Maria Kapala is a Polish film director, screenwriter and choreographer. For over 10 years Maria had been working as a physical theatre actress and dancer before she shifted her focus and artistic practice to videodance and film. In 2020 she graduated from the MA Sreendance at LCDS / The Place. From 2021, after moving back to Poland, she has been a leader of Pracownia Wyobraźni Foundation, an NGO working on providing access to culture in rural areas of Poland.

Interested in both documentary and live action films, she has been developing her first feature film alongside a short documentary film about the Polish minority living in Kazakhstan.