Award-winning documentary filmmaker, member of the European Film Academy, Andrii Zahdanskyi was born on March 9, 1956, in Kyiv, Ukraine. He received an MFA with distinction from Kyiv State University of Theatrical Arts. His first feature documentary, the seminal Interpretation of Dreams (1990), juxtaposed the filmmaker’s dialogue with Sigmund Freud and the history of the Soviet Union. The result was “interesting and provocative” (Vincent Canby, The New York Times) and an “astonishing marriage of Freudian thinking and history” (Boston Globe). His films have been screened and awarded at many international film festivals, including those in New York, Amsterdam, London, Krakow, San Francisco, Madrid, Istanbul, and Cairo. In 1992, Andrii and his family relocated to the United States. In 1994, he received a Rockefeller Fellowship. He taught several film courses at the New School in New York. He directed/edited/produced many feature documentaries. Andrii was awarded the Golden Dzyga for his contribution to the Ukrainian cinema (lifetime achievement award). (Dzyga is the Ukrainian for a “spinning top” and is the first part of David Kaufman's famously assumed name Dzyga Vertov).
Submit your project to the catalog
