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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