Mahіsterka kіnoznavstva (KNUTKіT іm. І.K. Karpenka-Karoho)

Zlata Yefimenko is a Ukrainian film producer with a Master’s degree in Cinematography from the Kyiv National I.K. Karpenko-Kary University of Theatre, Cinema and Television. Since 2016, she has worked in the film industry in various roles — from assistant producer and project coordinator to executive and creative producer. Her experience includes feature-length documentaries and fiction films, music videos, social campaigns, and international film service projects (Israel, India).

Among her films are Sad Portraits, Man with a Photo Camera, Hostages of War, I Want to Go Home, and In Her Arms. These works have been selected by festivals such as KISFF, Molodist IFF, Thessaloniki IFF, Bangkok IFF, Khmelnytskyi Film Festival, Ukraina! Festival Filmowy, ZagrebDox Pro, and the Warsaw International Film Festival.

In collaboration with Good Morning Films and Broom Films, she is currently producing the feature fiction film Romance, Apocalypse or Long-Distance Train, which was pitched at the Odesa International Film Festival. As a co-producer, she is also involved in Kira’s Dream (a feature fiction film in post-production, Good Morning Films). Together with Salameya Film, she is developing the feature-length documentary Searching for Mozart Jr. and producing the 12-episode series Alchemy of Heroism.

At EF PICTURES, Zlata is also producing the debut psychological horror film Disgust, directed by Roman Volosevych — her long-term collaborator since university.

She is the founder of the cross-sectoral social project On Equals (raising awareness about employment challenges for people with disabilities in Ukraine), served as an expert at the Ukrainian State Film Agency (2021–2022), and participated in Producers Network (Marché du Film, Cannes), JumpGate (DocLisboa), WAMA Film Lab, Script Development Program (Netflix x Ukrainian Film Academy), Docu/Help, and the Goethe-Institut Cultural Lab.