Eric Bednarski is a Warsaw-based documentary director/producer who has studied history and filmmaking in North America and Europe.

His work has garnered him a Gemini Award and a Writers Guild of Canada Award nomination, and been broadcast on Canadian, Danish and Polish television. Bednarski's films have also screened at international festivals, at the United Nations, the European Parliament and the State Museum of Auschwitz-Birkenau.

Like The Strangest Dream, his National Film Board of Canada feature length debut, Bednarski’s earlier documentaries display a passion for history.