Actress of theater and cinema. Honored Artist of Ukraine.

Winner of national awards, participant in international theater and film festivals. For several years in a row, he has been in the top known artists and public figures for the versions of “New Time” and “Focus”. Winner of national film awards: “Golden Ball” (Best Supporting Actress 2018) and “Kinokol” (Best Actress 2018) “Brahma” dir. V. Silent.

Double winner of the 2006 national television teletriumph award in the field of television “Lesia + Roma”. ICTV directed by O.Daruga and O. Bogdanenko

“Letter of Expectation” (Best Actress of a Film, TV Series) 2012 Film.ua. dir. A. Chernykh.

Winner of the 2007 Idol of the Year award from ELLE (Best Actress).

Laureate of the National Charity Ukraine Award for the Oscar and the Pink Lady project, dir. R. Derzhipilsky, where Vitovskaya played the leading role and is also the initiator and creative producer of a project designed to help the development of the child palliative system in Ukraine. The project received the blessing of the Council of Churches of Ukraine and won the 2016 Kyiv Pectoral Grand Prix.

The project is the first Mirror of the Scene Award from the 2016 Mirror of the Week.

Irma Vitovskaya created the image of Gertrude in R.Derzhipilsky’s project “HAMLET”, which became the winner of the national theater prize “Game” in 2018.

The winner of the theatrical awards “Kyiv Pectoral” (Best Actress) 2016 and “Melpomena Tavriya” (Best Actress) 2016 for the movie “Stalkers” dir. S. Zhirkov.

Winner of the 2018 Woman of the Year Award.

Vitovskaya is the first winner of the “Women in art” award from “HeForShe” in the category “theater and cinema”, created by the Ukrainian Institute at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the United Nations in 2019.

The winner of the “Golden Duke” at the OIFF in 2019. Best Acting. The movie “My thoughts are quiet” dir. Antonio Lukic.

Antonio Lukic’s “My Thoughts Is Quiet” won the Crystal Globe at the 54th Karlovy Vary Class A International Film Festival, won the Audience Award and received the FIPRESCI Award at the 2019 OIFF.

She is an active advocate of cultural reform and is an active public figure.

Actress of Kyiv Academic Young Theater

Awards

2019 The best acting work in the national competition of the Odessa IFF

Filmography

2013 March to July – editor in web-documentary project „Reality” (www.realnost.com)

2013 – “Between us” 34 min, doc short film (documentary student film of School of documentary films and theatre of Marina Razbezhkina and Mikhail Ugarov)

2014 – “Lenin’s teeth” and “Masha’s peaceful protest”, doc novels – “Euromaidan. Rough cut”; almanac

2015 – “Away”, 11 min, fiction

2015 – “Maidan is everywhere”, 37 min, doc

2016 – “Condensed”, 7 min, fiction

2017 – “Lilac”, 30 min, fiction

2018 – “Crocodile”, 23 min, fiction

Awards and festivals:

1. “Away” :

Molodist IFF (Kyiv, Ukraine), 2015 – Best Ukrainian short film

Wiz-Art IFF (Lviv, Ukraine), 2015 – Best Ukrainian short film

OIFF (Odesa, Ukraine), 2015 – Best acting award of the national competition

Cottbus IFF (Cottbus, Germany), 2015 – short film competition

2. “Maidan is everywhere”:

Docudays UA (Kyiv, Ukraine), 2016 – Andriy Matrosov Award

3. “Lilac”:

OIFF (Odesa, Ukraine), 2017 – Special mention of the national short competitiom jury, FIPRESCI award

Molodist IFF (Kyiv, Ukraine), 2017- national short film competition

KISFF (Kyiv, Ukraine), 2018 – Special mention of the national short competitiom jury

4. Full-length film project “The Floor Is Lava”:

took part at industrial sections and was awarded

OIFF (Odesa, Ukraine), 2017 – Best pitch award

Connecting Cottbus (Cottbus, Germany), 2017 – Best pitch and Producers’ Network award

Tallin Co-Production Market (Tallinn, Estonia), 2017

East-West Talent Lab at GoEast Film Festival (Wiesbaden, Germany), 2018

New Horizons Studio+ at New Horizons FF (Wroclaw, Poland), 2018 – New Horizons Association & London Film Academy Main Award.

Playwriter, scriptwriter

Maksym lives in Kyiv.

