The programme for supporting the professional trips of Ukrainian filmmakers was launched in October. The organisers have reached their decisions and chosen the finalists among 28 applicants whose applications have passed the technical selection.
The initiative will help professionals in the field of filmmaking to fund their business trips to festivals, workshops, project pitchings, and conferences between 1 January and 1 June next year.
Support will be received by:
1. Maryna Maikovska, editor. Participation in a film screening at a festival.
2. Mykhailo Masloboyshchykov, director. Participation in Film Bridge Ukraine / Warsaw, Poland.
3. Vladyslav Odudenko, production designer. International Film Festival Rotterdam 2024 / Rotterdam, Netherlands.
4. Liuba Knorozok, producer. When East Meets West / Trieste, Italy.
5. Oleksandr Shpyliuk, festival programmer. Berlin International Film Festival / Berlin, Germany.
6. Maria Shevchenko, director. Ex Oriente Workshop / Prague, Czech Republic.
7. Inna Lastochkina, producer. Midpoint Shorts 2023-2024 from MIDPOINT Institute in collaboration with When East Meets West and the Trieste Film Festival / Trieste, Italy.
8. Oksana Syharieva, director and producer. Berlinale European Film Market 2024 / Berlin, Germany.
9. Anastasia Puhach, executive producer / executive director UP UA STUDIO. Berlinale European Film Market 2024 / Berlin, Germany.
10. Ella Shtyka, producer. When East Meets West / Trieste, Italy.
11. Nadia Parfan, director. London Shorts Film Festival / London, UK.
12. Zhanna Maksymenko-Dovhych, director. Marché du Film / Cannes, France.
“The DOCU/HELP support initiative for Ukrainian filmmakers has been made possible by donations from our international colleagues, friends and partners. DOCU/HELP was created at the beginning of the full-scale invasion: at first we helped filmmakers by providing them with the most necessary filming equipment, that is, equipment without which they would not have been able to continue filming (batteries, hard drives, memory cards, chargers, adapters, microphones, lenses, etc.). We covered fuel, medicine and first aid equipment costs, as well as basic needs in emergency situations. Then, together with Deutsche Filmakademie e.V. and the Goethe Institut, we launched the FILMBOOST stipend programme. We also initiated tactical medicine courses for documentary filmmakers and provided them with power stations. And now we are continuing the initiative in the format of helping filmmakers go on professional trips. We are grateful to everyone who has donated and joined the process, and we are happy to be able to support our colleagues,” say Darya Bassel and Vika Khomenko, the DOCU/PRO team.
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Docudays is a non-profit non-governmental organisation which realises cultural and educational projects on the intersection of cinema and human rights in Ukraine and abroad. These projects include the Docudays UA International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival and the Travelling Docudays UA International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival, the DOCU/CLUB Network of Human Rights Media Education Film Clubs, the RIGHTS NOW! Human Rights Programme, the DOCUSPACE Online Cinema, the DOCU/PRO Platform for the development of the Ukrainian film industry and the DOCU/CLASS Documentary Workshop, the DOCU/SYNTHESIS Interdisciplinary Art Programme, and the Ukraine War Archive, launched in cooperation with the INFOSCOPE initiative.
