Ivan

Ivan Orlenko

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https://m.imdb.com/name/nm4474086/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk

Film and theater director, scriptwriter, production designer.

Worked in theaters of Ukraine, Russia, Germany, Hungary, Serbia in different roles – director, video

director, set designer, performer, assistant director.

His first short film “Playground” was selected by European Short Pitch in 2015

His second short film “In our synagogue” is a first Ukrainian fiction film in Yiddish language. (World

premiere – Tampere Film Festival 2019) This film has won dozen of awards in Ukraine and abroad.

Ivan is currently working on his debut feature film and other film and theater projects.

ARTISTIC PROJECTS:

Year: 2022 - ongoing

Project: Feature film “Madagaskarplan” (in development)

Role: Screenwriter, director

Production: Goodmorning distributions (UKR) and Luk Production (GER)

Supported by European Solidarity Fund for Ukrainian Films (ESFUF) 2024

Participated in WhenEastMeetWest 2024 (Torino, Italy)

Participated in Filmbridge Ukraine 2023 (Wajda Studio, Poland)

Participated in Sofia Meetings 2022(Sofia, Bulgaria)

Participated in Toronto IFF Industry platform (Toronto, Canada)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LGRHLA-iG_ySm9htr0JcjPKJno_WSMEc/view?usp=sharing

Year: 2024

Project: Theatrical performance “Labedyne ozero. Zona”

Role: Author of adaptation, director, set designer

Producrion: Vasyl’ka Odesa Ukrainian Theatre

Teaser: [открыть контакты](см. выше в блоке «контактная информация»)

Photos: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1r4ndDlH8CQkMyjce2XabmVaRlADILIco?usp=sharing
Year: 2024

Project: Short film “ZRIST” (in development)

Role: Screenwriter, director

Production: Goodmorning distributions (UKR) with support of president of Ukraine

Year: 2023

Project: Theatrical Performance “ SWAN LAKE. THE ZONE ” by Sergey Parajanov

Role: Director, author of adaptation

Production: Lesya Ukrainka Kyiv National Theatre

Videorecording: https://youtu.be/dt7aPsRtXmc?si=9hFGGC0fPf11yTtf

Photos: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1imFM49zKKsXg_Hb9HEnlgZJvI7sKEgbh?usp=sharing

Year: 2023

Project: Short film “AGNOSIA”

Role: Co-writer, set designer, storyboard artist.

Production: Goodmorning distributions (UKR) with support of Ukrainian State Film Agency

Currently in development, postponed due the war in Ukraine

Year: 2022

Project: “WAR AND PEACE” theatrical performance (dir. Boris Lejsijevich)

Role: Assistant director

Production: Belgrade National Theater (SER) with support of European Theatre Convention

https://www.narodnopozoriste.rs/en/performances/war-and-peace

Year: 2022

Project: Short film “DYING LIGHT”

Role: Scriptwriter, director, set designer, storyboard artist, editor

Production: JOY FILMS(UKR) with support of Odesa Film Studio, Lviv City Council, Ukrainian Cultural

Foundation and Ukrainian State Film Agency

Festival selections\awards

Ukrainian film academy award GOLDEN DZYGA 2023 nominee

Ukrainian film critics award KINOKOLO 2022 nominee
Molodist IFF 2022 out of competition

Wizart IFF 2022 national shorts competition

KINOSCRIPT screenwriting festival 2019 producers jury award, special mention

Teaser: https://youtu.be/84-VTxKffPQ?si=16Ea6XlaYyfcMjbq

Entire film: https://youtu.be/ko2ilsja9T8?si=4qjZlA0794fbY3Wz&t=1922

Year: 2020

Project: Author Film Laboratory (Educational project)

Role: Curator (scriptwriting and directing)

Production: TEO (UKR) with support of Harald Binder Cultural Enterprise

http://hbce.com.ua/year-project/2020/

Year: 2019

Project: Theater performance “IN THE BASEMENT”

Role: Author of the adaptation, director

Production: TEO (UKR)

First theatrical adaptation of the film “The green elephant” (1999 dir. Svetlana Baskova)

https://teotheater.com/na-podvale/

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLuVK2VwAdA

Trailer2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37uubhx2luE

Videorecording: https://youtu.be/9uK0Vvmng8w?si=6oZ8UBaHb7dfROHQ

Year: 2019

Project: Short film “IN OUR SYNAGOGUE ”

Role: Writer, director, art director, storyboard artist, editor.

