Born in Warsaw, and at the age of 10 left on an overnight train with my parents and a backpack in which I had 2 books (The Jungle Book, and Greek Myths), not knowing that I would only have those 2 books for the next year to entertain myself in a small mountain village in Austria as we awaited passage to Canada.

Attended grade school and high school in Windsor Ontario, which was once again a whiplash experience from cottage country to motor city (a small brother to Detroit across the river), where I promised my gaggle of girlfriends to write a book about our Friday nights with cars, bars, and various hotel parties we threw, attended or crashed (you pick which verb goes with what noun!)

Got accepted to Waterloo engineering, but didn’t expect to go because it was so expensive, until my Mom filled a truck full of furniture that she was great at selling, and shipped me off to the best engineering school in Canada (according to Maclean’s Magazine) to kick-start my career.

After graduating, ended up in Vancouver, once again a culture shock from the east coast rat-race to west coast chill vibe and working in clean tech before climate change was stressing everyone out. Here, I continued to write, and discovered my true calling, program management, basically telling people what to do… and… when I met my significant other, who introduced me to film, discovered that managing programs, is very similar to directing a film. So, I crossed over, and here I am. Enjoying every minute of every day, and especially those sunrises on my balcony that you see in the film.