Jury Biography – Victoria Zadorska

Come and meet Victoria Zadorska, one of the jury of the 13th Edition of Festival du Film Merveilleux et Imaginaire.

Victoria Zadorska

Independent Ukranian writer — director — filmmaker.

Graduated from Vasyl Stefanyk PNU, program: «Drama and Film Actor».
Student of “Serhiy Bukovsky Documentary Film Workshop 2022” and KNUTKiT named after Karpenko-Kary (master’s degree “television director”, 2022).

Director of the short documentary-prophecy film about the attack of the Russian Federation “3 days before”, which won an award at the “FunFest – International Video Festival (Madeira Island, Portugal) and was selected for the “Pyeongtaek International Film Festival” (Korea); “Tbilisi International Student Film Festival” (Georgia); “Miami Social Change Youth Film Festival” (USA); “Premio De Periodismo Alberta Giménez” (Spain), “Democracy 2022 – Youth Film Challenge” (USA); “First-Time filmmaker sessions” (United Kingdom).

Screenwriter and author of the idea for the TV series “Vagitnyashki”, which received funding from the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences in the program “Development of the film project 2021”. Screenwriter of the short drama “Beauty”, which won the script competition of the international film festival “Bobritsa Film Festival 2021”. Screenwriter of the short drama “Ofira”, the short drama “Window”, the short tragicomedy “3+1”, the full-length mystical drama “Yav” and the socio-psychological drama “Verba” (the last three were submitted to Ukrainian State Film Agency 2022 pitching in the “debuts” category).

Author of 15 novels in comic genre, as well as adventure and love fantasy, folk fantasy (“Ya teper vid’ma”, “Popelyushka v mahichnomu sviti”, “Na mezhi”, “Pam’yatatymu tebe”, “Dity misyatsya”, etc). These texts had been read by more than 1M readers.

Filmography:
2022 — short documentary film “3 days before”
2022 — short experimental film “The Path”
2018-2020 — Fairy Tale “Baykі” – Season 89, 165, 166 (36 episodes)

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