A director, a cameraman, a screenwriter, a photographer, a continuity person, and a sound director. The winner of the Golden Palm Branch of the short film competition of the Cannes Festival and many other international film awards. He was awarded the Gold Medal of the Academy of Arts of Ukraine, the diploma “Ambassador of Ukrainian Culture” of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, and other domestic awards. He is a participant of the Berlinale Talent Campus 2005.
He was born in 1973 in the village of Paryshe of Nadvirnyansky district in Ivano-Frankivsk region.
In 2003 he graduated Kyiv I. Karpenko-Kary National University of Theater, Film, and Television, a course in documentary film directorship (a studio of Sergiy Bukovsky and Volodymyr Kukorenchuk).
From 2002 to 2003 he worked as an assistant director on the 9-episode TV film “War. Ukrainian account” (2003, Ukraine, directed by Sergiy Bukovsky).
In 2005 he made a short documentary “Wayfarers”, which became the first Ukrainian film to enter the competition program of the Cannes Festival and received the Golden Palm Branch in the short film competition. “Wayfarers” also won the Prize for Best Documentary by the Tirana International Film Festival (Albania), the Cecili Prize for best documentary and diplomas for “Best Sound” and “Best Direction” of the International Festival of Youth Short Films “Cecili” (Georgia), Larisa Rodnyanska Grand Prix for the best film of the national competition program of the Ukrainian International Documentary Film Festival “Contact”.
In total, “Wayfarers” took part in more than 40 international film festivals, in particular, Karlovy Vary (Czech Republic), Melbourne (Australia), Warsaw (Poland), Trieste (Italy), Stockholm (Sweden), Pusan (South Korea), Gijón (Spain), Damascus (Syria), Athens (Greece), Copenhagen (Denmark), in short film festivals in Sao Paulo (Brazil), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) and others.
In 2005 he was awarded the Diploma “Ambassador of Ukrainian Culture” of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine “For unique creative achievement and contribution to the promotion of Ukrainian culture abroad”; the Diploma of the National Union of Theatrical Figures of Ukraine “For Artistic Achievements”, the award “Star moment” of the second degree of the Jewelry House “Lobortas” for outstanding artistic achievements.
In 2006 he was awarded the Gold Medal of the Academy of Arts of Ukraine for significant creative achievements.
In 2005 he made a short documentary “The German Lesson” within the framework of the International Competition of Documentaries “Reconciliation Gestures”, held by the Goethe Institute and the German Foundation “Memory and the Future”. The film received the second prize in the Ukrainian block of the competition.
From 2004 to 2006 he has been the director of the promotion department of “Tonis” TV channel.
In 2006 he was an assistant director of the two-series feature film “Everyone Must Die” (directed by Sergiy Bukovsky); a cameraman of the documentary film “The Central Russian Upland ” (directed by Ilya Khrzhanovsky).
In 2008 he got a scholarship Gaude Polonia of the Minister of Culture of the Republic of Poland, within which he made a photo project “Two colors”.
In 2011 he was a director of the epilogue of the film “Ukraine. The starting point” (directed by Sergiy Bukovsky).
Since 2012 he has been a photographer, a continuity person in various projects.
In 2017 he made four short documentaries in the format of Virtual Reality – “Shepherds. Ivan”, “Shepherds. Mykola”, “Shepherds. Volodymyr”, “Shepherds. Petro and Ivan”. The film “Shepherds. Ivan” participated in several dozen international film festivals, including Rendezvous Film Festival (USA), 360 Film Festival (France), Short Movie Club Film Festival (Belarus), and received the award as the best film in the nomination “Virtual Reality / 360 VR” at Barcelona Planet Film Festival (Spain) and a bronze prize in the nomination “Virtual Reality” at the International Film Festival Virgin Spring Cinefest (India).