Mission

Our goal and biggest passion is to create movies.

The most important thing for us is the story. We try to search for the most interesting plots and characters. The fundamental element of our work is always the script. We create, write, change, cut, help and realise scripts.

We are looking for the most talented people for our projects: young, promising, often before their debut, but always promising. They love cinema as much as we do. Together, we make intriguing feature films, addictive series and moving documentaries.

We also like to pass on our knowledge to others, which is why for years we have been running workshops aimed at directing young filmmakers, instilling in them an absolute love for cinema, but above all, teaching them to write film and TV scripts that we would like to produce ourselves. Our workshops are also a small, private talent incubator for us. And many graduates stay with us for years.

  • We really love movies, and that's what drives us to do the work every day!

Team

We make a good team. Screenwriters, directors, cinematographers, line producers, marketing specialists, but also our students, graduates and partners. We are all one great Bahama Films community.

Team members have worked on big international films, TV and advertising projects, but also on small and off projects, both artistic and more commercial. We have worked for the largest (including HBO, Netflix, Viaplay, Canal+, TVP, TVN, Polsat, Endemol and Monolith Films), the smaller ones (including ATM, Constantin Entertainment, Paprika and TV Nova) and the smallest who are just starting out.

Each new project is a new challenge for us. We try to do our best during the implementation, not forgetting to smile and have fun, which we always have inextricably linked with work. After all, we are BAHAMA FILMS!

Capitan

The team is headed by its captain, Wiktor Piątkowski.

Wiktor Piątkowski

Screenwriter, producer, lecturer, originator and founder of Bahama Films. Wiktor Piątkowski created and co-wrote HBO’s first original series produced in Poland (Wataha) and the first Polish romantic comedy produced by Netflix (Squared Love). Over the last 11 years he has worked as showrunner, head writer, screenwriter and producer on various shows (crime series, soap operas, scripted reality, period dramas, sitcom), with more than 1000 hours of TV produced). A sitcom he co-created and co-wrote, Just Push Abuba, premiered in 2018 on ZDF. Wiktor is the head writer of the first Polish TV series produced by Viaplay (Murderesses), the first co-production between Canal+ and Polsat (Sortownia) and the first political thriller series produced by Polsat (Vote of no Confidence). Wiktor’s filmography includes, among others, the feature films Heart Parade (Netflix) and Holidays Backwards (which he also produced), and the TV series War Girls.

Wiktor graduated from the Polish National Film School in Łódź, the Warsaw School of Economics, and Warsaw University (psychology), and is an alumnus of Serial Eyes (organized by the Deutsche Film and Fernsehakademie Berlin, and the London Film School), European TV Drama Series Lab, European Showrunner Training, and Racconti and Berlinale Talents. He has participated in many screenwriting courses, led by, among others Syd Field, John Truby, Robert McKee, Linda Seger, Dov Simens, Glen Benest and Sammy Montana. The list of his mentors includes James V. Hart (Dracula, Hook, Contact), Frank Spotnitz (The X Files, The Man in the High Castle), Graham Yost (Speed, Justified) and Jeff Melvoin (Northern Exposure, Designated Survivor, Killing Eve).

Wiktor Piątkowski is also a member of SEAN, the Dirty Dozen Collective, the Polish Filmmakers Association (SFP) and the Polish Screenwriters’ Guild. He has a PhD in television marketing, runs screenwriting workshops in Poland and abroad, and manages Bahama Films, an independent production company based in Warsaw.