Svitlana Zinovyeva

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Svitlana Zinovyeva

Svitlana Zinovyeva is a Ukrainian cinematographer and producer. 
Born in Chelyabinsk, Russia, she graduated from Karpenko-Karyi Institute of Theater in Kyiv 
(specialization cinematographer, Suren Shabkazyan’s workshop). She worked at Odesa Fiction Films 
Studio and Kyivnaukfilm studio. She has made 7 fiction films and about 30 documentaries as a director 
of photography. 
 She is a member of the …

Known For

Red LandRed Land · 2001
Red Land
2001
MovieDocumentary
A story about a unique Ukrainian settlement that has existed in Brazil for over a hundred years. Surrounded by a foreign culture and religion, Ukrainians preserve the traditions and language of their people.
Sister ZoSister Zo · 2014
Sister Zo
2014
MovieDocumentary
Zo is a former soccer player. After leaving sports, she has to fight for survival and to define her new self.
LandslideLandslide · 2016
Landslide
2016
MovieDocumentary
Post-revolutionary Ukraine through a community of people who ‘try to build a new society’ in the cracks and pores of a collapsing social system. The film unfolds in central Kyiv, in a space that has been reclaimed from the city by forces of nature. As a result of a series of landslides, the area of Petrivska street has become untenable and was subsequently occupied by the outcasts and outsiders of all kinds. A secretive graffiti team, a group of tech geeks and an avant-garde gay theatre that fled the war in Luhansk all struggle to create a place where they could coexist outside the pressure of dysfunctional social structures.
The Ukrainian ArgumentThe Ukrainian Argument · 2015
The Ukrainian Argument
2015
MovieDocumentary
The collective portrait of the rank-and-file creators of the Ukrainian Revolution of Dignity of 2013-2014 and their individual opponents consists of many interviews with supporters and opponents of the Maidan, with the help of which modern history is impartially recorded. Sincere stories of completely different people on both sides of the barricades, different opinions, goals and hopes.
Nevseremos! People of MaidanNevseremos! People of Maidan · 2005
Nevseremos! People of Maidan
2005
MovieDocumentary
Sparked by the aftermath of the 2004 Ukrainian presidential election, Ukrainians began a series of protests against fraud and towards genuine democracy. History remembers it as the Orange Revolution, and here Sergii Masloboishchykov interrogates its foundation and motivations. By filming miners, villagers and students across Ukraine, the film maps a geography of the vast country that bridges the gap between East and West. Together they create a political argument for Ukrainian society, which, as the film states clearly, is a source of power.
Gregorian Syndrome. Part ThreeGregorian Syndrome. Part Three · 2016
Gregorian Syndrome. Part Three
2016
MovieDocumentary
Documentary short of love, betrayal and responsibility. Fenik and Alina live for the moment, as people lost on the brink of civilization and human morality. Both lovers have children, and they cherish the hope that they will soon be able to take the kids to live with them. But those are only words. Alina's infidelity pushes Fenik towards reconsideration, but will it last? The film is about the manifestation of human feelings in souls ravaged by alcohol. It hints at our common responsibility for the future. One wants to think that children will be healthily immune to this syndrome and will become better than their parents. That is how it is supposed to be.
EnjoyEnjoy · 2016
Enjoy
2016
MovieDocumentary
The film is about street art in the Crimea and about artists who choose radically different paths.
JunkJunk · 2013
Junk
2013
MovieDocumentary
Where geography and common sense doesn't work, there is a place for him. This is a story about a person who has everything. It is not quite the same we used to imagine as the products of contemporary system of values. Living on the edge between alcoholic dreams and awakenings Fenik has found his niche. The only reason to worry about is that scrap metal will be gone soon.

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Beyond EuroBeyond Euro · 2012
Beyond Euro
2012
MovieDocumentary
"Beyond Euro" is the result of collective work of the youth creative laboratory. His idea can probably be defined as an attempt to impersonate the crowd. The ability to see, to distinguish a human face from a crowd that seems faceless, cohesive on a sporting, political, or any other basis. And tell me about it. That's probably the point. Both the Almanac and the laboratory. How successful this experiment is will be judged by the audience. In any case, it took place. And here is a series of attentive, thoughtful, concerned or ironic, but always caring and independent views of young authors on the reality that surrounds them. To see a separate human face in a crowd also means to keep your own. In any crowd... which is thus personified and gets a chance to turn into a society. The thought is not new, but it needs to be reminded.

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