Biography

Janusz Madej is an actor, director, producer known for Sh!ft (2018) (premiered at Cannes Film Festival), Resolve (2017), 11 (2014) and Stigma (2011). He was born in Warsaw, Poland and was trained as a ballet dancer in Warsaw School of Ballet and Central School of Ballet in UK. He left Poland when he was 17 to pursue the career of a professional Ballet dancer. He subsequently had a 12 year successful career as a ballet dancer in two world known ballet companies. Northern Ballet Theater in Leeds, UK and 10 years with Dutch National Ballet in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. In 2007 Janusz met in Amsterdam renown Hollywood acting teacher Ivanna Chubbuck who invited him to study acting in her masterclass in Hollywood. After his retirement from ballet in 2008 he moved to Los Angeles to pursue Acting and Filmmaking career. He graduated from The Los Angeles Film School with Science in Film Degree in 2010 and his theses short film STIGMA had since received a critical acclaim and was selected on numerous film festivals around the world. In 2014 his feature film debut "11" was premiered at 18th Temecula Valley Film and Music Festival in California. Janusz in his acting/directing career was fortunate to encounter many Hollywood prominent celebrities such as: Ed Harris, Jon Voight, Peter Bogdanovich, Virginia Madsen, Jemie Kennedy, Jeroen Krabbé, Oren Peli, Billy Dee Williams, Joseph Bologna, Connie Stevens, Brett Ratner, Matt Craven, Patricia Velasquez, Stu Stone, Rob Schneider, to just to name a few. Janusz's experience both in front and behind the camera makes him very accomplished artist that is able to direct actors with ease being an actor himself. His directing/producing experience ranges from feature films through short films to music videos and commercials. Following in foot steps of Polish master directors like Krzysztof Kieslowski and Roman Polanski Janusz specializes in affecting the viewers subconscious mind through technics like Neuro Linguistic Programming (nlp) and always is searching to ad an extra layer of narrative communication in to every project he is part of. In 2010 Janusz started his own film production company called 'Pineal Films Production'. In 2018 he fulfilled his dream by premiering Sh!ft which he produced as part of HP "Masters of Short Film" Competition at Cannes Film Festival. On April 13th, 2013 Janusz founded the Janusz Madej Technique Acting for Camera that offers an acting and filmmaking workshops for the English speaking actors and filmmakers.