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Get to know Piotr Szkopiak, a London-based film and TV director who’s spent a good portion of his life pondering the nature of his identity. Piotr Szkopiak was born in the United Kingdom but into a Polish family. As he grew up, he learned that his parents were ex-prisoners of war who had escaped the USSR but couldn't go back to Poland after the war ended. His mother told him how she had travelled to the UK, and how after the war this is the place that she had to learn to call home.
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