{"id":2920,"date":"2022-03-31T11:00:55","date_gmt":"2022-03-31T09:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmfestivalresearch.org\/?p=2920"},"modified":"2022-04-05T23:04:37","modified_gmt":"2022-04-05T21:04:37","slug":"necs-online-event-spotlight-on-film-festivals-in-ukraine-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.filmfestivalresearch.org\/index.php\/necs-online-event-spotlight-on-film-festivals-in-ukraine-today\/","title":{"rendered":"NECS Online event: Spotlight on film festivals in Ukraine today!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmfestivalresearch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/UA_DocuDays.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"460\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmfestivalresearch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/UA_DocuDays.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2926\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.filmfestivalresearch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/UA_DocuDays.jpg 700w, http:\/\/www.filmfestivalresearch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/UA_DocuDays-300x197.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns are-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:100%\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:100%\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmfestivalresearch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/NECSFUBB.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmfestivalresearch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/NECSFUBB-1024x208.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2950\" width=\"512\" height=\"104\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.filmfestivalresearch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/NECSFUBB-1024x208.png 1024w, http:\/\/www.filmfestivalresearch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/NECSFUBB-300x61.png 300w, http:\/\/www.filmfestivalresearch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/NECSFUBB-768x156.png 768w, http:\/\/www.filmfestivalresearch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/NECSFUBB.png 1107w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>NECS Film Festival Research workgroup &amp; Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF present<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Spotlight on film festivals in Ukraine today!<\/strong> <strong>Accounts, responses, calls to action<\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Online talk with festival organizers from Ukraine<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Wednesday April 6, 2022 19:00\u201320:30 CET; talk in English<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More than a month ago, Russian troops invaded Ukraine. How is the war affecting the film festivals in Ukraine? What impact do the continuing hostilities have on everyday practices for film festivals and for local film and media professionals? This panel discussion brings together Ukrainian festival organizers of all regions in Ukraine to share their accounts of unfolding events and give insights into the current situation at home or in exile. What are responses to the uncertainty of when and how their festivals might be able to resume their work? What can and should be done at other festivals to help?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Speakers<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Viktoria Leshchenko, Program Director of <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/docudays.ua\/eng\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/docudays.ua\/eng\/\" target=\"_blank\">Docudays UA Film Festival<\/a><\/li><li>Yevgeniya Kriegsheim, Head of <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/meetdocsfestival.com\/en\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/meetdocsfestival.com\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kharkiv MeetDocs Film Festival<\/a><\/li><li>Anna Machukh, Executive Director of <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/oiff.com.ua\/en\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/oiff.com.ua\/en\" target=\"_blank\">Odesa International Film Festival<\/a><\/li><li>Bohdan Zhuk, Programmer at the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/molodist.com\/en\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/molodist.com\/en\" target=\"_blank\">International Film Festival Molodist<\/a> \/ <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/molodist.com\/en\/program\/sunny-bunny\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/molodist.com\/en\/program\/sunny-bunny\" target=\"_blank\">Sunny Bunny<\/a><\/li><li>Olha Raiter, Artistic Director and Co-founder of <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/wiz-art.ua\/festival\/en\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/wiz-art.ua\/festival\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lviv International Short Film Festival Wiz-Art<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Moderation<\/strong>: Skadi Loist, Film University Babelsberg &amp; Marijke de Valck, Utrecht University<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Organized <\/strong>with Anastasia Puhach<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hosted by the <strong>Film Festival Research workgroup<\/strong> at <a href=\"https:\/\/necs.org\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/necs.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">NECS <\/a>\u2013 European Network for Cinema and Media Studies &amp; the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.filmuniversitaet.de\/en\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.filmuniversitaet.de\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Register <a href=\"https:\/\/forms.gle\/KnqSF83DCf9YhUJn8\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/forms.gle\/KnqSF83DCf9YhUJn8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">HERE <\/a><\/strong>to attend the Zoom event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">ABOUT THE SPEAKERS<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Viktoria Leshchenko<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI am a dreamer, maker and connector.