Born in Warsaw in 1973, Rafał Leszczyński studied photography at the Leon Schiller National Film, television and Theatre School in Łódź from 1994 to 1996. He graduated in the making and technology of film, television and photographic image from the Faculty of Television and Radio at the University of Silesia’s Krzystof Kieślowksi Faculty of Television and Radio, where his master’s supervisor was Bogdan Dziworski. He works primarily on documentary films, directing, filming and editing.