
Svitlana Zinovyeva
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Biography
Svitlana Zinovyeva is a Ukrainian cinematographer and producer. Born in Chelyabinsk, Russia, she graduated from Karpenko-Karyi Institute of Theater in Kyiv (specialization cinematographer, Suren Shabkazyan’s workshop). She worked at Odesa Fiction Films Studio and Kyivnaukfilm studio. She has made 7 fiction films and about 30 documentaries as a director of photography. She is a member of the National Cinematographers’ Union of Ukraine. Since 1993, she has been an independent film producer, head, and founder of Inspiration Films Company. Svitlana initiated and led with partners during 8 years the Ukrainian Co-production Workshops for Documentaries. As a producer, she has produced about 50 documentaries, which were widely presented at prestigious film festivals; some of the films have been awarded at FID Marseille, Krakow IFF, Molodist IFF, and others.
Known For

The plot is based on a comic situation between a husband and wife (both dreaming of a new family), which finds its happy resolution on New Year's Eve.
Next of Kin

Prominent Ukrainian/Italian documentary film director Oleksandr Balahura (most known for link) visits Roma neighborhoods and social events in Zakarpattia (Western Ukraine) and re-visits his earlier work, "Widow-Street", shot on same locations in 1991. He also screens "Widow-Street" to its characters, whom he meets again in 2013.
Loli Kali Shuba

A film observing the mode of life and everyday existence of the Polissia countrymen, whose survival depends on the cranberry crop in the marsh. Cranberries here are considered on a par with bread.
On the Swamps

An essayistic architecture documentary dwelling on modern-day Ukraine, Constructivism, and the Soviet Revolution.
The Building

Armed with his brushes, the mural painter Gamlet Zinkivsky roams the streets of the Ukrainian city of Mariupol, 20 km from the front line. The artist's initiative does not go unnoticed.
Rain Project

Sparked by the aftermath of the 2004 Ukrainian presidential election, Ukrainians began a series of protests against fraud and towards genuine democracy. History remembers it as the Orange Revolution, and here Sergii Masloboishchykov interrogates its foundation and motivations. By filming miners, villagers and students across Ukraine, the film maps a geography of the vast country that bridges the gap between East and West. Together they create a political argument for Ukrainian society, which, as the film states clearly, is a source of power.
Nevseremos! People of Maidan

The film is about street art in the Crimea and about artists who choose radically different paths.
Enjoy

Where geography and common sense doesn't work, there is a place for him. This is a story about a person who has everything. It is not quite the same we used to imagine as the products of contemporary system of values. Living on the edge between alcoholic dreams and awakenings Fenik has found his niche. The only reason to worry about is that scrap metal will be gone soon.
Junk

Portrait of the brilliant Ukrainian artist against the backdrop of the 20th century.
Kateryna Bilokur. Message

Zo is a former soccer player. After leaving sports, she has to fight for survival and to define her new self.
Sister Zo

For over a century ‘Carol of the Bells’ has been heard across the globe, but few know this song as ‘Shchedryk’, nor its Ukrainian origins. Own Voice delves into this history, and in so doing provokes a discussion about heritage and a changing world.
Own Voice

The collective portrait of the rank-and-file creators of the Ukrainian Revolution of Dignity of 2013-2014 and their individual opponents consists of many interviews with supporters and opponents of the Maidan, with the help of which modern history is impartially recorded. Sincere stories of completely different people on both sides of the barricades, different opinions, goals and hopes.
The Ukrainian Argument

A story about a unique Ukrainian settlement that has existed in Brazil for over a hundred years. Surrounded by a foreign culture and religion, Ukrainians preserve the traditions and language of their people.
Red Land

Film about the unfinished film. "Three butterflies... Suddenly - two butterflies... And nobody has realized how the souls disappear..." Twenty-five years ago, in kyiv, his mother gave to the author a camcorder 16 mm. His friends and he, interested in cinema, started to make everyone own movie. Today, the camcorder has disappeared, as a part of the friends and the country where this happened. But the spools of the films shooted at that time stay. This new film tries to understand then the meaning of the initiated film, and perhaps, in a certain sense, to finish it...
Wings Of Butterfly
Film-box, film-excavation, film-hiding place. A brief excursion into contemporary archaeology.
Expedition

The time of exposure is the life span of an object in frame. In this regard, no photo is just a two-dimensional graphic composition - it always has the third, temporal dimension. A photo is a time carrier, the vessel of memory... But whose memory? Of the Face or the Thing or the Landscape which are still on the photo? Of the photographer?
Life Span of the Object in Frame (a Film about the Film not yet shot)

A documentary from the film collection about the national liberation struggle in Volhynia in the 20th century.
Luchesk is Large on the Styr River

"Beyond Euro" is the result of collective work of the youth creative laboratory. His idea can probably be defined as an attempt to impersonate the crowd. The ability to see, to distinguish a human face from a crowd that seems faceless, cohesive on a sporting, political, or any other basis. And tell me about it. That's probably the point. Both the Almanac and the laboratory. How successful this experiment is will be judged by the audience. In any case, it took place. And here is a series of attentive, thoughtful, concerned or ironic, but always caring and independent views of young authors on the reality that surrounds them. To see a separate human face in a crowd also means to keep your own. In any crowd... which is thus personified and gets a chance to turn into a society. The thought is not new, but it needs to be reminded.
Beyond Euro

Post-revolutionary Ukraine through a community of people who ‘try to build a new society’ in the cracks and pores of a collapsing social system. The film unfolds in central Kyiv, in a space that has been reclaimed from the city by forces of nature. As a result of a series of landslides, the area of Petrivska street has become untenable and was subsequently occupied by the outcasts and outsiders of all kinds. A secretive graffiti team, a group of tech geeks and an avant-garde gay theatre that fled the war in Luhansk all struggle to create a place where they could coexist outside the pressure of dysfunctional social structures.
Landslide

A film about the outstanding Ukrainian composer Igor Shamo (1825-1982). Choirs rehearse a fragment of the folk opera "Yatran Games," which was never staged during the composer's lifetime. The authors of the film offer their audiovisual interpretation of fragments of the opera.