Program of Film Industry Office of the 16th Odesa International Film Festival

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From September 26 to October 2, within the framework of the Film Industry Office section of the 16th Odesa International Film Festival, a series of professional events will be held aimed at supporting and developing Ukrainian film projects and the film industry as a whole.

The Film Industry Office events will take place at:

• The House of Architect (7 Borys Hrinchenko Street), Grand and Small Halls

• “Oscar Cinema” (Gulliver Shopping Mall, 1a Sportyvna Square), Venice Hall
   

Film Industry Office Program

*The list of topics and speakers may be updated*

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September 26, Friday

 

House of the Architect, 7 Borys Hrinchenko Street, Grand Hall

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11:00 - 11:20 – Opening of the section
Speaker: Mykola Ulyanov – Head of the Creative Europe Programme Bureau
11:20 - 13:00 – Support opportunities for the audiovisual sector from the EU Creative Europe Programme
Speaker: Mykola Ulyanov

 

13:00 - 13:30 – Break

 

13:30 - 14:30 – Support opportunities for the audiovisual sector from the Ukrainian Cultural Foundation and other national programs and initiatives (Grants and Scholarships of the President of Ukraine / Ministry of Economic Development and Trade of Ukraine)
Speakers: Dmytro Reshetchenko – Deputy Executive Director for Project Work, UCF; Svitlana Pazychenko – Chief Specialist of the Department of Personnel and Information Support, State Agency of Ukraine for Arts and Art Education

 

14:30 - 15:00 – Break

 

15:00 - 17:00 – Panel Discussion: Financing and promoting film projects for wide audiences, building partnerships. Challenges, risks, and solutions in financing, investment attraction systems, achieving commercial results.
Moderator: Olha Panteleimonova – Head and Producer of UPHub Production Company,
Speakers: Mykola Ulyanov – Head of the Creative Europe Programme Bureau; Nataliia Baidan – CEO of Planeta Kino; Polina Tolmacheva – Marketing Director, ICTV, ICTV2; Svitlana Danylchenko – Producer

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September 27, Saturday

 

House of Architect, 7 Borys Hrinchenko Street, Grand Hall

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12:00 - 13:00 – Business Cluster of the EU Creative Europe Programme
Speaker: Mykola Ulyanov – Head of the Creative Europe Programme Bureau
13:00 - 13:30 – Competition 'Innovation Laboratories'
Speaker: Oleksandr Khodakivskyi – Project Manager, EU Creative Europe Programme
13:30 - 14:00 – Break
14:00 - 15:00 – Panel Discussion: Distribution of European films and animation in Ukraine
Moderator: Mykola Ulyanov
Speakers: Illia Diadyk – Program Director, Arthouse Traffic; Yuliia Antypova – Director, Zhovten Cinema; Nataliia Baidan – CEO, Planeta Kino
15:00 - 17:30 – Challenges, solutions, and innovations in contemporary Ukrainian non-fiction:

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• 'Animation in Documentary Cinema: Integration, Challenges, and Results'

Speakers: Serhii Mohylnyi (Animation Director), Natalie ElBaba (Project Manager), Serhii Holubchuk (Animation Supervisor)

• 'Artificial Intelligence as an Effective Tool for Non-Fiction'

Speaker: Stanislav Lytvynov – Director, UCF Expert, Initiator of the #CreatingCultureTogether Movement, Director of projects for the Embassy of Ukraine in Lebanon (2017–2022)

• 'Producing Documentaries with Sensitive Content as a Tool of Cultural Diplomacy'

Speaker: Anna Sliusarenko – Producer

• Experience of Producing the Trilogy 'The Art of War'

Speakers: Yevhen Mazurenko – Director; Iryna Sakhaltuieva – Producer, K-Animation Studio

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September 28, Sunday

 

