Lev Omelchenko
Directing
- Born
- January 14, 1993 (age 33) · Kramatorsk, Ukraine
Lev Omelchenko is an Emmy Award Winning film director and cinematographer based in Atlanta, GA. He is an Ukrainian-born Brooklyn-raised immigrant. Utilizing both documentary and narrative forms, Lev’s work focuses on telling poetic and cinematic stories of joyful militancy in the American South. His films have screened and won awards across major US festivals including New Orleans Film Festival, Brooklyn Film Festival, Indie Memphis and Prismatic Ground. His work has also screened at UPenn, MIT, Columbia, Emory and Pratt Institute among other higher education institutions. His work has been featured by Al Jazeera, More Perfect Union, Vice and Atlanta Community Press Collective. He is a distinguished fellow at the Hambidge Center for the Creative Arts and Sciences.
Known for
Behind the camera6
- 2026A City in the Forest Director, Director of Photography, Producer
- 2023Olive Director, Editor
- 2023Twenty Director, Editor
- 2023Beneath the Concrete, The Forest Director, Editor
- 2022Free Noir Papillon Director, Editor
- 2020Lida Cinematography, Director, Editor