Production: KINOELEKTRON (France) and TATOFILM (Ukraine) With support of Ukrainian Film Agency

and Strasbourg Metropolie

World premiere – Tampere, Finland (2019)

Winner of:
ODESA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2019 (FIPRESCI award for best short film)

BRUKIVKA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2019 (Award for best Ukrainian short film)

KINOSHOT International Film Festival 2019 National competition (Special jury mention)

KYIV CREETICS WEEK 2019 (KINOKOLO award for best short film)

BABEL FILM FESTIVAL 2019 (MAESTRALE award for best short film)

UKRAINIAN FILM ACADEMY 2020(Golden Dzyga award for best short fiction film)

WIZART IFF 2020 (Audience award, Special jury mention award)

KINOKO FF 2020 (Best short film award)

European Short Film Audience Award 2021-2022 Nominee

Trailer: https://youtu.be/8FdGwo_FsXA?si=yHpu2gJXsZ8j_NdZ

Entire film: https://youtu.be/U7BauNzZzTM?si=llxwtbILYcUAMQSw

Year: 2018

Project: Feature documentary “GogolDoc”

Role: Editor

Production: Trueman Production(UA)with support of Ukrainian State Film Agency

Winner of International Filmmaker Festival of New York 2019

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTmUu0aMOKE

Year:2018

Project: “NARMARNAH” performance

Role: Author of the adaptation and director. Based on M. Kulish play “People’s Malakhiy”

Production: “KURBAS10X10” festival of theater post-reflection at Mystetskiy Arsenal (Kyiv, Ukraine.)

Photos:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/16m8p8ZQZmvPIz8ggURGMPD7jmg70psK6?usp=share_link

Year: 2018

Project: “SEAGULL” theatrical performance (by A. Chekhov)

Role: director

Production: Vigszinhaz theater (Budapest, Hungary)

Year: 2018

Project: “Die Sackgasse der Zensur oder ein seltsamer Vorfall beim Zensieren eines deutschen Pornos”
videoart collage installation

Role: Author

Production: Intersection of Parallels artistic laboratory with support of Goethe Institut

Year: 2017

Project: “Furcht und Hoffnung in Deutchland. Ich bin das Volk” theater performance

Role: European Theater Convention invited specialist in field of set design.

Production: Shaushpiel Dortmund, Germany.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uyKRfw3R6c

Year 2017

Project: Feature documentary “Sex in Soviet Union”

Role: Researcher

Production: Gracia Films (US)

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Year:2014-2015

Project: short film “PLAYGROUND”

Role: Screenwriter, director, producer

Production: Kinovyr

Participated in:

Odessa International Film Festival 2014 Work In Progress

European Short Pitch 2015

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OU1XpptDZLg

2012-2013

Project: “GOLDEN DONKEY” by Apulei. Theater almanac.

Role: Co-director and performer

Production: MIR4+Elektroteatr Stanislavsky (Moskow, Russia)

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpgAKu_eyoE
Year: 2010-2011

Project: Short film “CROSS” (dir. M. Vroda).

Role: Production designer

Production: LES 3 LIGNES (FRA)

Received a Golden Palm Branch at Cannes Film Festival (2011)

Entire film: https://youtu.be/fxOrPTfZZlE?si=SHpnmGI4y1m_gS0e

Year: 2010-2011

Project: Theater performance “Shakespeare vs Ionesco. Мacbeth”

Role: Author of the adaptation, director and set designer.

Production: In collaboration with theater center “Pasika” (Kiev,Ukraine)

Finalist of «Young directors review of CIS countries, Baltic and Georgia» 2011

Photos: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/10qs2OuzufFsguZsrGdkCAbVXaNREixmc?usp=share_link

Year 2009

Project:: “Lenin love, Stalin love” (dir. A.Zholdack)

Role: Assistant director, video director.

Production: Cherkassy academic theater in collaboration with Zholdack Svoboda Theatre.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_GcZBTvtPc&ab_channel=TurkuCityTheatre

Photos:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Xhz4oTthxHJvFWiqOI9aXh8kkdYxmBOy?usp=share_link

Year:2008

Project: “Woyzeck” (dir. A.Zholdack)

Role: Assistant director, video director.

Production: Cherkassy academic theater in collaboration with Zholdack Svoboda Theatre.

Fragments: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJ-MIsNHT2s&t=2s&ab_channel=MITsp

Fragments: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOhj64V8ZyE

Photos: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1LOx1vJfv7SDnXI0NkcSMur0A_C5o3nsT?usp=share_link

EDUCATION\LABS\WORKSHOPS
1996-2001 –Vinnitza school of arts

2004-2006 VPU - Historical faculty of Vinnitza Pedagogical University

2006 – 2010 KNUTKiT- Kiev national university for theater, film and television (drama director)

2007 MOVING ACADEMY FOR PERFORMING ARTS (“projection of icons” project – laboratory, focused on

projection, light and stage design)

2011 ODESSA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL Mark Travis Storytelling workshop

2012-2014 MIR 4 (Boris Yukhananov's Directors Workshop) Moscow.

2014 ACT FOR EUROPE theater workshop in Rustavi, Georgia

2015 EUROPEAN SHORT PITCH screenwriting workshop in Poznan, Poland

2015 MOLODIST International Film Festival Talents workshop ( in association with AG Kurzfilm)

2016 MOLODIST International Film Festival Talents workshop ( in association with AG Kurzfilm)

2017 European Theater Convention scholar at Shaushpiel Dortmund (in field of set design)

2017 “YOUNG FILMMAKERS FOR PEACE” program at GOEAST Film Festival. Wiesbaden, Germany.

2018 “INTERSECTION OF PARALLELS” international interdisciplinary artistic laboratory in Kiev, Ukraine.

2018 “CLASSPERIMENTAL” director residency at Vigszinhaz theater, Budapest, Hungary.