Founds theLinza production company, where he develops the idea of social reporting and documentary in the public sector.
IRYNA KYPORENKO
Born in Crimea, Iryna Kyporenko since the 90s has lived and worked in Odessa. She is a journalist. She has worked with Ukrainian and foreign media as a producer and researcher. She started shooting her first film in 2016, but ended it only in 2019. Since 2017, she has been producer of the Odessa branch of UA:PBC (National Public Broadcasting Company of Ukraine).
FERRY TALE
Three folks, two river banks – the only dream is to be connected bya small ferry across the Danube. It is a story about the river of life, and protagoniststhat go through distance and time to connect cultures, and to preserve identity and the flow of infinite being.
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ANNA KORZH
Anna Korzh is a documentary filmmaker. She graduated from the Kyiv National University of Theatre, Cinema and Television's Department of Television with a Master's degree in 2016. Anna has already directed five documentary films highlighting important but neglected social issues. Her films participated more than twenty international film festivals. 2016 she attended the Interdoc masterclass at Interaction summer school in Serbia. Since 2017, she has worked as a volunteer and organized social projects and film schools for teenagers from frontline zones in Eastern Ukraine. 2019 Anna participated Indie Lab. documentary workshop for young filmmakers with short documentary project "The view from the window" and American Film Showcase workshop at the University of Southern California (USC) in Los Angeles with her debut feature-length music documentary "DakhaBrakha: On the Road".
THE VIEW FROM THE WINDOW
Ruslana is a Ukrainian teenager in anticipation of a desirable and unattainable maturity. Parents do not support her dream - to study in Kyiv to become a cameraman. But she takes the camera and leaves. Ruslana's video-diaries lead us through the streets of a town on war in Eastern Ukraine, leading us on her own path to her dreams.
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VLAD KRASINSKIY
Vlad Krasinskyi was born and lives in Kyiv He is a political reporter. He studied at Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University. He started working as a journalist during the Euromaidan. He films political events and nightlife in Instagramstories. He made his first documentary "FOMO" based on the Euromaidan conflict.
FOMO
A young journalist shoots Instagram stories during significant events. In the daytime he shoots political events, at night – bars and parties. He has to determine where he stands.
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KYRYLO NAUMKO
Kyrylo was born and raised in Odessa. He made his first videos back in school. He graduated from the Faculty of Romano-Germanic Philology at Odessa NationalMechnikov University. At the university, he continued to film and worked on the first documentaries. He made documentaries in Finland and participated 2012 at the InternationalCritics' Week of the Cannes Film Festival. After university for 2 years he worked as a cameraman on a cruise liner. He is currently studying at the Zelig Documentary School in Italy.
I GOTTA TELL YOU SOMETHING
The poetic portrait of the mythical city of Odesa. The bygone Odesa myths are replaced by new characters. The characters that fill in Odesa with new meanings and create its modern history.
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SVITLANA MAHDA
Svitlana Magda is a director-animator from the city of Kharkiv, teacher of animation art, co-organizer of animation festival "Ravlyk Fest"in the city of Berdyansk. She obtains a Master's degree in in Multimedia Arts at Kharkiv Academy of Design and Arts.
THIS IS JUST SPACE
This documentary stop motion animation is an attempt to show the mysterious processes taking place far away in outer space. As simply as we look at the sky the radio astronomers watch the space and various cosmic objects.
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Anton Ryzhych
Anton Ryzhikh was born in Kyrgyzstan in 1987 and moved to Ukraine at the age of six. In his youth he was fond of music and cinema, but never dreamed of making documentaries until he spent his life with original people in Uzhgorod.
THE ONLY ONE EDEN
The story of Alexei Umansky, who decided to start his own radio station. The film shows all stages of the station's creation, from writing a social media post to intentions and celebrating the first anniversary of the existence of Radio Eden.
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Marta Smerechynska
Kyiv National I. K. Karpenko-Kary theatre, cinema and television university
SISTERS
They are elected by the Almighty. Before reaching adulthood, they understood that they were called to be the brides of Christ. Our characters are sisters-nuns of the Ivano-Frankivsk Greek Catholic Monastery. The biological family and the family in Christ. Who is the mother and what is her role in the history of sister's everyday life? And finally, how is it, to invited to become a wife of such a Fiancé.
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Tseliuba Nataliia
Nataliia is born in Zaporizhzhia in 1987. She graduated from art school with a degree artist, designer. 2013-2014 study at the School of Engaged Art Chto Delat'? in St. Petersburg, specializing in contemporary art, works in a range of installations, performance, graphic works and DIY - publishing. In 2014, creates an art project called "Radio Surrealism", within the framework of which he works with various media: installations, DIY zines, performances, happenings, graphics, illustrations, sound, as well as film / video. In 2015, together with her colleague Anna Ten, she creates an independent French-Ukrainian association of curators - Q rators
MY COSMOS
Director returns to her native city and tells a story of her adulting in Cosmos - a neighbourhood in Zaporizhzhia. She tries to define what Cosmos means to her. Is it a self-sufficient universe or traumatic experience, a neighbourhood or sensation? Or maybe it is a half-flimsy cinema? She managed to say goodbye to her first home and changed her life. But is it necessary to say goodbye to space (Cosmos)?
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Lesyk Yakymchuk
When Les graduated from the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy of Journalism, he already knew that he would connect his life with filming, His diploma film, 'What Happens in My House', gave an impulse to other documentary projects. While working for UA TV in 2017, Les shoots the movie "Unbowed" about the Ukrainian team at Invictus Games, and in 2018 he shoots his semi-documentary Si-Fi movie "Grounding". In 2018, he founds theLinza production company, where he develops the idea of social reporting and documentary in the public sector.
BLUR
Blur is a story of two girls who had lost their sight and try to adapt to the new life. Alla and Natalia believe that it's possible to explore the world and to be a part of it without seeing it.