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Meet the Docudays UA-2025 Student Jury!

11 April 2025
We are pleased to announce the results of the open selection and introduce you to the members of the Docudays UA-2025 student jury! This year, they will select their winners in the international DOCU/WORLD competition.

Oksana Predachenko is a Karpenko-Kary Kyiv National University of Theater, Cinema and Television student, majoring in film studies. She has been working in the book industry since 2015. Now, she works  at the Ukrainian publishing house ArtHuss, promoting literature on visual culture and film production. She has published several academic works during her studies and is now researching the development of Ukrainian childrenʼs cinema.

Oleksandra Horienko is a filmmaker born in Dnipro. She is currently pursuing a degree in Film Editing (Mykola Bazarkin workshop) at the Karpenko-Kary Kyiv National University of Theater, Cinema and Television. She also studied cultural management at the DCCC Art Center. She is developing a documentary film, Professional Destroyers of the Russian Economy, as part of the Indie Lab and participating in international workshops for documentarians, including Ji.hlava Academy, AZIL, and WAMA IFF. Her debut film Uzhhorod, to the Shelter was shown at international festivals, including Vienna Shorts, Ivano-Frankivsk International Short Film Festival 4:3, UKRAINA! Film Festival, and others.

Daniel Chernenko is a student at the Karpenko-Kary Kyiv National University of Theater, Cinema and Television, majoring in cinematography ( Bohdan Verzhbytskyi workshop). He works as a marketing specialist at the Zhovten Cinema in Kyiv and leads the Zhovten Film Club.

The 22nd Docudays UA is held with the financial support of the European Union, the Embassy of Sweden in Ukraine, International Renaissance Foundation. The opinions, conclusions, or recommendations do not necessarily reflect the views of the European Union, the governments, or organisations of these countries. Responsibility for the content of the publication lies exclusively with the authors and editors of the publication.




 




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