Education:

1999 Literary Institute. M. Gorky. Specialty: Playwriting

1996 Kyiv National University. T. Shevchenko. Specialty: archeology

Scripts:

2019 “The Konotop Battle”

2018 Vincent (Together with Natalia Vorozhbit)

2012 “At the edge of the unknown sea”

2010 “The Poor in Space”

2009 Shorts for “Les”, “Not ashamed”, “Have Fun” Scripts

1992 “Caesarion”, short film scripts “I’ll call you Galya”, “Something that was a monkey”.

Plays:

Askold Deer, Medea Fighter, Carpathian Captain Right, Opus mixtum, Steel Will, Kitchen, Fucking Vodka TV, Depress and Excite, About Mila and its backup inactive “,” Lunopat, “” Bent Bentchev’s Class, “” Titii Flawless, “” Herbivores, “” Candide, “” Wife of Me, “” Dulcey and Roxy in City Hall, “” Oedipus. Wind or Cold. ” , Ryufobia, Kherson, Lavra.

Main theater productions:

2018 Asexuals, Wild Theater. Director Igor Bilits

2018 Kherson Theater. Kulisha. Director Andrew May

2018 Ryufobia, Telakka Theater. Directed by Barbara Fayer

2017 Fucking Vodka TV, Migrant Theater. Directed by Georg Genoa

2016 “Be still, Oedipus”, Theater.doc. Director Vladimir Mirzoev

2016 Medea Fighter, PostPlay Theater Director Galina Dzhikaeva

2015 “Titii Flawless”, Pokrovsky Chamber Music Theater. Director Vladimir Mirzoev

2014 “Switch”, Theater.doc. Director Dmitry Brusnikin

2014 “Dulcey and Roxy at City Hall,” The Breaking String Theater. Directed by Graham Schmidt

2013 Herbivores, Meyerhold Center. Director Talgat Batalov

2012 “The Schooling of Bento Bonchev”, The Breaking String Theater. Directed by Graham Schmidt

2010 Bent Bentchev Class, TSD them. Kazantseva and Roshchina. Directed by Mikhail Ugarov

2008 “Suppress and Excite”, Et Cetera. Director Alexander Kalyagin

2003 “Transfer”, TSD them. A. Kazantseva and M. Roshchina, Director Mikhail Ugarov

2002 Imago, producer of Face Fashion. Director Nina Chusova

2001 “Stalyova Volya”, Kyiv Academic Young Theater. Director Dmitry Bogomazov

2000 Kitchen, Theater Society 814. Director Oleg Menshikov

1999 Captain Carpathian Law, O. Pushkin Theater Director Alexei Litvin

1996 “Medea Fighter”, Lietuvos rusų dramos teatras. Director Alexander Velikovsky

Director’s work:

2016 Orientalist. Short Film (with Anastasia Mateshko)

2004 “Vodka Fucking TV”. Video

Educational programs:

2003 International Writing Program, The University of Iowa

Books:

2006 “Imago and other plays as well as Lunopat”. Publishers of Korovaknya

2005 Kitchen. Plays. Exmo Publishing House

2001 “La derniere volonte du capitaine du” Carpatie “. Publisher” Les solitaires intempestifs “

1998 “Steel Will”. New Play Series. The Golden Mask and the New Writing Project

2017 Dr. Richter (TV series).

2015 Slit. Short film. Director Vasily Barkhatov.

2014 Excavation. Director Sergey Dakhin

2011 Atomic Ivan. Director Vasily Barkhatov

2009 “Short circuit” (movie almanac). The novella “Shame”. Director Boris Khlebnikov

2008 “Love on the District” (TV series)

2007 Thirty Years Old (TV Series)

2002 “Passionate and compassionate contemplation” (film performance). Director Vladimir Mirzoev

PRODUCER

BOSONFILM (UKRAINE)

