Justyna Hanna Budzik – PhD with habilitation, assistant professor at the Institute of Cultural Studies at the University of Silesia in Katowice. Film scholar and teacher of Polish as a foreign language. An expert with the Film Educators' Team, she collaborates with various visual education programs. Author of the books Polish Film and Photography of the New Century in the Context of Visual Culture (2023), Film Wonders and Magic Tricks: Sketches from the Archaeology of Cinema (2015), and The Touch of Light: On the Sensory Experience of Cinema (2012). Co-author (with Agnieszka Tambor) of The Polish Film Shelf: Live-Action and Animated Short Films in Teaching Polish as a Foreign Language (2018). She has lectured at universities in France and the United States.