Zoya Laktionova

Director of photography (DOP) (4) Director (5) Film editor (3) Leading actress (1) Operator (1) Screenwriter (2)

  • GenderFemale
  • Age39 years
  • Date of birth10 December 1984
  • Place of birthMarіupoly
  • Country of birthUkraine
Education

Artistic educational background

My Street Films Ukraine 2018 - documentary filmmaking Ji.Hlava Academy 2018 (Czech) - documentary filmmaking The Sergey Bukovsky Film Program 2019 (Ukraine) - documentary filmmaking Documentary Storytelling with personal voice, B2BDOC workshop 2019 (Moldova) International documentary workshop with Jacek Bławut, Jacek Piotr Bławut, Miroslav Dembinski 2019 (Ukraine)

 

Biography

Zoya was born in Mariupol (Ukraine), and then moved to Kyiv, where she studied and worked in the field of digital marketing, and was fond of film photography. Collaborated as a photographer with Ukrainian artists, and participated in exhibitions as an independent photographer. For the first time she came to the world of documentary cinema as one of the heroines of the film "Ma" dir. Maria Stoianova in 2017. "Ma" took the Grand Prix in the MyStreetFilmsUkraine 2017 competition.

A year later Zoya also decided took part in MyStreetFilmsUkraine 2018 - the educational program of the Film and Urban Film Festival 86, and won MyStreetFilmsUkraine 2018 competition with her first film “Diorama”.

Zoya studied at The Sergey Bukovsky Film Program, participated in international master classes of directors who collaborated with Ulrich Seidl and Roy Anderson.

"Diorama" festival story:

"86" IFFU (Ukraine) - Grand Prix in MyStreetFilms program 2018

DOK Leipzig 2018 (Germany) - International Competition Short Film

Ji.hlava IDFF 2018 (Czech)

Cottbus FilmFestival (Germany)

WIZ-ART LISFF 2018 (Ukraine) - national competition

Open night 2018 (Ukraine)

Lampa.doc 2018 (Ukraine)

IceDoc 2019 (Iceland) - Documentary Film Competition

Bamberger Kurzfilmtage 2019 (Germany)

Uppsala film festival 2019 (Sweden)

The International Short Film Festival of Cinema and Sea 2019 (Morocco) - official competition

Signes de Nuit 2019 (Portugal) - Documentary Film Competition

Cinema and You 2019 (Ukraine) - short documentary competition