fiction series
With each year, urbanization and industrialization processes are making the environment in Ukraine less and less livable. It's time to become aware of our ecological conditions in order to preserve our nature and ensure a better quality of life for the future generations of Ukrainians. This project is aimed at showing the burning ecological problems, the consequences of the Russian-Ukrainian war and ways to handle them.
The film will have to conceptual antagonists: the Ukrainian nature (in general; specifically, natural reserves that aren't subject to a lot of anthropogenic influence) and cities along with industrial objects, as well as the territories of intense combat operations that inevitably influence the ecological conditions in Ukraine. The film is centered around the conflict between the intact nature and forces of urbanization/industrialization, as well as the consequences of the war.
Locations: Ukraine, within a year. Biosphere reserves: Danube, Carpathian, Chornobyl, Black Sea, and Askania-Nova Biosphere Reserves. Big urbanized and industrial cities and suburbs: Kyiv, Dnipro, Odesa, Kryvyi Rih, etc. Cities and towns destroyed by war: Bucha, Irpin, Mariupol, Kherson, Bila Tserkva, Borodianka, etc.
By visual and storytelling means, the film will present the consequences of urbanization and the Russian-Ukrainian war to international audiences.
PROJECT TEAM
DMYTRO HRESHKO, scriptwriter
In 2018, makes his first documentary, 66 Scenes of Uzhhorod. In 2019, creates a documentary about mountain rescue teams and rescued tourists, Snow Leopards of the Carpathians. In 2020, graduates from the Indie Lab Documentary Film School, Kyiv. As a course project, makes a short documentary about ambulance workers, Save me, Doctor!, which was named the Best Ukrainian Film at the Wiz Art Film Festival and received a special jury prize at Molodist IFF. In 2021, with the support of the Ukrainian State Film Agency, makes a documentary about an ambulance team in a mountain village during the COVID pandemic, Mountains and heaven in between. In 2022, it premiered nationally at the Docudays UA, Ukraine, and internationally at Sheffield DocFest, UK.
Filmography:
2021, Mountains and heaven in between («Між небом та горами»), documentary;
2020, Save me, Doctor! («Врятуйте мене, лікарю!»), short documentary;
2019, Snow Leopards of the Carpathians («Сніжні Барси Карпат»), TV documentary, UA:Suspilne;
2018, 66 Scenes of Uzhhorod («66 сцен Ужгорода»), medium-length documentary
POLINA GERMAN, producer
In 2013, got her second degree from the Kyiv National I. K. Karpenko-Karyi Theatre, Cinema and Television University (workshop of A. I. Viniarskyi) in Film and Television Production Management. In 2011, graduated from Kyiv National University of Culture and Arts in Marketing and PR. In 2011, studied marketing in the PR and Advertising School at Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University. In 2021, producer of the Carpathian Mountan International Film Festival (Uzhhorod, Ukraine). 2021 – participant of Digital Labs: Film Producers from House of Europe; Open-Air Film Festival 2021; The Price of the Conflict («Ціна конфлікту»), 4-episode documentary; Mountains and heaven in between («Між небом та горами»), documentary; Broken («Поламані»), short film; Homo Deus («Homo deus. Людина Божествена»), short film; Between Us («Між нами»), feature film. 2020 – Salt of the Sea (“Сіль для Моря”), short film; Open-Air Film Festival 2020. 2019 – The Last Day of War («Останній день війни»), 4-episode documentary for TRC Ukraine. 2019 – Police Women, pilot, UCF.