platform, where he was a picture editor of the home page at that time.

Kudła began his career in 2010 in TVN, one of Poland's major television networks owned by Warner Bros. Discovery, where he prepared news reports for TVN24, a Polish 24-hour commercial news channel, and Fakty TVN, the flagship newscast of TVN. Earlier he had been the picture editor in Onet.pl, the largest Polish web portal.

Kudła was awarded for his journalistic achievements by the Association of Journalists of the Republic of Poland in 2016. He was nominated for the Bolesław Prus Award in 2017.^[7][8]

He was a TV managing editor of the International Festival of Independent Cinema Off Camera from 2018 to 2020.^[9]

For his first short documentary film, Depositary (2014), he was awarded on Southampton International Film Festival^[10] and has received two nominations on The Best Shorts Competition.^[11] His film The Photo Film People (2017) won the Gold Dolphin of the Cannes Corporate Media & TV Awards in France^[12] and the Gold Plaque of the Chicago International Film Festival Television Awards in United States.^[13][14]

In 2015 he directed documentary film Wilczur about Jacek Wilczur, member of the Main Commission for the Investigation of Nazi Crimes in Poland, explorer of the Project Riese undergrounds and the Home Army executioner in Holy Cross Mountains.

Kudła is a director and producer of film Polanski, Horowitz. Hometown, with Oscar-winning director Roman Polanski's and New York photographer Ryszard Horowitz's participation, about their early life in Kraków Ghetto during the Holocaust and after the war in Poland.^{[15][16][17][18]}

He co-founded a KRK FILM production house.

He is a Meritorious Honorary Blood Donor awarded by the Polish Red Cross.^[19]

Director and producer^[20]

• Polanski, Horowitz. Hometown – a KRK FILM production (2021)^{[21][22][23][24][25]}
• The Photo Film People – a TVN production (2017)^[26]
• Wilczur – a TVN production (2015)^[27]
• Depositary – a TVN production (2014)^[28]

• Mateusz Kudla at IMDb
• Mateusz Kudla on FilmPolski.pl
• Mateusz Kudla on KRK FILM