Immersive workshop
confidence building, difficult conversations, resilience and putting your values first
A workshop by Melanie Iredale, co-founder of Birds Eye View, who will talk about how to build self-confidence and professionalism, have difficult conversations, be resilient and put your values first. Birds Eye View is a UK-based non-profit organization that promotes and helps women and other historically marginalized groups to grow and develop in the film industry.
WHERE?: Zhovten Cinema, Classic hall
WHEN:? 17 November, 17:00
The event is held in English without Ukrainian translation
The lecturers join in online
The event is available online
Melanie Iredale (she/her) is a film curator, cine-activist, and Director of Reclaim The Frame (formerly Birds’ Eye View): a charity with a mission to champion marginalised gender-led films, and to build a community for them.
Prior to this, Melanie was Deputy Director at Sheffield DocFest 2014-2021, and Director of Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival 2009-2014.
Melanie has served on several juries internationally, including the Teddy Awards at Berlinale, and exec produced Rebel Dykes, which brought the queer, ally, and activist communities together at 50+ festivals around the world.
Watch your tongue: mastering gender-neutral language
"Watch Your Tongue" — an open dialogue advocating for inclusive and gender-neutral language use in Ukraine.
WHERE: КINО 42, Konstantinovskaya St, 11B
WHEN:? 18 November, 14:00
The event is held in Ukrainian without English translation
The event is available online
Ivan Verbytskyi - head of CEDOS since 2019. Has been working on research into issues of urban development, civil society, and civil participation. In 2015-2019 worked as an editor and head of the Mistosite project, in 2018-2019 he was the project manager of the Ukrainian Urban Forum.
I’m your staff writer
Discover a new way of fictional development with Artificial Intelligence! Prof. Taç Romey & Markus Walsch introduce you to „CreAItive PingPong“: An organic step by step prompting approach with AI-tools like ChatGPT. Explore a new Writers’ Room experience with AI as a staff writer or virtual audiences. And the most important question: Where does the human being stand in this game? Where do we as artists and creatives find our place in this new world?
WHERE?: КINО 42, Konstantinovskaya St, 11B
WHEN:? 19 November, 14:00
The event is held in English without Ukrainian translation
The lecturers join in online
Prof. Taç Romey is an expert in storytelling, dramaturgy, and film. With a background in acting, directing, and dramaturgy from the Brown University in the USA, he has developed numerous series and films, written scripts, and directed productions.
Markus Walsch is a creative media professional with expertise in AI-aided storytelling and the development of films and TV series. With a background in journalism and digital media production, he has developed numerous TV, radio and online formats for public and private media.
Stanislav Bytiutskyi’s LECTURE
First steps. The history of Ukrainian short films
Cinema began with a short format. Many famous directors started their careers with short films. This became especially noticeable with the advent of film education, where every young director took their first steps by making short films. Thus, a short student film was at the origins of Ukrainian poetic cinema in the 60s, and it was short films that started the boom of Ukrainian cinema in the 90s and the boom of young cinema after the Revolution of Dignity.
WHERE?: KINO 42, Konstantinovskaya St, 11B
WHEN:? 20 November, 18:30
The event is held in Ukrainian without English translation
The event is available online
Stanislav Bytiutskyi was born in Kyiv. He is the curator of the Kyiv Critics’ Week festival and the Head of Research and Program Department at the Dovzhenko Centre. As a director, he debuted in 2014 with the documentary Goodbye, Cinephiles. He won the Kyiv International Short Film Festival in 2017 (24) and received the Kinokolo Award for Best Short Film in 2020 (Intolerance).
Ukrainian animation: short stories
The period of 1960s-1990s remains one of the brightest and most fruitful in the history of Ukrainian animation. It is this period that will be discussed during the lecture. The conversation will be based on three short animated stories that will show how themes, forms, and generations in Ukrainian animation changed during the Soviet period. Together we will try to understand how Ukrainian animators found a place in their works for national themes, criticism of the system, and state propaganda orders.
WHERE?: KINO 42, Konstantinovskaya St, 11B
WHEN:? 20 November, 19:30
The event is held in Ukrainian without English translation
The event is available online
Penzii Aliona is a Dovzhenko Centre film expert, film critic and cultural manager. She works in the Dovzhenko Centre's Research and Program Department, specialising in the history of Ukrainian non-fiction cinema and animation, in particular. She is a member of the KINOKOLO National Film Critics Award Committee, a film critic writer at LB.ua, Ukrainska Pravda, etc.
Presentation of the opportunities of the EU's Creative Europe program for the Ukrainian audiovisual sector
In the program:
- Presentation of the opportunities of the EU's Creative Europe program for the Ukrainian audiovisual sector and filmmakers (conducted by the EU's Creative Europe program office in Ukraine).
- Programs and initiatives of the Ukrainian Cultural Foundation to support Ukrainian cinema.
- Opportunities to support the audiovisual sector and filmmakers from the NGO "Insha Osvita".
WHERE?: KINO 42, Konstantinovskaya St, 11B
WHEN:? 21 November, 18:30
The event is held in Ukrainian without English translation
The event is available online
The workshop by Moon Man Production
Film creation in the context of the full-scale invasion
The workshop by Moon Man Production (Daria Basel and Viktoria Khomenko) is dedicated to finding partners and funding for film projects in the context of the full-scale invasion. Finding suitable industry projects, preparing for pitching, preparing materials, and important highlights.
WHERE?: KINO 42, Konstantinovskaya St, 11B
WHEN:? 22 November, 17:40
The event is held in Ukrainian without English translation
The event is available online
Vika Khomenko started her producer’s career in 2017, first as a line producer of short films. Her feature debut as a producer was the coming-of-age drama STOP-ZEMLIA (dir.Kateryna Gornostai), awarded the Crystal Bear of the Youth Jury Generation 14+ at Berlinale21. Also, she has experience in communication and as an event coordinator. In 2015, she joined the IDHRFF Docudays UA team, where she works now as a coordinator of the industry platform. Lives and works in Kyiv.
Darya Bassel used to work in TV and commercial production. In 2011, she joined Docudays UA IHRDFF, where she worked as a programmer and later as head of the industry platform. Has participated in the Eurodoc, Producers Network (Marché du Film), Ex Oriente and EAVE, and also served as a jury member at festivals such as Visions du reel, IDFA, Cinedoc Tbilisi, Astra, OIFF, One World Prague and Krakow IFF.
Майстерклас з пітчингу кінопроєктів
A workshop on preparing for international pitching for Ukrainian filmmakers, which should strengthen their ability to find international partners.
WHERE?: KINO 42, Konstantinovskaya St, 11B
WHEN:? 22 November, 18:55
The event is held in English without Ukrainian translation
The lecturers join in online
Gabriel Brunnenmeyer is a script mentor, pitching coach and project consultant. Alongside consulting on script development, packaging, and pitching for individual projects, she consults for several European Training Programsas HerArts FilmLab, Midpoint Feature Launch, Cutting Edge Talent Camp, Baltic Pitching Forum, Euro Connection Clermont- Ferrand, Cannes Court Métrage, AKM, Berlinale Talents & Sarajevo Talents and many others.