Biography

Kamil Rutkowski has 18 years experience in the motion picture industry. He graduated from Warsaw University of Technology as MSc and Polish Film School in Lodz. During last years he worked in several companies: Studio 128, Lightcraft, The Chimney Pot where he led DI and Digital Film Restoration departments as CTO; and DI Factory where he was a co-owner and CTO. In 2020 he started Black Photon as a co-owner and CEO - post production facility that offers premium-grade feature films and television post production services. He was responsible for R&D, implementing new technologies and technical development of tools and workflows. Created web services and applications for video and audio data management, cinema certificates generation and management like DI KDM, DI View, DI Library. Co-creator of DIVO, CPL-Translator and Fisheye. He was involved in first DIs in Poland, first 4k DI in Europe and led first Digital Cinema distributions. He designs and implements workflows starting from film-set till distribution and archival. Worked as DI Specialist and DI Supervisor on more than 250 movies.

He is also:

• SMPTE Poland chairman
• The Polish Committee for Standardization member and chairman of Technical Committee for Cinematography

He has presented his achievements at international events and schools, such as:

• New York Film School (New York),
• Polish Film School in Lodz
• Krzysztof Kieslowski Film School
• FMX (Stuttgart)
• InsightOut (Berlin)
• IDIFF (Paris)
• Camerimage
• SMPTE events

- IMDb mini biography by: Kamil Rutkowski