Maryna Stepanska
Writing
- Born
- January 1, 1982 (age 44) · Kiev, Ukraine
Maryna Stepanska (Kyiv, Ukraine, 1982) is a Ukrainian film director and screenwriter. She graduated from Karpenko-Kary National University of Film, Theatre, and Television (Film Department, specialty: director) in 2004. Further, Stepanska worked at the experimental theatre "School," where she studied the methodology of working with non-actors. She completed a 6-month ARCHIDOC program for documentary filmmakers at the French film and television school La Femis.
Her feature debut, "Falling," received several awards at international film festivals and three awards of the National "Golden Dzyga" in 2017-18. She is a co-writer of a few feature films; the last one is "Forever-Forever," directed by Anna Buriachkova, which premiered at Venice IFF in 2023. Currently, she is working on a documentary feature, "It's not a full picture," that follows the lives of Ukrainian filmmakers since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
Known for
Behind the camera11
- 2024Forever-Forever Writer
- 2021Wir, Europa Script, Art Direction, Director
- 2019Desaturated Writer, Director
- 2017Falling Writer, Director
- 2016Self-Defense Camera Operator
- 2016Lustration Camera Operator
- 2015Man's Work Producer, Director, Screenplay
- 2014Violoncello Screenplay
- 2013Holidays Editor, Camera Operator, Screenplay, Producer, Director
- TBAIt’s Not A Full Picture