Emilia Mazik has a degree in Cultural Management and in Philosophy from Jagiellonian University in Cracow. Since 2014 she has worked for Short Waves Festival, an international short film festival from Poznań, Poland, from 2019 as a festival director. In 2020 she joined the editorial team of Talking Shorts, an online film magazine dedicated to short films. In 2021, as a representative of European Short Film Network, she was among the founders of This Is Short platform.