JOSEF WLADYKA

CATCH THE
FAIR ONE

Directed and written by client Josef Kubota Wladyka

A former boxer is told that her younger sister, who disappeared two years ago, may be alive in a trafficking network and sets out to find her.

ABOUT Josef Wladyka

Josef is currently in production on the HBO Max series TOKYO VICE s2 as producing director. Previously, Josef directed episodes of ONE PIECE for Netflix and Tomorrow Studios. Josef also directed seven episodes of NARCOS for Netflix, including the first two episodes of NARCOS MEXICO reboot, starring Diego Luna and Michael Pena. He also directed the first two episodes of Season 2 of THE TERROR for AMC, as well as episodes of ANIMAL KINGDOM, FEAR THE WALKING DEAD, and OUTCAST.

Inspiration for Catch The Fair one:

“Through a friend’s boxing gym I found Kali [Reis, main actress of CTFO]. I started to follow her, I started to watch her. It’s one of those things where you just start watching a lot of videos because you just want to see how people do stuff. But then what was really dope to me about her was she used her platform to speak out on things that she really believed in: her motto “fight for all nations,” and what she did for her community, and being this mixed indigenous warrior using her platform. I thought “There is something about this person, I’ve got to meet her.” I was just starting to learn and research about the MMIW crisis in North America. It was becoming more and more prevalent in the news, and I had ideas of a film germinating around it and I knew it was something that she really cared about.” — Josef Wladyka

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