Person
Mariia Ponomarova
Directing · Born 1991-05-09 · Kyiv, Ukraine
Biography
Mariia Ponomarova was born and raised in Kyiv, Ukraine. She is a film director, scriptwriter, producer and artistic researcher based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. She has worked in both documentary and fiction as a director and 1st AD. Mariia participated in the documentarists movement "Babylon'13 - cinema of civil protest" during the revolution in Ukraine. She studied film directing and screenwriting at Karpenko-Karyi Kyiv National University of Theatre, Cinema and Television and graduated with an MA degree in Film Artistic Research program of the Netherlands Film Academy. Her short films were screened during international and national film festivals Go Short ISFF, Sarajevo Film Festival, Vancouver IFF, Molodist IFF, ArtDocFest, Netherlands Film Festival, CineDOC-Tbilisi, VIS Vienna Shorts, Regensburg Short Film Week and many more.
Known for
The Diaper Cake
Creative Producer
Nice Ladies
Director
Good Boy
Director
Family Hour
Director
May 9th
Director
The Winter That Changed Us
Director
I Know You
Director
Fragile Memory
Screenplay
Self-Defense
Director
Icecream
Director
Filmography
- 2024Nice LadiesDirector
- 2023Three Windows on South WestDirector
- 2022Fragile MemoryScreenplay
- 2021The Diaper CakeCreative Producer
- 2021Good BoyDirector
- 2018Family HourDirector
- 2017ArdeaDirector
- 2015May 9thDirector
- 2014Self-DefenseDirector
- 2014I Know YouDirector
- 2014The Winter That Changed UsDirector
- 2012IcecreamDirector
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