Stanford to Host Second Ukrainian Film Fest

October 1-2, 2009. Palo Alto, CA.

The Ukrainian Film Club of Columbia University will present a film festival “Ukrainian Cinema Now” at Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA. Yuri Shevchuk will bring a program of three screenings to Stanford Campus on October 1-2, 2009. It includes a variety of film genres and directors, both established and new ones. Four films will have their Pacific Coast premiere. The Stanford audience will enjoy the opportunity for the first time to see works by such filmmakers as Mykhailo Kaliuzhny, Olena Tereshkova-Maryshkina, and Victoria Melnykova. A special thematic screening will focus on “Ukrainian Emigration. Old and New”. This is the second time this year that Stanford hosts such an event co-organized with the UFCCU.

Festival Program

THE LIVING Wins Grand Prix at Geneva Media Forum.

September 8, 2009. Geneva, Switzerland.

Serhiy Bukovsky’s feature documentary The Living, 2008 won the Grand Prix of the International Media North South Forum in Geneva, Switzerland.  [The Living] “gives voice to the last survivors of the terrible famine in Ukraine between 1932-1933.  The film puts Stalin's use of famine as a weapon in perspective.  A true cinematic vision and the discerning eye of the author, with a strong narrative and rare testimony; a hidden history which obliges us to stay vigilant," emphasized the jury presided by the director Daniel Schweizer.

Technology of Genocide at University of Connecticut

October 25, 2009. University of Connecticut.

The two-part documentary film Technology of Genocide by will be shown at the University of Connecticut Homer Babbidge Library as part of a larger program to raise international awareness of the genocidal Ukrainian famine of 1932-1933, organized at this University.

“Fourth Wave” by Melnykova to Have Canadian Premiere

November 26-27, 2009. Toronto, Canada.

UFCCU will bring Victoria Melnykova’s new feature documentary The Fourth Wave, 2008 for its Canadian premiere organized by the Petro Jacyk Program for the study of Ukraine.

THE LIVING at Margaret Mead Film and Video Festival

November 12-15, 2009. New York, NY.

The Living, feature documentary by Serhiy Bukovsky made in 2008 to mark the 75th Anniversary of the genocidal Great Famine of 1932-1933 in Ukraine, a.k.a. the Holodomor, will be shown at the Margaret Mead Film and Video Festival held at the Museum of Natural History in New York City. The festival bills itself as “the longest-running, premiere showcase for international documentaries in the United States, encompassing a broad spectrum of work, from indigenous community media to experimental nonfiction. The Festival is distinguished by its outstanding selection of titles, which tackle diverse and challenging subjects, representing a range of issues and perspectives, and by the forums for discussion with filmmakers and speakers.”