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January 20, 2011

Profile of a Filmmaker: Liza Kliuzko


Meet new promising film talent from Ukraine Liza (Yelyzaveta) Kliuzko, born on January 19, 1990 in Kyiv. Liza Graduated from an art school as a graphic artist. She is currently completing her studies as film director at the Ivan Karpenko-Kary University for Film, Theater, and TV, atelier of Mykhailo Illienko. Filmography (all feature shorts): Mama-Yaha (2008), Three Hours between Airplanes (2009), The Wardrobe (2010), and If You Were (2010). Her short The Wardrobe was awarded the Best Cinematography Prize at the 2010 Open Night Film Festival and the Viewers’ Best Film Prize at the Ternopil Linden Film Festival. Her graduation project, dedicated to a first sexual experience, is being produced in Ukrainian together with three other directors. Ms. Kliuzko’s greatest creative desire is “to hear viewers’ reaction to her films in a movie theater.” As a film maker Liza is most of all interested in the human soul. In a nod to the creative promise Liza amply demonstrates in her The Wardrobe, the Ukrainian Film Club & CU created English subtitles for the film and screened it in New York City, University of Toronto, and will show it at Stanford University, Palo Alto, California as part of the annual film fest Ukrainian Cinema Now will be introduced by Yuri Shevchuk on February 10-11, 2011.


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