Member of the Ukrainian Film Academy and the Guild of Directors of Ukraine. Berlinale Talents alumna (Berlin, 2020), the resident of Cité internationale des arts and Les Récollets (Paris, 2022), the Marathon Screenings (Los Angeles, 2023).
Her short fiction The Adult (2019) was presented in the special programme The State of a New Generation within the Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur.
Co-screenwriter of the Polish-Ukrainian project of the TV series “Unspoken”. In February 2023 TV series Unspoken got the main prize for the best pitching at Series Mania in Lille, France.
In 2023 Honeymoon was presented at WEMW co-production platform (Trieste, Italy), connecting cottbus platform (Cottbus, Germany). In 2023-2024 Honeymoon took part in Biennale College Cinema, won the financing of the program for production and was presented as a debut feature at Venice Film Festival 2024.
The development of her second feature film Ground Zero took part in numerous workshops and co-production platforms such as La Fabrique Cinéma 2022, Cinemart 2021 (IFFR), Brussels Bozar Industry Day 2021, New Horizons Studio+ 2021, ScripTeast 2021, Pustnik 2020 and 2022 (for alumni).
In September 2021 Ukrainian film state agency confirmed the majority support of Ground Zero. The shooting was postponed because of the russian full-scale invasion and now is planned for August-September 2026.
platforms / workshops / residencies
2024
Biennale College Cinema, Venice, Italy | Honeymoon
2023
18th Street Arts Center, LA, USA | Ground Zero
Series Mania, France | Unspoken, TV series project
When East Meets West, Trieste, Italy | Honeymoon
connecting cottbus, Cottbus, Germany | Honeymoon
2022
Les Récollets, Paris | Ground Zero
La Cité des arts residence, Paris | Ground Zero
La Fabrique Cinéma, Cannes | Ground Zero
Pustnik for alumni, Romania | Ground Zero
UA NETFLIX program | Unspoken, TV series project
2021
Cinemart (IFF Rotterdam) | Ground Zero
ScripTeast, Poland | Ground Zero
New Horizons Studio+ | Ground Zero
2020
Berlinale talents alumna
Pustnik, Romania | Ground Zero
awards
2025 Grand Prix and Youth Jury Award at Sofia IFF / Honeymoon
2025 2 Special Mentions on Directing and on Screenplay at Cinema Jove
2024 Grand Prix at Kyiv IFF Molodist / Honeymoon
2024 Grand Prix at Arras Film Festival / Honeymoon
2024 Black Lotus, a Ukrainian independent award for best film directing
2024 one of 4 financed projects by Biennale College Cinema / Honeymoon
2023 best pitching at Series Mania in Lille, France / Unspoken
2022 best pitching at La Fabrique Cinéma, Cannes / Ground Zero
2020 Jury Special Mention for script’ pitching, interfilm Berlin Script Lab
story support & lecturing
– script consultation for a debut feature film Hard Subs by Novruz Khikmet
– script consultation for a short film The Mist by Yuri Katynsky
– script consultantion for a debut feature film Dawn Chorus by Mykola Zasieev
– a guest lecturer on dramaturgy for the course Cinema. Producing. Directing.
Mentoring with Valeria Sochivets / Contemporary Ukrainian Cinema
– a host of a script workshop for low-budget short films The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Script
– a lecturer of Keep It Short, a script lab of Lviv ISFF