Kinga Burza was born in Poland and raised in Sydney and Melbourne, Australia before moving to London in 2005 and signing with respected film production company Partizan of Michel Gondry fame in 2006.
She completed a BA at the University of New South Wales, before she went onto postgraduate studies in Theatre and Film at UTS in Sydney. Whilst studying at university, Kinga began teaching herself by making amateur videos for her then boyfriend Sydney musician Jack Ladder and many other friends she had in bands.
Since being in the UK, Kinga has shot videos for M.Craft, The Thrills, The Rakes, The Teenagers, Tilly and the Wall, Calvin Harris, Kate Nash, Ladyhawke, Peaches, James Blunt, Marina and the Diamonds and recent Billboard No. 1 newcomer Katy Perry in LA.
Promo Magazine has dubbed Kinga to be among ‘the next wave of up-and-coming directors’ while both I-D and Dazed and Confused Magazine have also run features on her. She was nominated Best New Director at the CAD Awards in 2007 and won a Young Gun award for Music Video Direction for Kate Nash’s “Foundations” in 2007.
Katy Perry’s “I Kissed a Girl” reached No.1 on the BillBoard charts.
In 2008 Kinga won Best Pop Video at the UK Video Music Awards in London for Kate Nash’s “Foundations”.