Myroslav Slaboshpytskyi
Myroslav Mykhailovych Slaboshpytskyi (Ukrainian: Мирослав Михайлович Слабошпицький; born October 17, 1974) is a Ukrainian film director.
Myroslav Slaboshpytskyi | |
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Мирослав Михайлович Слабошпицький | |
 Myroslav Slaboshpytskyi at the 6th Odessa International Film Festival | |
| Born | October 17, 1974 Kyiv, Ukrainian SSR, USSR |
| Citizenship |  Ukraine |
| Alma mater | National University of Theater, Film, and TV in Kyiv |
| Occupation | Film director, Screenwriter |
Notable work | The Tribe |
Biography
Slaboshpytskyi was born to Ukrainian writer and literary critic Mykhailo Slaboshpytskyi. Until 1982 he lived in Lviv.
Slaboshpytskyi graduated from National University of Theater, Film, and TV in Kyiv with a focus in film and television directing. He has worked as a reporter, has written scripts for film and television. In the early 1990s he worked at the Dovzhenko Film Studios.
Since 2000 he has been a Member of the Ukrainian Association of Cinematographers. He was Vice-president of the Association of Young Filmmakers of Ukraine.
In 2014 Slaboshpytskyi broke on the scene with his pic “The Tribe” which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival. The film is entirely in Ukrainian Sign Language with no subtitles. It won the Nespresso Grand Prize, as well as the France 4 Visionary Award and the Gan Foundation Support for Distribution Award at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival's International Critics' Week section.
24 October 2018 became known was Myroslav Slaboshpytskyi has come on to direct film “Tiger”. The pic, based on the 2010 non-fiction book by John Vaillant. Focus acquired the book in 2010 and at one point the project was eyed as a potential acting vehicle for Brad Pitt and directing job for Darren Aronofsky. In the end the two have decided to stay on as producers and allow Slaboshpystskyi step in to direct.[1]
Filmography
As director
As a screenwriter
As a decorator
- 2006 : The Incident (Жах, short film)
As editor
- 2009 : Diagnosis (Діагноз, short film)
Interesting facts
Slaboshpytskyi was a close friend of now deceased Ukrainian modern writer Oles Ulianenko.
