Iryna Kostyuk

Film and TV Producer/Creator, Media Expert

Expertise: content production (theatrical features, TV dramas, digital content, non scripted, TV shows etc), animated features development and production, original formats development (scripted and non-scripted), media management, international content acquisitions and distribution, TV scheduling.

Experience in media: since 2000

Featured Employers: 2014 - present: producer, FILM.UA Group, Animagrad Studio; 2010 - 2014: Head of Channel, TET TV Channel (1+1 Media Group); 2006 - 2010: co-founder, CEO Media Resources Management; 2000 - 2006: international content acquisitions executive Inter Media Group.

Contribution and achievements:

• Nominee for National Teletriumph Award in "Producer of Series" category ("Doctor on Call", 2016)
• Pitches of MAVKA. THE FOREST SONG animated feature film:

local: winner of KMW Pitchings (2015), winner of National State Film Agency pitchings (2016) international: CARTOON Movie pitch (Bordeaux, 2017), CARTOON 360 (Barcelona, 2017), first Ukrainian project to be admitted, BE Film (Brussels, 2017)

• Author of masterclasses and lector within Skill Bill media education program ("Think as a show-runner: idea, development and pitching", "2 POV's of Being a content producer/creator: broadcaster vs production company", etc)
• Member of the International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences;
• Head of Jury Board of Ukrainian short film festival "De Kino" (2016, 2017)
• Member of Ukrainian TV Academy
• Member of the Board of Ukrainian TV Academy
• Member of Jury of the International Emmy Awards
• Jury of National Teletriumph Awards
• founder of first Ukrainian on-line media news recourse www.mediananny.com
• founder of Fashion Film Festival Kyiv
• Alumni of writing intensive master class by New York Film Academy (2016)