Kateryna Gornostai

Kateryna Gornostai born March 15 1989 is a Ukrainian film director screenwriter and film editor She is a jury member of the film festival WizArt since 2014 and a member of the Ukrainian Film Academy since 2017 Kateryna Gornostai was born in Lutsk Volyn Oblast on March 15 1989 She was the only child of psychotherapists Svetlana Vaskivska and Pavel Gornostay First Kateryna studied biology 2010 and later Journalism 2012 MD at the National University of KyivMohyla Academy Having graduated from the Marina Razbezhkina and Mikhail Ugarovs Documentary Film and Theatre in Moscow from October 2012 to November 2013 she returned home to Kyiv Kateryna Gornostai started her career as a documentary filmmaker in 2012 She is currently working on educational documentaries as well as her own documentary and fiction film projects Kateryna also teaches documentary filmmaking at KyivMohyla Academys School of Journalism She began to experiment with fiction films and hybrid forms Her aesthetic and ability to convey life without artificiality have caught the attention of film critics