Iryna Hordiichuk

Producer Yurii Minzianov is well-known in professional circles. His filmography includes over 60 TV series and movies. In 2009, he was even nominated for the Outstanding International Producer award at the Monte-Carlo Television Festival (Monaco) for the series The Squad.However, if someone...

Let me dare challenge a classic. All unhappy families are alike, and each happy family is happy in its own way.The characters of today’s story are: the husband – film actor and director Anatolii Mateshko who is handsome, talented, workaholic; the wife – actress,...

Four years ago, Seitablaiev shot his debut full-length feature film with the mysterious title Haytarma, and people started talking about him. At first it was because the film turned out to be a success, then – after the annexation of Crimea – the discussion moved to the...

I must admit that it was not my idea to interview Ekaterina Barabash. It was an assignment given to me by Den/The Day’s Editor-in-Chief Larysa Ivshyna, who long time ago has paid attention to Ekaterina’s straightforward, sometimes desperate anti-Putin posts on social media and deeply...

The People’s Republic of China was among the first nations to recognize the independence of Ukraine 25 years ago. In January 1992, the two nations’ ambassadors exchanged credentials, thus officially establishing diplomatic relations between China and Ukraine.To commemorate this...

I must say at once that the title of the book The Third Eye is eye to eye with its content (sorry for the unintentional pun). Firstly, Olha Petrova is a graphic artist and painter whose work is known, appreciated, and collected both in Ukraine and abroad. And not only in Europe, but also in faraway...

Some 25 years ago a well-known documentary filmmaker Andrii Zahdansky (best known for Interpretation of Dreams, Orange Winter, My Father Yevhen, Vagrich and the Black Square) made a film Two. The poignant story tells about father and son (Mykhailo Shchyhol, artist from Kyiv, and little Danylo (...

I first got to the “Gallery 36” birthday when it was two or three years old. At the time I was the host of the “Name” program on TET TV channel; the day before, on house concert at Andrii Kurkov, about whom I was preparing a program, I had met with Oleksandr Milovzorov,...

Only a lazy one will not recall that it is written “Artist by the grace of God” on Vladyslav Shereshevsky’s calling card. An egoistic, brazen, and self-confident claim, but, on the other hand, there is no denying that Shereshevsky is a talented and original artist. Once you see...

I am not afraid to repeat that the rumors saying that the cinema, Ukrainian one in particular, is dead are very much exaggerated. While someone complains that the money allotted for cinema production is catastrophically little and that the potential talents are “buried,” in the village...