House of the Architect, 7 Borys Hrinchenko Street, Grand Hall

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12:00 - 14:00 – Reform and Modernization of the Law on State Support of Cinematography in Ukraine. Presentation
Moderator: Anna Machukh, General Director of OIFF
Speakers: Pavlo Sushko – Member of Parliament of Ukraine, Head of the Subcommittee on Cinematography and Advertising, Committee on Humanitarian and Information Policy; Oleksandr Maksymchuk – Producer, Lawyer, Consultant of the VRU Committee on Humanitarian and Information Policy; Olha Panteleimonova – Head and Producer of UPHub Production Company, Lawyer; Andrii Osipov – Head of the State Agency of Ukraine for Cinema
14:00 - 15:00 – Break
15:00 - 16:30 – Ukrainian Series in the Age of Change: Heroes, Genres, and the Search for New Sincerity (powered by Starlight Media)
Moderator: Oksana Kalytiuk – Creative Producer, Starlight Production
Speakers: Dmytro Khrypun – Showrunner, Creative Producer, ICTV; Roman Lukin – Creative Producer, TET; Viktoriia Burdukova – Producer, UPHub; Anna Yelisieieva – Producer, FILM.UA GROUP
16:30 - 17:00 – Break
17:00 - 18:30 – Producing Original Content for Platforms in Ukraine (powered by 1+1 Media)
Moderator: Maryna Kaplun – Head of Content, Kyivstar TV
Speakers: Anna Honchar – Producer 'Tykha Nava', Head of Investment and Partnership Projects, 1+1 Media; Nataliia Panchenko – Head of Acquisition and Content Development Strategy, Kyivstar TV; Valeriia Tolochyna – Marketing Director, MEGOGO; Yurii Povoroznyk – Editor-in-Chief of Content and General Producer, SWEET.TV

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September 29, Monday

 

House of the Architect, 7 Borys Hrinchenko Street, Grand Hall

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11:00 - 12:30 – Trends in Contemporary Ukrainian Documentary Cinema
Moderator: Anna Machukh, General Director of OIFF
Speakers: Olha Kashpor – Deputy News Director for New Formats, 1+1 Media; Iryna Karpova – Producer of Informational and Journalistic Programming, Channel 2+2; Anastasiia Shteingauz – Executive Director, ICTV and ICTV2; Lukian Halkin – Creative Producer, Suspilne Broadcasting; Alisa Kovalenko – Director; Volodymyr Tykhyi – Producer and Director, Babylon’13; Yuliia Bin – Multimedia Broadcasting Platform of Ukraine; Anna Kapustina – Producer, Director
12:30 - 13:00 – Break
13:00 - 14:30 – Facts in the Post-Truth Era
Moderator: Olena Froliak – Anchor and Head of 'Fakty', ICTV
Speakers: Journalists (newsrooms, reporters, correspondents), documentarians, filmmakers of war features, government representatives
14:30 - 15:30 – Nordic Roadmap: Getting Ukrainian Docs on Europe’s Public Broadcasters (ENGLISH LANGUAGE ONLY)
Moderator: Alex Shiriaieff – Chief Executive Producer, EuroArctic Media Group (Sweden)
Speakers: Lukian Halkin – Producer for Outsource Commissioning and Co-production, Suspilne (Ukraine); Malcolm Dixelius – Producer, Dixit International (Sweden); Olha Bregman – Producer, 2Brave Productions (Ukraine)
15:30 - 16:00 – Break
16:00 - 17:00 – Prospects of Festival Feature Films in Ukraine
Moderator: Oksana Hutsait – Anchor, 'Fakty' Program, ICTV
Speakers: Anna Machukh – General Director of OIFF; Yehor Olesov – Producer, Director; Anna Yatsenko – Producer; Nataliia Libet – Producer; Kristina Tynkevych – Director, Screenwriter; Andrii Osipov – Head of the State Agency of Ukraine for Cinema; Dmytro Sukhanov – Producer
17:00 - 18:00 – Distribution and Marketing Begins with the Script
Moderator: Olha Panteleimonova – Head and Producer of UPHub Production Company
Speakers: Veronika Yasinska – Green Light Films; Oleksii Terentiev – Producer, UPHub; Olena Martynova – Marketing Director, Starlight Media, Head of Starlight Creative Agency

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House of the Architect, 7 Borys Hrinchenko Street, Small Hall

