Marcin Ciastoń

Born in Poland 1980, I studied at the Institute of Applied Linguistics, Warsaw University (MA degree in Translation, English and German). During a gap year in 2002 I studied Public Relations at Uniworld Business College in Sydney. Since graduating I’ve worked as a translator and language consultant. In 2016 I graduated from Warsaw Film School (Postgraduate Studies in Screenwriting, 2014 – 2016), where I completed a historical crime feature film screenplay set in the 1980s in Poland. I have also adapted and written three aired episodes of an Israeli TV show “Little Mom” – broadcast in Poland as “Nie rób scen”.

Operation Hyacinth

Cross Channel Film Lab 2016

Former title: Bitter Violet

In communist Poland, a policeman’s world is turned upside down as he falls for another man, but has to take part in a police operation against homosexuals.