Mariia Ponomarova

director, producer
Education
Kyiv National I. K. Karpenko-Kary Theatre, Cinema and Television University, Netherlands Film Academy
Biography

Mariia Ponomarova is a Ukrainian film director, screenwriter and creative producer based in The Netherlands. Mariia studied directing at Karpenko-Karyi Kyiv National University of Theatre, Cinema & Television in Ukraine graduating cum laude in 2013. In 2016 Mariia completed the Master of Film artistic research programme at the Netherlands Film Academy. The fiction and documentary films Mariia worked on were screened at such international festivals as HotDocs, IDFA, DokLeipzig, Sarajevo FF, Sheffield DocFest, Chicago IFF, Krakow FF, Clermont-Ferrand ISFF, Go Short ISFF, Palm Springs SFF and more. She is a member of the Ukrainian Film Academy and a Senior Consultant at the Documentary Association of Europe.

SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY:
Nice Ladies (2024, director), Three Windows On South West (2023, director, producer), Fragile Memory (2022, creative producer), Family Hour (2018, director), May 9th (2016, director)

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