Aleksandra is a Ukrainian producer, based in Kyiv. Graduated from The Kyiv National Economic University in 2008. Since 2007 works in the film industry. At first as a line producer, producing TV films, documentaries, and TV shows. Since 2013 works as a freelance line and executive producer on the numerous feature films, mostly international co-productions. As executive producer her credits include La Semaine de la Critique award-winning Ukrainian hit THE TRIBE, by director Myroslav Slaboshpitskiy, and Official selection to this year Un certain regard competition EVGE by Nariman Aliev. During last years Aleksandra was focused on the developing of her projects, and projects, where she was attached as a development producer for other companies. These projects were developed through Midpoint Intensive, Midpoint Feature Launch, and were selected for Connecting Cottbus Co-production Market, Les Arcs Co-production Village, Baltic Event, Frontierés Co-production Market, and others. In 2018 she established her own production company BOSONFILM. Aleksandra was selected for EWA mentoring programme 2019, and, as Development Angel, for Less Is More workshop 2019. She is alumni of MAIA Producers Workshop 2018, and participant of Cannes Producers Network 2019, EAVE on-demand session on strategic film marketing 2017, Producers Workshop New York Film Academy 2016, and Directors Across Borders 2013. Her current project as a producer is a debut feature film PAMFIR, by Ukrainian director Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk, which was recently selected for the Cinéfondation Residence du Cannes Film Festival, and Sofia Meetings Co-production Market.

SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY:

2020 – GLOWMAN, feature film, 100 min, in production, director Bence Fliegauf

Position: Co-producer

Co-production between M&M Film (Hungary), Manderley Films (Germany) and Limelite (Ukraine)

2019 – EVGE (AKA HOMEWARD), feature film, 100 min, released, director Nariman Aliev

Position: Executive producer

Production of Limelite (Ukraine)

Official Selection- Un certain Regard du Cannes Film Festival, 2019

World sales: Wild Bunch

2019 – STASIS, feature film, 120 min, postproduction, director Mantas Kvedaravicius

Position: Line-producer

Co-production between Studio Uljana Kim(Lithuania), ESSE Production House (Ukraine) andRouge International(France).

Selected for Visions du reel Rough Cut Lab, 2018, and Work-in-progress section of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, 2017

2018 – THE WILD FIELDS (AKA VOROSHILOVGRAD), feature film, 110 min, released,

director Yaroslav Lodygin

Position: Executive producer

Co-production between Limelite (Ukraine) and FilmBrut (Switzerland)

Official selection – Tallinn Black Nights, 2018

Awarded The Connecting Cottbus Best Pitch Award, 2016 and The Connecting Cottbus Work-in-Progress Award, 2017

Participated at EAVE Marketing Workshop

2014 – THE TRIBE, fearure film, 120 min, released, director Myroslav Slaboshpitskiy

Position: Executive producer

Production of Garmata Film (Ukraine) with the support of The Hubert Bals Fund

Awarded:

“2014 Cannes Film Festival” La Semaine de la Critique 2014: Nespresso Grand Prize

“France 4 Visionary Award” France 4 Visionary Award, Gan Foundation Support for Distribution Award

“European Film Academy” European Film Academy Awards 2014: Prix FIPRESCI

London Film Festival 2014: Sutherland Award and Young Jury Award

Official selection for 40+ international film festivals

World sales: Alpha Violet

Director and scriptwriter

Filmography

2019 DESATURATED. Short comedy visual (10 ‘) Ukraine. Director, scriptwriter.

2017 FALLING. Feature film (105 ‘) Ukraine. Director and scriptwriter.

Karlovy Vary International Film Festival – “From West to East” Competition Program

Haifa International Film Festival

Festival International de Cinema d’Auteur de Rabat – Award for Best Acting

Stockholm International Film Festival is the main competition program

Camerimage International Film Festival – Competition “Operator Debuts”

Scanorama – Crossing Europe

Cairo International Film Festival – international panorama

Tbilisi International Film Festival is the main competition program

Festival Premiers Plans d’Angers – main competition program, Prize them. Jeanne Moreau (viewers sympathies)

Let Cee IFF is the main competition program

GoEast IFF (Wiesbaden) is the main competition program

Seattle International Film Festival – Contemporary World CinemaFestival International du Film de la RochelleCeau, Cinema! Film Festival in Timişoara – Audience Award and Best Debut

Burgas International Film Festival – Danny Lerner Award (Best Feature Film) Festival Nuovo Cinema Europa 2018 – Competition Program (Best Actor)

Silk Road IFF (Sean, China) – Best Actor Award

National Golden Jigsaw Award: Best Actress Award to Dasha Plachti

Award to the best sound director Sergei Stepansky

Award to the best composer Nikita Moiseev

2015  MEN’S WORK. Short feature film (15 ‘). Director and scriptwriter.

Ukraine-Austria co-production.

Best Short Film of Odessa International Film Festival and Prize for Best Acting Ensemble of “Molodist” Film Festival

2013 VACATION. Short feature film, (31 ‘). Director, screenwriter, cameraman.

2004 HEAR. Short feature film, (12) Director, screenwriter.