Your short film is finished, but you don’t know what to do with it next? Parents and friends have watched it — and that’s it? Maybe it’s a coursework or a graduation project collecting dust on the shelf after the defense ceremony? Meanwhile, it could be traveling to festivals in Ukraine and around the world! How to make that happen — filmmaker, producer, and festival distributor Valeriy Hrysha shares his experience.
🎤 This event will be held in Ukrainian, with no English translation provided.
SPEAKERS
Valerii Hrysha
member of the association Contemporary Ukrainian Cinema and the National Union of Cinematographers of Ukraine. He earned a Bachelor’s degree (2022) and a Master’s degree (2024) in Film and Television Directing from the Kyiv National University of Culture and Arts. His student films have participated in national and international film festivals. Since 2020, he has been involved in festival distribution of Ukrainian cinema, working with films produced by Contemporary Ukrainian Cinema as well as independent short, student, and feature-length projects across various genres. In 2021, he worked as an assistant director on the feature film La Palisiada by Filip Sotnychenko. He is a co-organizer of the Ivano-Frankivsk International Short Film Festival 4:3, where he served as program coordinator for four years since the festival’s founding in 2021.