Introducing the Shortlisted Artists of the Arts Foundation Futures Awards 2024 for Short Documentary Film!

Jessica Bishopp Jessica Bishopp
Rosie Morris Rosie Morris
Cherish Oteka, Cherish Oteka (they/them)
Kateryna Pavlyuk Kateryna Pavlyuk

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Still wrapping my head around this but I’ve been shortlisted for the Arts Foundation Futures Award for short documentary film, alongside three mad talented filmmakers

Directed a film for Al Jazeera English about the wins, losses & many battles fought by a chess prodigy and his tireless mother. Maksym & Iryna are two of the millions of refugees who fled Ukraine last year. And, winning a tournament on his fourth day in the UK, Maksym is one in a million

Galvanised, incensed and inspired after the #CIJSummer conference, as one of the very lucky #CIJLyraMckee trainees. Still shaking off goosebumps after hearing Olga Rudenko talk about running the The Kyiv Independent while bombs fall and sirens wail

10/10 chat with The Balcony Movie director, Paweł Łoziński, last night Barbican Centre

Wrote a piece for The Vinyl Factory about some very thin and very blue records that were a pretty big deal in the Soviet Union

Delighted to have guest curated this very excellent doc for New East Cinema, screening Barbican Centre on 7 Nov. Roll up roll up and come spend some time on a leading Polish director's balcony

Feel like Kateryna Pavlyuk and Alissa Timoshkina are putting the fragmented parts of my personality back together:
Cooking workshop (delicious Eastern European summer salads) + queer tableau vivants

Get your feet stuck in. FREE until the end of this weekend
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Programmed by emerging curator Kateryna Pavlyuk, this season offers a three-course spread of two seminal Soviet films - Sergei Parajanov's The Colour of Pomegranates and Oleksandr Dovzhenko's Earth - and a formal masterpiece long lost to censorship, Bread by Mykola Shpykovskyi (📸below).

Now streaming on the #CinemaOfIdeas , Feast from the East celebrates the film & food of Eastern Europe.

To accompany the season, we commissioned Ukrainian chefs Katrya Kalyuzhna & Viktoriya Popin to share a selection of their favourite bread recipes: bit.ly/3ybBgea

Delighted to have curated a film programme spotlighting the cinematic & culinary fruits of the east end of Europe. FEAST FROM THE EAST is streaming on the Independent Cinema Office #cinemaofideas until 11 July. Free, but donations to Центр Довженка & World Central Kitchen are encouraged - and needed.

As a newsroom witnessing the war from inside Ukraine, we want to set the record straight.

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⤵️ What they said. A joy to see the film screened last night Curzon Bloomsbury. More thanks due than I have characters to use, but infinitely grateful to the phenomenal women who shared their experiences, the indefatigable team Latin American Women's Aid - LAWA, and Media Trust for making it all possible

Right now a cruel bill that seeks to turn people fleeing for their lives from war & persecution into criminals is progressing through Parliament.

Help us spread the word – please like and share.

#NotACriminal #TogetherWithRefugees 🧡

Latin American Women's Aid (@lawaLondon) runs the only refuges in Europe and in the UK by and for Latin American women and children fleeing gender-based violence.

Watch their new film 'Home is LAWA', directed by Kateryna Pavlyuk here ⬇️ #VolunteerFilms youtube.com/watch?v=Q98Z4r…

my piece for HuffPost on the hoops and labyrinths of the UK visa scheme for Ukrainians

This #IWD2022 , releasing the film I made for @lawalondon, the only UK org & refuge run for and by Latin American women. Funding for women’s refuges has dropped dramatically; violence against women has not. Watch the film & donate £8 this 8 March here: ow.ly/KZFN50I83CG

take a look UK, take a good look

No. Next question

this afternoon at the White Eagle Club in Balham. The video doesn’t do justice to the dizzying generosity we were met with. We had an almost overwhelming amount of donations to sort. What a wonderful problem to have #StandWithUkraine