Биография
Maria Stoianova was born in 1986 in Kyiv. She is a documentary film director. She graduated from Kyiv-Mohyla Academy with a degree in cultural studies and from the Central European University with a degree in social anthropology. She has made seven short films, including as a screenwriter and editing director. Winner, of the third special prize in the Young Ukrainian Artists' competition MUHi 2021.
Her film Ma has won awards at several international film festivals. Stoianova has participated in such programs for young filmmakers as East-West Talent Lab, B2B Doc, IDFA Academy, and studied in Serhii Bukovskyi’s DOC Workshop. She is currently developing her debut feature film Fragments of Ice.
Selected filmography: Second Wave (2020), Over the Styx (2019), Ma (2017), Exarch (2014).
Выставки
THE SECOND WAVE
2020 / experimental doc / Ukraine / 5’
Odesa International Film Festival, 2021 UA
HER Docs Film Festival, 2021 POL
Festival of Nations, 2021 AT
Ukrainian Film Festival Berlin 2021 DE
Exhibition MUHi 2021 Young Ukrainian Artists’ competition – Special prize
ABOVE THE STYX
2019 / documentary / Ukraine / 29’
IHRDFF Docudays UA, 2019 UA - Jury special mention
Molodist Kyiv IFF, 2019 UA
Wiz-Art Lviv International Short Film Festival 2019 UA
DOK Leipzig, International Programme Short Film, 2019 DE
IFF FEBIOFEST, 2020 SK
Freiburger Filmforum, 2021 DE
MA
2017 / documentary / Ukraine / 17’
Festival of Film and Urbanism «86», MSF, 2017 UA - Grand Prix, Audience award
Biografilm Festival – International Celebration of Lives 2017 IT
ГОГОЛЬFEST, “CUC” Documentary film competition, 2017 UA - Grand Prix
Lampa.doc FF 2017 UA
Kinoshot Short Film Festival 2017 UA
Molodist Kyiv IFF, 2017 UA - Jury special mention
Wiz-Art International Short Film Festival 2017 UA
FilmFestival Cottbus 2017 GE
Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival 2017 CZ
One Shot International Short Film Festival 2018 ARM
Open City Documentary Festival 2018 UK
Astra Film Festival 2018 RO
Riga Pasaules Film Festival 2019 LV
Warsaw Under Construction 2018 POL
Exhibition: La línea del frente. El arte ucraniano - Mexica 2019, Canada 2020
EXARCH
2014 / documentary / Ukraine / 9’
American Independence FF, Go East IFF, Kyiv International Short FF, Which Human Rights' FF, One World International Human Rights Documentary FF, Let’s CEE FF, Schweizer Jugendfilmtage - Festival Ciné Jeunesse, Women Commentators Festival