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Indie Lab by Ukrainian Artists

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Indie Lab by Ukrainian Artists

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Indie Lab is the filmmaking laboratory for young Ukrainian artists who work on their first or second documentary project. The laboratory was founded in 2013 with the support from the United States Embassy in Ukraine. During two week-long sessions participants from different regions of Ukraine work on editing their short documentary films. Despite this being the first experience in directing and editing for some participants, their work at the laboratory results in creation of 10 short documentaries each year. To bring their ideas to a completed documentary, the creators of the films are helped by tutor filmmakers from Ukraine and the United States.

FOMO 

Duration: 08min52sec

Director: VLAD KRASINSKYI

INDIE LAB 2019

Young Ukrainian journalist films "stories" in Instagram from the center of events. In the daytime - on political actions, at night - at the bars and at evening parties. He has to decide where his own place is.

Vlad Krasinskyi was born and lives in Kyiv. He is a political reporter. Vlad studied at the Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University. He started working as a journalist during the Euromaidan and made his first documentary "FOMO" based on the Euromaidan conflict.

BIRTHMARK

Duration:  20min

Director: MARIA SHEVCHENKO

INDIE LAB 2020

The film tells a story of the director's journey, both physical and metaphysical. Maria's mother was diagnosed with schizophrenia, when the girl was two years old. Now Maria documents her journey to occupied Crimea in search of crucial answers: why the illness becomes a stigma and what are the ways to being together. Maria is in search of Mother, under the sign of birthmark.

Maria Shevchenko is a journalist and a documentary director. In 2016 she graduated from the National University "Kyiv-Mohyla Academy with a degree in Journalism. "Birthmark" is Maria's debut film where she documents her journey to occupied Crimea in search of crucial answers.

IN THE FIELDS

Duration:  11min

Director: ANDRII LYTVYNENKO

INDIE LAB 2013

The film is about the Askania Nova natural reserve and about people who love the place and give their lives trying to care for wild nature. Counterintuitively enough, these people, united by a common idea of securing the well-being of Askania Nova, find it impossible to agree among themselves. Our hero, Nikolai Khlebniuk, was fired from his job at the reserve 20 years ago and now lives in a dilapidated hut in Askania; in spite of that, he has no plans to move elsewhere anytime soon. Our film is about the secret that keeps Nikolai in this place for decades.

Andrii Lytvynenko graduated from the National Karpenko-Karyi University of Theater, Film and Television in Kyiv in 2012, majoring in film directing. In 2013, he studied at Warsaw's Wajda School.

Andrii has made several short films and was the author of the idea of the anthology ​Beyond Euro (2013, Docudays UA). He also made the documentary Askania Reserve (2019), that received Special Pelicam Film Jury Prize in Romania.

DIARY 1937 

Duration: 14min43sec

Director: PAVLO DOROHOI

INDIE LAB 2020

The film consists of diaries and photos from the year 1937, which were bought at a flea market in Kharkiv. Why do people deny their own memory of Soviet experience? Is it possible to recreate historical age through personal stories and what is more important – collective or personal memory? Where lies the intersection point between personal and collective experience? The answers to be explored within the future documentary research.

Pavlo Dorohoi is a documentary photographer, documentary filmmaker, and researcher of Soviet photography of the second half of the 20th century. He was born in 1985 in Kharkiv. He studied at the school of modern photography "DOKDOKDOK", works with archival and vernacular photography. Ongoing projects concern the relationship between personal and collective memory. He is interested in the Soviet architectural heritage and its future during decommunization.

THE WONDERFUL YEARS

Duration: 08min30sec

Directors: SVITLANA SHYMKO, GALINA YARMANOVA

INDIE LAB 2018

The film explores lives of queer women in Ukraine in the late Soviet Union. It is based on the archive video materials and interviews excerpts from the research projects on LGBT history.  

Independent Ukrainian filmmaker Svitlana Shymko (1986) focuses on social and political issues. After studying documentary film through the DOC NOMADS program, she gained attention thanks to her debut The Doctor Leaves Last (2014). Her documentary film The Wonderful Years has been a collaboration with Galina Yarmanova, a gender theoretician.

SAVE ME DOCTOR 

Duration: 19min

Director: DMYTRO HRESHKO

INDIE LAB 2020

The film tells a story about the work of the ambulance crew during the New Year holidays in Kyiv. The main characters are three members of an ambulance crew: a doctor, a paramedic and a driver. The film depicts the challenges and the patients they face during their holiday shift.

Inspired by documentaries that helped to change the world for the better, Dmytro Hreshko realized that he wanted to be part of the movie-making process too. Since 2019, he has been studying and shooting documentaries. His main occupation is video game development and an active part in the organization of the Transcarpathian Film Commission events for the development of cinema in Zakarpattia, namely CMIFF movie festival.

At this moment, we do not have any future performances scheduled.

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