Larysa Artiugina

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Larysa Mykhailivna Artyugina
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Born23 May 1971
Vinnytsia, Ukraine
NationalityUkrainian
Alma mater Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv
Kyiv National I. K. Karpenko-Kary Theatre, Cinema and Television University
Occupation(s)Documentary film director, activist

Larysa Mykhailivna Artyugina (born 23 May 1971) is a Ukrainian documentary film director and activist. She is a member of the Union of Cinematographers of Ukraine, the Union of Theater Actors of Ukraine, the creative association Babylon'13 and the Assembly of Cultural Figures of Ukraine. She also heads the public organization New Donbas NGO and produces work on the docUA Platform of Ukrainian Documentaries. [1] [2]

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Biography

Artiugina was born in 1971 in Vinnytsia, Ukraine. In 1993 she graduated from Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, with a major in applied nuclear physics. In 1999 she graduated from Kyiv National I. K. Karpenko-Kary Theatre, Cinema and Television University (KNUTKT), Department of Television Directing as a director, journalist and camera operator. In 2006 she graduated from the Hollywood School in Kyiv. Richard Crevolin's writing studio, Barry Primus' acting studio, Larry Kostroff's production.

In 2007 she completed an internship under the International Visitor Leadership Program of the US State Department "Film as a Reflection of National Identity" and 2008–2015 she returned to teach at KNUTKT, where with a colleague, she coordinated the second-year undergraduates, future documentary filmmakers and said during an interview.

We decided to give them a task – to shoot about the Maidan. They had such a chance – that of filming history. We asked them to inform us every time they were going off to the Maidan. Later, I would greatly worry about them, especially during the days of mass killing. However, I realized that they were already independent filmmakers, and it was their own decision to shoot there – I could not influence it. [2]

After the Maidan Revolution, the body of work that the students created "gained renown as a series of documentaries called Black Diary of the Maidan." [2]

Activism

As is a founder of the New Donbas NGO, Artiugina began organizing reconciliation projects for people from Donbas, primarily for school students in 2014. She also was involved in creating documentaries about the Euromaidan Revolution of Dignity and later shot her own film – “How We Became Military Volunteers” – about the Donbas battalion soldiers. She also created “Bohdan’s Happiness” telling the story about the war's beginning in Eastern Ukraine through the eyes of a six-year-old boy. [2]

When she joined Euromaidan, at its very start, she wanted to protect her friend Yehor Soboliev, who at the time was a journalist and activist and became a member of the Ukrainian parliament. To do so, she shot a film about him so that there would be substantial evidence if anything happens to him. [2]

In June 2018, she joined in an open letter from cultural figures, politicians and human rights activists calling on the world's leaders to defend Ukrainian prisoner director Oleh Sentsov and other political prisoners. [2]

Selected works

Selected filmography

Awards

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References

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  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Далецька, Юлія (2017-11-18). "Лариса Артюгіна: Майдан навчив українців нічого не боятись (Larysa Artyugina: Maidan taught Ukrainians not to be afraid of anything)". Український інтерес (euromaidenpress). Retrieved 2022-03-04.