The Filmmaking Team

Agatha DOMINIK

Visiting Professor, Screenwriting

Polish-American

Polish-American, born and educated in Warsaw, Poland, with M.A. in Film and Theater Critical Studies, has worked in Hollywood first as an executive at TriStar/Columbia, then as a V.P. of Production at Summers-Quaid, actor Dennis Quaid’s company at the same studio, where she produced a supernatural thriller, “Hideaway”, starring Jeff Goldblum and Christine Lahti. After becoming a full-time screenwriter, she wrote feature projects for Warner Brothers, DreamWorks, Miramax, Universal, Fox 2000, and a few mini-majors. She also collaborated with director Agnieszka Holland on three feature screenplays. In 2005, she wrote a highly regarded miniseries, HUMAN TRAFFICKING, for Lifetime Television, starring Donald Sutherland, Robert Carlyle and Mira Sorvino, which received a few Golden Globe and Emmy nominations.  Earlier this year, she finished another big miniseries for Lifetime and is presently working on three feature projects, one of them a remake of Krzysztof Kieslowski’s BLIND CHANCE.