Oles Sanin
Oles Sanin | |
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 Sanin atOdesa International Film Festivalin 2010 | |
| Born | July 30, 1972 Kamin-Kashyrskyi,Ukraine |
| Occupation(s) | Film director, producer, screenwriter |
| Years active | 1994–present |
Oles Hennadiyovych Sanin(Ukrainian:Олесь Геннадійович Санін;born July 30, 1972, inKamin-Kashyrskyi) is a Ukrainian film director, actor,cinematographer,producer, musician and sculptor. AnHonored Artist of Ukraine(2014);[1]he was also awarded theAlexander DovzhenkoUkrainian State Award.
Biography
[edit]Born inKamin-Kashyrskyiin theVolyn Oblast.He graduated of theIvan Karpenko-KaryNational University of Theatre, Film and TV in Kyivin 1993 in the actor's class (tutor: Valentyna Zymniya) and finished the film directing course for feature films (tutor: Leonid Osyka) in 1998. He made his internships in theNetherlandsand the United States. In the years 1994–2000 he worked as a film director, director of photography, director of the production in the feature and documentary films' section of the Ukrainian branch of the international organisationInternews Network(presentlyInternews). He produced several dozen documentaries (e.g. for such stations as Internews Network,Canal+,the Ukrainian TV channel1+1,NTV,TNT,Polsat,DALAS studio,IKON,PRO Helvecia). He was the director of photography of several documentary films and directed a few documentary and featureshort films.
Sanin presides over the Ukrainian Association of Young Cinematographers.
He plays thebandura,torban,hurdy-gurdyand follows theVolhyniatradition of hurdy-gurdy players.
He used to make musical instruments himself, mastering the craft of his grandfather. Using the pseudonym Oleś Smyk (Ukrainian:Олесь Смик), he is a member of theKyiv Kobzar Gild.
Two of his feature films, the debutMamay(2003) and The Guide(2014), were official Ukrainian entries for theAcademy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.[2][3]
The Guideabout the fate of Ukrainiankobzarswas premiered on October 10, 2014[4]at the 30thWarsaw Film Festival.[5]
Awards and honors
[edit]- Alexander DovzhenkoUkrainian State Award for the filmMamay(Ukrainian:Мамай,2003),
- Silver Medal of theUkrainian Academy of Arts
- TheLumière Brothers' Silver Medal.
Filmography
[edit]Feature films
[edit]- 1995 –Atentat – osinnie vbivstwo u Miunkheni(The Assassination – the Autumn Assassination in Munich) (actor)
- 2003 –Mamay(Ukrainian:Мамай) (film director, screenwriter, actor)
- 2012 –Match(The Match) (assistant director)
- 2013 –The Guide(Ukrainian:Поводир, або квіти мають очі,romanized:Powodyr, abo kwity majut' oczi,meaningThe Guide or flowers have eyes) (film director, screenwriter)
Documentary films
[edit]- 1994 –Matinka Nadiya(Mother Nadia)
- 1994 –Buria(The Storm)
- 1995 –Zymno(Winter)
- 1996 –Pustyn'(Deserts)
- 1998 –Tanok morzha(The Danse of the Walrus) (co-authored)
- 1999 –Natsiya. Lemky(A Nation –Lemkos)
- 1999 –Natsiya. Yevreyi(A Nation – Jews)
- 1999 –Hrikh(Sin)
- 2000 –Rizdvo, abo iak Hutsuly kintsia svitu chekaly(Christmas or how theHutsulswere awaiting the Doomsday)
- 2001 –Аkvarel'(The Watercolour)
- 2005 –Den' siomyi(The Seventh Day) (film director)
- 2008 –Perebyzhchyk(The Defector) (co-authored withMark Jonathan Harris)
- 2017 –Perelomnyi moment: vijna za demokratiyu v Ukrayini(Breaking Point: The War for Democracy in Ukraine) (co-authored withMark Jonathan Harris)
Notes
[edit]- ^"УКАЗ ПРЕЗИДЕНТА УКРАЇНИ № 676/2014 - Офiцiйне представництво Президента України".August 25, 2014. Archived fromthe originalon August 25, 2014.RetrievedJanuary 21,2024.
- ^"Warszawski Festiwal Filmowy".
- ^List of submissions to the 87th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film
- ^"Warszawski Festiwal Filmowy".
- ^"Warszawski Festiwal Filmowy".
External links
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- Oles SaninatIMDb
- Official page ofThe Guide(eng.andukr.)
- Sanin about his filmThe Guideat the 30thWarsaw Film Festival,10.2014 (ukr.)
- http:// wff.pl/en/filmy/the-guide01/
- http://povodyr /en/authors.html
- Note on the Ukrainian Film Club of Columbia University (2014.10.26)
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