Hanna Lohvinenko’s film about life under shelling receives an award at a prestigious film festival

For three days, the XV All-Ukrainian Screen Arts Festival, Dnipro-cinema, named after Danylo Sakhnenko, was held in Kyiv. The participants in the festival demonstrated the creative work of branches and cells of the Ukrainian Association of Cinematographers (UAC). In addition, the works of cinematographers from all over Ukraine were also presented. Among the 80 works from all over the country was the author’s work by Hanna Lohvinenko, a member of the Zaporizhzhia regional organization of the National Union of Journalists of Ukraine (NUJU)/press officer of the Department of State Emergency Situations Service (SESS) in the Zaporizhzhia Region. Hanna, together with her fellow rescuers and journalists, often travels to the front-line areas, filming life under constant shelling.

In total, the works were divided into five categories: documentaries, feature films, animated works, TV programs, and student works.

Hanna Lohvinenko‘s short film about the life of the civilian population and the work of rescuers in the front-line settlements of the Zaporizhzhia Region called Life On The Frontier. Let’s Hold On was presented in the category of documentary films. According to the results of the jury’s evaluations, Hanna‘s work received the award For The Best Debut At The Festival.

“My film tells about the life of people from the front-line cities of Orikhiv, Huliaipole, and Stepnohirsk from the beginning of the full-scale invasion until today. I tell why people live there for two and a half years, why they didn’t leave, and how they survive the difficult conditions of the war. My idea was to draw the audience’s attention to the catastrophe that is happening in our region due to the aggression of the russian federation,” says Hanna.

At the end of the festival, all participants attended master classes in the art of cinema from the film director of such outstanding films as Dovbush, Guide, and Mama, Oles Sanin.

Call the Zaporizhzhia JSC at 096 277 5352 (Nataliya Kuzmenko and Valentyna Manzhura, the Zaporizhzhia JSC coordinators). The Center’s address is 152 Sobornyi Avenue.

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Dariya Zyrianova