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Apart from the female directors featuring on this site, there were numerous other women who, between 1945 and 1989, contributed to the production of factual films at the Documentary Film Studio in Warsaw.
Jadwiga Zajiček (born 1925)
film editor and director
Danuta Kępczyńska (born 1929)
film editor and director
Lidia Zonn (born 1934)
film editor
Helena Lemańska
film director and the head of the Polish Film Chronicle from 1949 to 1967
Elżbieta Zawistowska (born 1935)
cinematographer
Joanna Rojewska
film editor and director
Anna Dyrka (born 1935)
film director
Anna Górna (born 1944)
film editor
Ewa Kot-Wajs (born 1947)
film director
Beata Postnikoff (born 1948)
film editor
Grażyna Bryżuk (born 1947)
film editor
Maria Zmarz-Koczanowicz (born 1954)
film editor and director
Bożena Garus (born 1954)
fIlm director
Magdalena Łazarkiewicz (born 1954)
film editor
Anna Jurasz (born 1955)
film director
Maria Wiśnicka (born 1957)
film director
Many other women also worked on making documentary films outside the Documentary Film Studio, including directors such as Jadwiga Żukowska (1926-2008) and Grażyna Kędzielawska (born 1945) from the Educational Film Studio in Łódź, or Tamara Sołoniewicz (1938-2000) who directed documentaries for television.
Their full filmographies (in Polish) are available at Film Polski.