Josef Kubota Wladyka

Directing

Josef Kubota Wladyka

Born

1981-09-21 (45)

Place of birth

Fairfax, Virginia, USA

Known for

Directing

Credits

10 titles

Josef Kubota Wladyka was born the youngest of three sons. His Japanese mother and Polish father share a deep passion for dance, photography, and cinema. They influenced him to begin experimenting with filmmaking in high school. Since then, his short films and commercials have been screened at festivals around the world and on Jet Blue Airlines; granting him a nomination for a Young Director's award and the Porsche student advertising award. Wladyka is a Faculty Fellow, and recipient of the Spike Lee Fellowship Award at NYU's Tisch Gradate Film School. "Manos Sucias" [2014] is his feature film debut. When not working, Josef can be found on the Brooklyn basketball courts, typically losing to …

Known for

Behind the camera

Catch the Fair One poster
6.4

A Native American boxer embarks on the fight of her life when she goes in search of her missing sister.

Catch the Fair One

2022

Catch the Fair One poster
6.4

A Native American boxer embarks on the fight of her life when she goes in search of her missing sister.

Catch the Fair One

2022

Catch the Fair One poster
6.4

A Native American boxer embarks on the fight of her life when she goes in search of her missing sister.

Catch the Fair One

2022

Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty! poster
8.5

Haru and Luis love competing in Tokyo’s ballroom dance scene, but after tragedy strikes, Haru withdraws into isolation. When friends coax her back to the studio, she develops an infatuation with the new instructor. She must face what comes next as sparks fly.

Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty!

2026

Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty! poster
8.5

Haru and Luis love competing in Tokyo’s ballroom dance scene, but after tragedy strikes, Haru withdraws into isolation. When friends coax her back to the studio, she develops an infatuation with the new instructor. She must face what comes next as sparks fly.

Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty!

2026

Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty! poster
8.5

Haru and Luis love competing in Tokyo’s ballroom dance scene, but after tragedy strikes, Haru withdraws into isolation. When friends coax her back to the studio, she develops an infatuation with the new instructor. She must face what comes next as sparks fly.

Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty!

2026

Dirty Hands poster
6.6

Towing a submerged torpedo in the wake of their battered fishing boat, a desperate fisherman and a naive kid embark on a journey trafficking millions of dollars worth of cocaine. Shot entirely on location along the Pacific coast of Colombia—in areas that bear the indelible scars of the drug trade—Manos Sucias refuses to glamorize the drug trade but rather seeks to offer a rare glimpse of its devastating effects.

Dirty Hands

2014

Dirty Hands poster
6.6

Towing a submerged torpedo in the wake of their battered fishing boat, a desperate fisherman and a naive kid embark on a journey trafficking millions of dollars worth of cocaine. Shot entirely on location along the Pacific coast of Colombia—in areas that bear the indelible scars of the drug trade—Manos Sucias refuses to glamorize the drug trade but rather seeks to offer a rare glimpse of its devastating effects.

Dirty Hands

2014

No artwork available
NR

Blake and Justin have always shared the same dream, making movies. Their mentor is Robert Rodriquez and their film school is his book "Rebel Without A Crew". They worship the film making philosophies of Robert Rodriquez, one of them being, "you have to make 30 bad films before you make a good one". On their 29th film they manage to lock an extra in the trunk and forget about him for five days.

The Rebel

2006

No artwork available
NR

Blake and Justin have always shared the same dream, making movies. Their mentor is Robert Rodriquez and their film school is his book "Rebel Without A Crew". They worship the film making philosophies of Robert Rodriquez, one of them being, "you have to make 30 bad films before you make a good one". On their 29th film they manage to lock an extra in the trunk and forget about him for five days.

The Rebel

2006