User:Draperfox/sandbox Nadija Parfan

Nadiya Parfan (b. April 19, 1986, Ivano-Frankivsk) is a film producer, film director, cultural critic, social activist, co-founder of the International Film and Urbanism Festival "86" in Slavutych, the online cinema Takflix and the documentary film distribution company 86PROKAT. She is a member of the Ukrainian Film Academy.

Biography
Nadiia Parfan was born on April 19, 1986 in Ivano-Frankivsk.

Education
She studied cultural studies at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy (2007 - bachelor's degree, 2009 - master's degree) and social anthropology at the Central European University.

In 2014-2015, she studied documentary filmmaking at the Andrzej Wajda School.

Career
Line producer of the documentary Marry a Foreigner by Jonathan Narducci (2014). She is a producer of the MyStreetFilmsUkraine project, the films On The East (2015, directed by Petro Armyanovsky), Acute Pain (2017, directed by Valeriy Puzik), and I Love You (2017, directed by Anna Nasadyuk).

In 2012-2013, she was a Fulbright Scholar in the United States.

She is the author of articles and scientific publications in the magazines Korydor, Spilne, Political Criticism, and Ukraine Modern.

She is a former activist of the Feminist Opposition.

In 2018, Nadiia, together with producer Ilya Gladshtein, founded the production company Phalanstery Films, which provides a full range of local production services for international documentary and television projects - development, production, and post-production.

In July 2019, the Odesa International Film Festival premiered her first feature-length documentary, Ivano-Frankivskteplocomunenergo Sings, which tells the story of the choir of employees of this institution. The world premiere of the film took place at the Visions Du Reel festival in Switzerland, which is one of the largest documentary forums in the world.

On December 31, 2019, Nadiia Parfan launched the online video-on-demand platform Takflix, where you can legally watch Ukrainian films.

In 2023, her short film I Didn't Want to Make a Movie About War was published on the New Yorker website. The same year, her first feature, This Date, a short film about the love of two Ukrainian women in Kyiv during a full-scale war, won the Berlinale award in February and was published on Takflix and the British platform Nowness in March.

Selected filmography
2014 - The Exarch

2015 - For the attention of passengers!

2015 - The Battle for October

2016 - Reve ta Stohne go to the West

2017 - Housewarming party

2019 - Ivano-Frankivsk district heating company sings

2021 - Women playing games

2022 - I didn't want to make a movie about the war

2023 - This is a date