Bożena Bogdziewicz-Önkol received her M.A. at Warsaw University, majoring in journalism and communication. She worked as a journalist in Poland, Spain, Belgium, Italy, and New York. She started making short films in Barcelona as a student of audiovisual communication. Bożena continued her studies in Media Arts as a writer and director in the M.F.A. program at the City College of New York. Bożena has collaborated with film industry professionals including Andrzej Wajda, Harvey Keitel and Janusz Kaminski (two-time Oscar winner and DP of Steven Spielberg), Alvaro Longoria (Producer of Steven Soderbergh's Guerilla, Olivier Stone's Commandant, and Carlos Saura's Iberia). 

She has worked as an Associate Producer and International Development Specialist for various international production companies. In addition to her work in film, she has helmed projects as a theatre director and producer at Moliere Theatre and American Theatre in Brussels. Bożena speaks seven foreign languages and has worked in multicultural environments. She directed several short movies (documentaries and fictions) and a commercial to raise social awareness for the Polish Red Cross.  Between 2015-2016 Bożena joined forces with Ewa Szwarc to work for her production company (Kosmos Production) as writer/director/producer. In 2016 she was selected for EAVE Ties that Bind program for European and Asian producers that took place in Italy and Singapore. In 2017 Bozena participated in MFI Screenwriting Workshop in Greece with her new script  "On the other side of the mirror". Since the beginning of 2016, Bożena works as an independent film expert for Media Program at the European Commission's Agency-EACEA.In December 2020 she opened her production company in Brussels (Belgium), Bo Dream Productions.