Post-Production Grant Program: List of Grant Recipients Announced

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The list of recipients for the Post-Production Grant Program by the Ukrainian Film Academy, in partnership with Netflix, has been announced. The primary goal of the Grant Program is to support Ukrainian creators both in Ukraine and worldwide who have been affected or displaced by the war, enabling them to continue and develop their work.

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Eligible for submission were Ukrainian feature-length fiction and documentary films that were in production or post-production. As a result, 10 projects were selected to receive a post-production grant of $10,000 each:

• Demons, dir. Natalia Vorozhbyt, prod. Dmytro Minzyanov, Dariusz Jablonski

• Divya, dir. Dmytro Greshko, prod. Polina Herman, Hlib Lukianets

• The Glass House, dir. Taras Dron, prod. Ihor Savichenko, Valeria Sochivets, Rodrigo Ruiz Tarazona

• The Daughter, dir. Yehor Olesov, prod. Olga Maksiuk

• Cuba and Alaska, dir. Yehor Troyanovskyi, prod. Olga Beshkmelnytsina, Christian Popp

• Malevich, dir. Darya Onyshchenko, prod. Anna Palenchuk, Maria Kael, Paolo Maria Spina

• Militanthropos, dir. Alina Gorlova, Yelizaveta Smit, prod. Yevheniy Rachkovskiy, Ralph Wieser

• Songs of Slow Burning Earth, dir. Olga Zhurba, prod. Darya Bassel, Anna Känke

• Chrysanthemum Day, dir. Semen Mozhovyi, prod. Oleksandr Chepiga, Daryna Zakharova, Artem Koliubaiev, Taras Bosak, Annemiek van der Hell

• You Are the Universe, dir. Pavlo Ostrikov, prod. Volodymyr Yatsenko, Anna Yatsenko, Anton Iffland Stettner

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Projects were assessed by one Ukrainian and four international industry experts, who were not connected to any of the projects. The experts list included:

• Alik Shpilyuk, film critic and scholar

• Bernd Fischer, cinematographer, director

• Emilie Georges, producer

• Ewa Puszczyńska, producer

• Niels Beekamp, director, showrunner, and executive producer of documentary films and series

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The complete rules and regulations can be found via the link.

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These initiatives for the Ukrainian film and TV industry continue to be supported by Netflix through the Netflix Fund for Creative Equity. Over the last two years 200 industry professionals have received stipends for creative purposes, and education and mentoring have been offered to over 650 Ukrainian filmmakers, scriptwriters, producers and others in the creative community. With the support of Netflix, the Ukrainian Film Academy has now aided a total of 73 film projects with script development grants and a further 10 advanced film projects offering financial assistance to help with post-production.