About us
The Ukrainian Film Institute is dedicated to advancing film industry research, producing socially impactful films, championing human rights initiatives, and supporting grassroots movements
The Ukrainian Film Institute, established in 2015, is a non-profit organization dedicated to advancing film industry research, producing socially impactful films, championing human rights initiatives, and supporting grassroots movements.
Our motto: "Global cinema for the society of the future".
Our areas of interest and activity:
Analyzing and monitoring the Ukrainian film industry, implementing a system of international standard industry research
Supporting and conducting research projects in the field of cinema and audiovisual industry
Evolution of copyright and Internet piracy under the influence of the latest technologies, including artificial intelligence
The future of Ukrainian cinema and industry
Support and production of popular science films
Team
Ruslan Savchuk
The Board chairman
He has been working in the Ukrainian film industry since 2005. With a law degree in business law and more than twenty years of experience in commercial structures, he chose film production as his vocation. He has produced more than a hundred major advertising, social, music and concert films. He was an expert at the Ukrainian Cultural Foundation and House of Europe.
Denys Maslikov
Executive director
He has been in the film industry since 2010. He has worked his way up from a journalist to an editor-in-chief in the Ukrainian media. He has experience in managing NGO film organizations. He was the CEO of the Association of Producers. Now he specializes in social impact projects and research projects on the Ukrainian film industry. He is the author and leader of the Manifesto Tribunal project.
Eduard Ievtushenko
UFI Productions director
He has been working in television and film production since 1999. He has many years of experience working on numerous projects, from the emergence of an idea to its full realization. He always considers searching for new ideas, projects and discovering new names. He is the head of the Ukrainian Film Institute's film production company UFI Productions. He was an expert of the Ukrainian Film Foundation.
Projects
Check out our projects to find out how we are trying to help the film industry and Ukrainian society
Sociology of the film industry
How the film community is organized
Studying the structure of the Ukrainian community of film professionals as a social organism, the interaction of different cinematographers with each other and the authorities, identifying problems and solving them, and the adaptation of filmmakers abroad
Cognitive and semiotic analysis
What our movies are really about
A cognitive and semiotic analysis of Ukrainian films in 2011-2024 (what meanings were put into their works by film directors and screenwriters, what meanings actually appeared in the films after the analysis of researchers, what meanings were understood by the audience of these films)
Please support our activities
It is only thanks to you that we can work on the Manifesto Tribunal project to support and protect the rights and freedoms of our soldiers. Every donation you make is your contribution to achieving justice and dignity for our heroes!
Contacts
Address
47, Sadova str., Irpin, Kyiv region, Ukraine 08201
Phone