Myroslav Slaboshpytskyi

Myroslav Mykhailovych Slaboshpytskyi born 17 October 1974 is a Ukrainian film director 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 and 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 vicepresident of the Association of Young Filmmakers of Ukraine In 2002 due to a conflict with the head of the State Cinematography Service Anna Chmil he went to Russia to St Petersburg where he began working as a screenwriter and second director on a number of projects He worked at the Lenfilm film studio in St Petersburg in particular on the series Detachment with Igor Lifanov and others In 2014 Slaboshpytskyi broke on the scene with his film 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 Festivals Critics Week section On 24 October 2018 it was announced that Slaboshpytskyi would direct the film Tiger based on the 2010 nonfiction book by John Vaillant Focus acquired the book in 2010 and at one point the project was seen as a potential acting vehicle for Brad Pitt and a directing job for Darren Aronofsky In the end the two have decided to stay on as producers and allow Slaboshpystskyi to step in to direct