PARADOX
Film
PARADOX FILM is an independent production company was founded in 2020. The company brings together professionals with many years of experience in cinema production. The company is based in Kyiv, Ukraine. We are focused on the production of documentaries of urgent social problems in Ukraine and Eastern Europe.
Viktoriia Slopitska was born in Ukraine in 1970. She graduated from the National Theatre, Cinema and Television University, the production department. Viktoria started a career in the film industry in 1990. During 2003–2007 she worked as a chief specialist of the department of analysis and examination of the economics of public procurement programs at the Department of Cinematography of Ministry of Culture of Ukraine.
Since 2008 she works in Ukraine as the producer and director of cinema and television, senior teacher of the National Theatre, Cinema and Television University. She lives in Ukraine and works as a producer and film director for cinema and television. Since 2020 Viktoria works for PARADOX Film production as a producer.
FILMOGRAPHY:
2022 – Elevation (doc., dir Max Rudenko)
2019 – The trains (doc., dir. Machiie Drigas. Co-production: Poland, Ukraine, Canada)
2017 – Pretty ballerina (producer and director)
2014 – Piano (doc., dir.Vita-Mariia Drigas. Co-production: Poland, Ukraine)
2014 – Free people (doc., dir. Ganna Yarovenko)
Max Rudenko was born in Mykolayiv, Ukraine. He graduated from the School of Cinema and Television in 2009, where he studied documentary film directing.
He continued to study at the Gerasimov State Institute of Cinematography (VGIK), the Cinematography Department and graduated in 2015. He lives in Ukraine and works as documentary film director and cinematographer.
FILMOGRAPHY:
2022 – Elevation, doc., 90 min.
2019 – A Portrait on the Background of Mountains, doc., 85 min.
2008 – Between the Wolf and the Dog, doc., 20 min.
2008 – I did what I wanted, doc., 20 min.
ELEVATION
Documentary, 90 min
Film director: Max Rudenko
Producer: Viktoriia Slopitska, Max Rudenko
Production: PARADOX Film / Ukraine (2018–2023)
Planned release: 2023, October
The coach and his trainee are on the edge of the ski jump
during the intense period of preparation for a new height.
SYNOPSIS
Vasyl is a former ski jumper, who now works as a coach at the ski jumping school for children in the Carpathians. He is a loner, and sports are all his life. Zhenya is Vasyl’s favorite trainee. For five years he spent lots of energy making her a champion. With her success, his dream comes true. As the girl grows up, she decides to try herself in another area of life not connected to sports. Vasyl’s work seems no longer makes sense. But he founds the strength to start all over again.
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