Kuba Witek is a documentary filmmaker, traveler, polar explorer, author of books and songs, former rapper, and an enthusiast of low temperatures. He is a graduate of the University of Central Lancashire.

Although he once enjoyed the hustle and bustle of New York, Paris, London, and Berlin, today he feels most at home in nature, far from the noise of big cities and metropolises. He has been fascinated by the North since 2016, documenting it relentlessly. He has visited Iceland ten times, cycled around the island alone, climbed its highest peak, explored ice caves, and even proposed to his partner by the Vatnajökull glacier. In his directorial debut, he showed Poles how their fellow countrymen cope in the land of ice and fire and why they don’t return home – since then, their numbers on the island have tripled. He spent almost three years in the Faroe Islands, hiking numerous mountain trails and learning about the history and traditions of its inhabitants. The result of these stays are two documentary films, a series, and a book. He has participated in four scientific expeditions to Spitsbergen, where he documented melting glaciers, plastic pollution, the work of scientists in the field, and at the Polish Polar Station Hornsund named after Stanisław Siedlecki, while also avoiding close encounters with polar bears. He cycled through the Lofoten Islands with his fiancée. In Greenland, he filmed a documentary about Adam, a Polish man who was sent to Sisimiut by love, showing that we can find our home anywhere. Together with Daga Bożek, he made a film telling the lesser-known story of women in the first Polish scientific expeditions to the Arctic and Antarctic. “Polarniczki” was produced in co-production with the Educational Film Studio in Łódź, with filming locations in Poland, Spitsbergen, and Antarctica.

His films have been shown at film festivals worldwide and supported or promoted by institutions such as National Geographic, Greenpeace, the Polish Academy of Sciences, the Polar Research Committee, TVN24, and many others.

Kuba is a supporter of a plant-based diet, a minimalist, and cares about climate and ecology.