*screenwriter
Aleksandra Sykulak
*screenwriter
Aleksandra is a BAFTA-winning screenwriter working across fiction, animation and games.
Aleksandra was born and raised in Warsaw and is currently based in London. Her writing occupies the space between tragedy and comedy – always touching on real, tangible feelings, but often through obscure, slightly ironic scenarios. She’s particularly drawn to outsider stories, queer love stories and characters questioning the reality that surrounds them.
Aleksandra is a graduate of The National Film and Television School, where she wrote numerous short films, many of which screened at festivals around the world. Her animated short Crab Day (dir. Ross Stringer) received a BAFTA for Best British Short Animation. Aleksandra is also a graduate of the Wajda School's Dok Pro and Script Pro programs. A game she co-wrote at film school, Vox Vs. The Void was showcased at EGX 2022.
Aleksandra is currently developing both live action and animated projects for TV and for film, including an adaptation of The Storm is Coming by Julia Kahrs for Pulse Films, an original feature film concept currently entitled Untitled Porno Project with Barry Crerar and a TV series based on the award-winning Crab Day.
Aleksandra is also the author of a graphic crime novel El Diablo, and the director of a short documentary, In A Knot, about her grandparents’ turbulent marriage, which premiered at an Oscar-qualifying Kraków Film Festival.
Represented by Marc Simonsson at MMB Creative
