Kateryna Gornostai
Senior lecturer. “Documentary Production” Course
CONTACTS
EDUCATION
Kateryna Gornostai was born in Lutsk, Ukraine in 1989. Studied biology and later journalism at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. From 2012 to 2013, she studied documentary filmmaking at Marina Razbezhkina and Mikhail Ugarov’s School of Documentary Films and Theatre. She started a career as a documentary filmmaker before moving to hybrid and feature films. “Stop-Zemlia” is the director’s full-length feature debut, which was presented in the Generation 14+ competition of the Berlinale and won the Crystal Bear Award from the Youth Jury. She also teaches film directing at the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. She lives and works in Kyiv.
Filmography:
2015 Away, 11 min, fiction
2015 Maidan Is Everywhere, 37 min, documentary
2017 Lilac, 30 min, fiction
2018 Crocodile, 18 min, fiction
2021 Stop-Zemlia, 122 min, fiction.