Helena Stańczyk is an animated film director and comic book author. She is a graduate of the State High School of Fine Arts in Warsaw and currently a last year student of the Animated Film and Special Effects at The Polish National Film School in Lodz. Her first animated short documentary “49 385” was presented and awarded at numerous International and Polish festivals. Her debut comic book “Neither fish, nor fowl” was selected among the best 150 of the Bologna Children’s Book Fair 2025 and presented at the BRAW Amazing Bookshelf exhibition in Bologna. Privately, she is the great-granddaughter of Alicja Wahl.