Marianna Palka

Marianna Palka

Birthday: 1981-09-07

Place of Birth: Glasgow, Scotland, UK

Biography: Marianna Bronislawa Barbara Palka (born 7 September 1981) is a Scottish actress and filmmaker. She is the writer, director and star of the film Good Dick, which screened at the Sundance Film Festival Palka was born to Polish immigrant parents in Glasgow, Scotland. At the age of 17, Palka moved to New York City to study at the Atlantic Theater Company.

Movies

Collection
Collection

A grieving father grapples with the seedy, manipulative world of high stakes debt collection while s...

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Good Dick
Good Dick

A fidgety, wisecracking video store clerk develops a fixation on a particularly reclusive customer, ...

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Neds
Neds

NEDs (Non Educated Delinquents) is the story of a young man’s journey from prize-winning schoolboy t...

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When You Find Me
When You Find Me

A young boy asks his pregnant mother if he will like his baby brother, and he asks her if she has a ...

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Seeing is Believing: Women Direct
Seeing is Believing: Women Direct

“We are the stories we tell ourselves.” Seeing is Believing: Women Direct is a documentary series a...

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The Adventures of Thomasina Sawyer
The Adventures of Thomasina Sawyer

Tom Sawyer, Huck Finn, and Becky Thatcher have the adventure of a lifetime after witnessing an innoc...

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Spoonful
Spoonful

Three sisters pack up their family home after the death of their father. Anna, the eldest, is put in...

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The Lion's Mouth Opens
The Lion's Mouth Opens

A documentary on filmmaker Marianna Palka, as she confronts her risk of Huntington's Disease....

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Contracted: Phase II
Contracted: Phase II

Picking up directly where the previous film left off, the story follows Riley, one of the last peopl...

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Pant Suits
Pant Suits

In 1972, an ambitious female computer programmer must maneuver the minefield of a man's world in ord...

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Mississippi Requiem
Mississippi Requiem

A collection of four short films based on stories written by William Faulkner....

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Bitch
Bitch

A woman snaps and assumes the psyche of a vicious dog as her checked-out, philandering husband attem...

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Forever
Forever

An investigative reporter finds the will to live again after discovering an enigmatic commune....

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Restive
Restive

An intensely bizarre tale of a mother who inhabits her husbands suffocating behavior before falling ...

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Scottish Mussel
Scottish Mussel

Ritchie is a Glaswegian chancer with low hopes and no prospects. Disillusioned with city life, he go...

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We Are Boats
We Are Boats

Lives intertwine and connect when Francesca navigates through the living world by encountering stran...

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Love, Danielle
Love, Danielle

Amid family drama and dysfunction, a woman who carries a BRCA gene mutation must decide whether or n...

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