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13:00 - 14:30 – Artificial Intelligence – Threat or Solution for TV Series Production
Moderator: Oksana Hutsait – Anchor, 'Fakty' Program, ICTV
Speakers: Nataliia Vovk – Marketing Director, 1+1 Ukraine; Valeriia Tolochyna – Marketing Director, MEGOGO; Oleksii Komarovskyi – Producer, Director, Screenwriter; Olena Martynova – Marketing Director, Starlight Media, Head of Starlight Creative Agency; Oleh Malamuzh – Director; Oleksii Terentiev – Producer, UPHub
14:30 - 15:00 – Break
15:00 - 16:00 – The State and Prospects of Animation Development in Ukraine
Moderator: Oleh Malamuzh – Producer, Avtoritet Studio, Director of 'Mavka. The Forest Song'
Speakers: Anastasiia Verlinskа – Program Director, Linoleum Animation Festival; Serhii Yehorov – Project Lead, Heroic Postproduction Company; Olena Holubieva – Executive Director, UAnimA, Director of Red Dog Studio; Ivanna Naida – General Producer, PLUSPLUS Channel

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September 30, Tuesday

 

House of the Architect, 7 Borys Hrinchenko Street, Grand Hall

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11:00 - 12:30 – What Stories Does the Audience Need Today? (powered by Starlight Media). Special discussion of the film podcast 'When Will It Be Like in Hollywood?' by 'Your Cinema' Channels.
Hosts: Showrunner, Screenwriter Tala Prystaietska and Director, Showrunner Yevhen Tunik
12:30 - 13:30 – Break
13:30 - 15:00 – Ethics and Responsibility in the Film Industry
Moderator: Lena Chichenina – Journalist
Speakers: Oryna Petrova – Casting Director; Anastasiia Pustovit – Actress; Artur Lohai – Actor; Artem Krykun-Trush – Lawyer, Partner at Miller Law Firm; Volodymyr Yatsenko – Producer; Yana Honcharenko – Director of Communications and Sustainable Development, Starlight Media; Olha Panteleimonova – Head and Producer, UPHub Production Company
15:00 - 16:10 – Break
16:10 - 17:30 – Open Dialogue: 'Creating the Public Image of an Actor and the Path from Episodes to Leading Roles'
Moderator: Oryna Petrova – Casting Director
Speakers: Anna Davydenko – Celebrity Marketing Manager, PR Agent; Oleksandr Rudynskyi – Actor

17:30 - 19:00 – The Institute of Ukrainian Film Stars (powered by UPHub)*
Moderator: Oksana Hutsait – Anchor, 'Fakty' Program, ICTV
Speakers: Olha Panteleimonova – Head and Producer, UPHub Production Company; Oleksii Komarovskyi – Producer, Director, Screenwriter; Tetiana Shulika – Head of Production of Feature Projects, 1+1 Production, Producer and Author of 'Christmas Guards'; Iryna Khranovska – Chief Producer of TV Series Production, ICTV2; Tina Zavadska – Name PR (Trincher, Kola, Dantes)

*access with accreditation or ticket

 

 

House of the Architect, 7 Borys Hrinchenko Street, Small Hall

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11:00 - 11:40 – Normal or Weird in the Acting Profession. What Actors Are Afraid to Ask Directly
Speaker: Oryna Petrova – Casting Director
11:40 - 12:20 – The Actor Through the Eyes of a Director
Open Dialogue: Oryna Petrova – Casting Director; Serhii Kulybyshev – Director, Showrunner
12:30 - 13:10 – New Faces. How Producers Approve Actors, Why Some Get Lucky and Others Stay in the Shadows
Open Dialogue: Oryna Petrova – Casting Director; Anna Yelisieieva – Producer, FILM.UA
13:10 - 15:30 – Break

15:30 - 16:10 – Actor + Agent = Success? Truth or Myth that an Actor with an Agent Will Always Have Projects
Open Dialogue: Oryna Petrova – Casting Director; Valeriia Ruban – Talent Agent, R Talent Agency

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October 1, Wednesday – Ukrainian Cinema Day supported by Derzhkino

Oscar Cinema (Gulliver Shopping Mall, 1a Sportyvna Square), Venice Hall

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11:00 - 15:00 – Cinema Unites. Presentation of Projects Supported by the State Film Agency of Ukraine

