DOCU/PRO People

Illya Gladstein

DOCU/PRO Expert: MEET PROFESSIONALS

Co-owner and managing partner of the KINO42 cinema theatre, owner of the 86PROKAT rental company, and producer at Phalanstery Films production. From 2014 until 2018, he was the co-founder and programming director of the Festival of Film and Urbanism 86.

 

The world premiere of Heat Singers, produced by Illya in 2019, took place at the Visions du Réel festival; it has become one of the most successful documentaries in Ukrainian cinema and the first Ukrainian documentary film purchased by the largest Japanese TV channel NHK.

 

Areas of expertise: distribution, promo-producing and documentary cinema production.