Myroslav Slaboshpytskyi

Myroslav Mykhailovych Slaboshpytskyi (Ukrainian: Мирослав Михайлович Слабошпицький; born October 17, 1974) is a Ukrainian film director.

Myroslav Slaboshpytskyi
Мирослав Михайлович Слабошпицький
Myroslav Slaboshpytskyi at the 6th Odessa International Film Festival
Born (1974-10-17) October 17, 1974
Citizenship Ukraine
Alma materNational University of Theater, Film, and TV in Kyiv
OccupationFilm 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

  • 2006 : The Incident (Жах, short film)
  • 2009 : Diagnosis (Діагноз, short film)
  • 2010 : Deafness (Глухота, short film)
  • 2010 : Мудаки. Арабески, short film
  • 2012 : Nuclear Waste (Ядерні відходи, short film)
  • 2012 : Україно, goodbye!, (short film)
  • 2014 : The Tribe (Плем'я)
  • TBA : Luxembourg

As a screenwriter

  • 2009 : Diagnosis (Діагноз, short film)
  • 2010 : Deafness (Глухота, short film)
  • 2012 : Nuclear Waste (Ядерні відходи, short film)
  • 2014 : The Tribe (Плем'я)
  • TBA : Luxembourg

As producer

  • 2006 : The Incident (Жах, short film)
  • 2009 : Diagnosis (Діагноз, short film)

As a decorator

  • 2006 : The Incident (Жах, short film)

As editor

  • 2009 : Diagnosis (Діагноз, short film)

As an actor

  • 1995 : The Guard (Сторож, short film)
  • 1999 : Поет та княжна

Interesting facts

Slaboshpytskyi was a close friend of now deceased Ukrainian modern writer Oles Ulianenko.

References


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