Dominika Waclawiak is a political refugee who escaped with her parents from Communist Poland in the early 1980’s. Since then, she has become a director, writer and visual effects artist. She graduated from Cornell University with a Bachelor’s in Architecture and is a former National Science Foundation Young Scholar. Her Visual Effects credits include: the upcoming true stereoscopic feature, Yogi Bear, Night at the Museum:The Battle for the Smithsonian, Land of the Lost, The Incredible Hulk, Evan Almighty, Superman Returns, The Chronicles of Narnia: the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, and the Oscar-winning films, Happy Feet and The Golden Compass. She has production designed and art directed various independent shorts, music videos and spots for such companies as Nickelodeon, MTV, and Good Machine. Dominika’s directorial debut, a 35mm stop motion animated short Piekni was completed in 2007 and went on to play at the Slamdance Film Festival: Anarchy Division and dozens of other national and international film festivals. In 2008, she was one of eight women selected to participate in AFI’s Directing Workshop for Women, where she wrote and directed her third narrative short, the VFX fantasy, Gosia’s Witch. She is currently writing a feature screenplay, which she is also set to direct, tentatively titled The Sixth Victim, for producer Tracy Mercer (Through the Wormhole with Morgan Freeman). Waclawiak has studied art, photography, and architectural design in Iceland; Norway, in conjunction with the University of Oslo; Sweden, Denmark, Poland and throughout Italy. Her paintings and photography have been exhibited in various galleries in Los Angeles, Rome, and New York City. –