Young and talented filmmaker. He is polish – ukrainian, born in 1998 in Ukraine. The representer of age of Aquarius. Graduate of Film Editing in Warsaw Film School.
He had a scholarship for achievement in film editing at time of film studies. He is an editor of many short films which was showed and awarded at many film festivals in the world. For example – his diploma feature short film “Nuclear Shadows” dir. Marek Leszczewski (39 screenings above the world ), VR feature short “Warsaw Rising” dir. Tomasz Dobosz (awarded at Los Angeles FF and Venice FF), feature short “East-West” (nominations at Santa Barbara IFF, In The PALACE IFF), feature short “Just for a while” (nominations at FPFF Gdynia, Krakow Film Festiwal, New Horizons IFF) and more. Now he is working on two full lengths documentaries “My Body/ My story” and “Go&See”.
He is also working as a colourist, the film which he was grading had a nomination at Camerimage for best short film cinematography.
He was editing for clients like Reserved, Lego, Jennifer Lopez Inglot, Unicef, Biedronka, KFC, Gino Rossi, Lasocki, CCC, Dewar’s Whisky, Canal +, Misbhv, ING Bank, PKO Bank, Ekstraklasa, Alpro, Pajak sport, Smyk, Facebook, Ziaja, Empik, Kropla Beskidu, KPH, Panattoni.
Yakiv is passionate of arthouse cinema, documentary films and storytelling. He is also a passionate of analog photography, film and music. He was starting his adventure with filmmaking from shooting skateboarding documentaries in Ukraine. He loves to tell an important stories which are opening minds.
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