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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
• POMEGRANATE STUDIOS INC, NYC, USA, founder, director, producer 2008-2013
• REVOLUTION MESSAGING, USA-Ukraine, director, producer 2012
• Directing and Producing TV and Online documentary films for political campaigns and candidates
• Travel with candidates to capture public events and behind-the-scenes moments
• 1 +1 TV Channel, Kyiv, Ukraine, director 2010-2011
• RELATED PARTS LLC, NYC, USA, producer 2010-2011
• EMBARQ, NYC, USA, editor 2010
DIRECTING (Features)
• LEVEL OF SECRECY 18 (4 episodes, 42 minutes each) – TV documentary.
Premiered in May 2011 on 1+1, a premier Ukrainian national TV channel. 2011
• HALYA HIGH-AND-MIGHTY - feature narrative film (project in development)
• IN THE LAND OF THE LOST CRUSADERS - feature documentary (in post-production)
SHORT FILMS (As Writer/Director/Producer/Editor)
• HELEN - narrative short 2013
• TURN OFF YOUR CELL PHONES – spec commercial 2013
• NIKO – documentary short 2007
• THE BALLOONIST - narrative short 2006
• ABSENTEE - narrative short 2004
• ASHTRAY- narrative short 2003
SCREENWRITING
• LOVE CONSTANT BEYOND DEATH (adaptation) - narrative short 2004
• RIGHT WHERE I WANT YOU - narrative feature (co-writer) 2003
• GREAT LOVERS' GRAVE GARDEN – music video 2002
• MISTER HORSE HEAD - cartoon 2002
PRODUCING
• UKRAINIAN LESSONS (Dir. Ruslan Batytskyi) – short narrative, co-producer 2012
• SALT IN THE AIR (Dir. Enrico Cullen) – feature documentary, producer 2013
• IN THE LAND OF THE LOST CRUSADERS – feature documentary, co-producer (in post-production)
• BLACK AND WHITE IN COLORS (Dir. Leonardo Corbucci) - narrative feature, associate producer (in post-production)
• THE DEBT (Dir. Levan Koguashvili) - narrative short (producer) 2005
VARIOUS (selected films)
• GREEN JACKET (Dir. Volodymyr Tyhyj) – feature narrative, actress (in post- production)
• OVERDRIVE: ISTANBUL IN NEW MILLENIUM (Dir. Aslihan Unalde) – feature
documentary (editor) 2011
• AMA AT SEA (Dir. Mahalia Cohen) - narrative short (lead actress) 2010
• LITTLE ACCIDENTS (Dir. Sara Colangelo) – narrative short (1st AD) 2010
• NIGHTLIGHT (Dir. Etienne Kallos) – narrative short (DP) 2007
• SPY GAMES II: BLACK WOLF HUNT (Dir. George Gavrilov) - feature (1st AD) 2006
• SOFA KING (Dir. Schlomo Godder) – narrative short (editor) 2006
• RAZAN (Dir. Aslihan Unaldi) - narrative short (script supervisor) 2006
ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS (Selected)
• YURI ANDRUCHOVYCH'S PROSE AS A PHENOMENON OF POSTMODERNISM
160 page manuscript thesis 2000
• YURI ANDRUCHOVYCH'S PROSE AS A PHENOMENON OF POSTMODERNISM
Kalynska, Lesya, ed., Kyiv: Naukovyj Svit 2000
• AMBIGUITY IN THE GENRE OF POSTMODERN NOVEL OF YURI ANDRUKOVYCH'S “MOSKOVIADA”
Kalynska, Lesya, Nauka I Suchasnist 3: 198-203 2000
• “POLISTYLISM OF YURI ANDRUKOVYCH'S NOVEL “PERVERSION”
Kalynska, Lesya, Nauka I Suchasnist 1, 3: 250-257 2000
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EDUCATION
New York University, Tisch School of the Arts, New York, NY 2003-2009
• MFA, Maurice Kanbar Institute of Film and Television
• Directing and Screenwriting
University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 1999-2003
• PhD candidate, Department of Slavic and Baltic Languages and Literatures
• Slavic Literatures and Languages
Drahomanov Ukrainian National Pedagogical University, Kyiv, Ukraine 2001
• PhD, Department of Slavic Studies
• Slavic Literary Studies
Drahomanov Ukrainian National Pedagogical University, Kyiv, Ukraine 1990-1994
• BA, Department of Slavic Studies: Diploma with Distinction
• Ukrainian Language and Literature
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AWARDS AND GRANTS
• Hollywood Foreign Press Association Production Award 2008
• Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Georgia Production Grant 2007
• THE BALLOONIST
Best Student Film Award – Hope and Dreams IFF, New Jersey, USA 2006
Best director nomination – Fusion Film Festival, New York, USA 2006
Official Selection – Badalona Film Festival, Barcelona, Spain 2006
• THE DEBT
Producing Award - First Run Film Festival, New York, USA 2005
Official Selection – Tribeca Film Festival, New York, USA 2006
Official Selection – Sundance Film Festival, Park City, USA 2006
Audience Award - Los Angeles Annual Showcase, Los Angeles, CA 2006
Best Student Film Award - Hampton IFF, Hampton, NY 2006
FELLOWSHIPS AND SCHOLARSHIPS
• Maurice Kanbar Institute of Film and Television Scholarship 2005 - 2006
• Maurice Kanbar Institute of Film and Television Fellowships 2003 - 2005
• Foundation for Ukrainian Studies at University of Illinois
at Chicago Fellowships 1999 – 2003
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