15:00 - 15:30 – Break

15:30 - 16:30 – Development of Cinema Networks with State Participation and International Support
Speakers: Olha Panteleimonova – Head and Producer, UPHub Production Company; Nataliia Baidan – CEO, Planeta Kino; Veronika Yasinska – Green Light Films

16:30 - 17:30 – Presentation: Changes in the Work of Derzhkino
Speaker: Andrii Osipov – Head of the State Agency of Ukraine for Cinema

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October 2, Thursday

Oscar Cinema (Gulliver Shopping Mall, 1a Sportyvna Square), Venice Hall

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10:00 - 19:00 – Presentation of Feature, Documentary, and Animated Film Projects in Development and Work-in-Progress Stages

Pitching Participants – Development:
• 'Vincenz' (Ukraine, Poland), Dir. Myron Latyk, Prod. Oksana Ivaniuk
• 'All F*cked Up' (Ukraine), Dir. Hanna Yaroshevych, Prod. Oleksandra Bratyshchenko
• 'HardSub' (Ukraine, Germany, Poland), Dir. Novruz Khikmet, Prod. Valeriia Sochyvets
• 'Johnny. Allah Akbar, Glory to Ukraine!' (Ukraine), Dir. Yaroslav Pidgora, Prod. Yuliia Cherniavska
• 'DNA of the Nation' (Ukraine, Lithuania), Dir. Ivan Sautkin, Prod. Ivanna Khitsinska, Ringaile Lescinskiene
• 'Chasing Two Hares 1939' (Ukraine), Dir. Arkadii Nepytaliuk, Prod. Serhii Lavreniuk
• 'Scent of the Enemy' (Ukraine), Dir. Mykhailo Illienko, Prod. Myroslav Hai
• 'Entangled' (Ukraine, Germany, Poland), Dir. Ivan Orlenko, Prod. Charlotte Krüger
• 'Golden Leggings' (Ukraine, Germany, Poland), Dir. Arkadii Nepytaliuk, Prod. Regina Maryanovska-Davidzon
• 'My Cross' (Ukraine), Dir. Zhora Papoyan, Prod. Leon Konstantinov
• 'Invisible Front: Kherson' (Ukraine, Estonia, UK), Dir. Olha Hibelynda, Prod. Vitalii Sheremetiev
• 'Unholy Power' (Ukraine, Germany, France), Dir. Roman Liubyi, Prod. Andrii Kotliar, Felix Herrmann, Pauline Tran Van Lieu
• 'Slavik's Journey to Forever' (Ukraine), Dir. Vladyslav Vasylchenko, Prod. Lukian Halkin
• 'The Romance Apocalypse, or The Long-Distance Train' (Ukraine, Lithuania), Dir. Denys Kolesnikov, Prod. Andrii Korniienko
• 'Times New Roman' (Ukraine, Lithuania, Germany, Latvia), Dir. Filip Sotnychenko, Prod. Sashko Chubko

Pitching Participants – Work in Progress:
• 'The Bear' (Ukraine), Dir. Yevhen Tunik, Prod. Oleksii Hladushevskyi
• 'Dovzhenko' (Ukraine, Romania, Slovakia), Dir. Kostiantyn Konovalov, Prod. Hanna Docheva
• 'Livin’' (Ukraine), Dir. Yevhen Matviienko, Pylyp Illienko, Oleksandr Timenko, Prod. Pylyp Illienko
• 'Every Death Diminishes Me' (Ukraine, Netherlands), Dir. Serhii Bazhenov, Prod. Inna Lastochkina
• 'TIME MACHINE MAIDAN' (Ukraine, Germany), Dir. Volodymyr Tykhyi, Roman Liubyi, Prod. Andrii Kotliar, David Armati Lechner
• 'Kira’s Dream' (Ukraine), Dir. Denys Kolesnikov, Prod. Andrii Korniienko
• 'There's No Place' (Ukraine, USA), Dir. Bohdana Smyrnova, Prod. Bohdana Smyrnova, Olga Wagner, Harry Mavromichalis
• 'Sequela' (Ukraine), Dir. Alla Mitiukova, Prod. Oleksii Yeroshenko
• 'Silence of the Estuaries' (Ukraine), Dir. Volodymyr Bakum, Prod. Volodymyr Ladyzhets