\u201d Victoria worked at Molodist KIFF from 2007 to 2011. In 2010 she joined the team of Docudays UA International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival, where she was promoted to program director in 2019.&nbsp;Docudays UA International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival is a regular event with the annual 20K attendance in Kyiv and 100K in the regions of Ukraine. In 2020 and 2021, both festival editions took place online at docuspace.org. Member of the IHRFN and DAE. &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Yevgeniya&nbsp;&nbsp;Kriegsheim<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yevgeniya moved from Kharkiv to Berlin in 2008, where she co-founded the production company Boekamp &amp; Kriegsheim GmbH. Since then, she has co-founded two other companies and set up a film festival in her home town Kharkiv: the Kharkiv MeetDocs Film Festival. In the 4 years of its existence, this festival has become the only and the largest venue in the east of the country, uniting Ukrainian and international filmmakers. Yevgeniya\u2019s other companies are Media Frontline e.V, which creates projects and seminars for film-makers and journalists around the globe, and The Thursday Company GmbH, based in Berlin, which produces high-quality documentaries for international streamers and audiences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Anna Machukh<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anna Machukh is co-founder and Executive director of the Ukrainian Film Academy. Since 2017 Ukrainian Film Academy hosts its main Ukrainian Film Award Golden Dzyga, also providing educational workshops and taking parts in processes in the Ukrainian Film Industry.&nbsp;Anna is also co-founder and the Head of project Dzyga MDB (the innovative platform that collect all information about Ukrainian films and filmmakers). Anna has worked as Head of Marketing at the film distribution company Arthouse Traffic as Head of Marketing for Odesa International Film Festival and has been the Executive director of Odesa International Film Festival since 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Bohdan&nbsp;Zhuk&nbsp;<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bohdan&nbsp;Zhuk&nbsp;is a programmer for the International Film Festival&nbsp;Molodist in Kyiv, Ukraine\u2019s biggest film event. With education in linguistics and professional&nbsp;background as translator, journalist and radio host, he joined the&nbsp;Molodist team in 2014 as a press attach\u00e9 and programmer. He has been&nbsp;programming the competition and non-competition sections of Molodist and&nbsp;curates its LGBT+ programme Sunny Bunny, Ukraine\u2019s oldest regular&nbsp;LGBT+themed event (since 2001).&nbsp;Zhuk&nbsp;also manages international events&nbsp;of Molodist dedicated to Ukrainian films and sits on programming committees and jury of various film festivals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Olha Raiter&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Olha is Programme director and co-founder of Lviv International Short Film Festival, one of the most visible and influential film events in Ukraine.&nbsp;She graduated from the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv in Slavic Philology, Cultural Studies, and Lviv Business School. She worked as a film commissioner, tourist-guide, copywriter and a waitress once. Currently a curator and program manager of America House Lviv, she is also an inspirator of the Big Short online cinema, a place for short films in Ukraine. Olha is a member of Ukrainian Film Academy, SOFA alumni, and part of the world&#8217;s Aspen Community Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Anastasia Puhach<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Born in Donetsk Anastasia escaped from war in 2014 and settled in Kyiv where she lived when Russia invaded Ukraine. She collaborated in various theatre projects with displaced people from Donbas and teenagers on the territory of Donetsk and Luhansk region near that time frontline.&nbsp;More recently she has been Program Director of the project Kinovernissage in Kyiv which promoted Ukrainian cinema. Anastasia also worked for two smaller regional film festivals in Ukraine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NECS Film Festival Research workgroup &amp; Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF present Spotlight on film festivals in Ukraine today! Accounts, responses, calls to action Online talk with festival organizers from Ukraine Wednesday April 6, 2022 19:00\u201320:30 CET; talk in English &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmfestivalresearch.org\/index.php\/necs-online-event-spotlight-on-film-festivals-in-ukraine-today\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,48],"tags":[121,120],"class_list":["post-2920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film-festival","category-necs-film-festival-research-workgroup","tag-online-event","tag-ukraine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.filmfestivalresearch.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.filmfestivalresearch.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.filmfestivalresearch.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.filmfestivalresearch.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.filmfestivalresearch.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2920"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"http:\/\/www.filmfestivalresearch.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2955,"href":"http:\/\/www.filmfestivalresearch.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2920\/revisions\/2955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.filmfestivalresearch.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.filmfestivalresearch.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.filmfestivalresearch.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}