Sacha Polak
Sacha Polak (born 1982) is a Dutch film director. Career. In 2012 Polak's feature film debut "Hemel" played at the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival. Additionally her short "Brother" and her step-mother Meral Uslu's film on which she was a script supervisor, all played at the festival as well. In 2014 Polak was initially going to direct the film "Vita & Virginia" about the love-affair between Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West but was she replaced by Chanya Button. In 2015 Polak's second film "Zurich" played at the 65th Berlin International Film Festival. Polak 's next feature film was the movie "Dirty God" about a woman who sustained facial burns after an acid attack by her ex-partner. This film won her the Golden Calf award for best direction at the 2019 Netherlands Film Festival. The lead actress in the film, Vicky Knight, won a BAFTA Breakthrough Brits award for new talent at the 2019 British Academy of Film and Television Arts awards. Personal life. Polak's mother died of breast cancer 11 months after she was born. Director Meral Uslu is her step-mother.