Anastasiia Puhach – Associate producer

Anastasiia (Tasia) Puhach

Emerging Film producer, PR specialist, press secretary of many  Film events, program coordinator

EDUCATION

  • From 2003 to 2008, Donetsk National University
    Masters degree in International Relations (diploma with honors). Before her masters degree, she also received her bachelors degree with honors in 2007.
  • 2019, School of Fast Drama
    Post play theater (class of Anastasiia Kosodii and Maksim Kurochkin)
  • Eurodoc-2024 (as a part of the Ukrainian cohort)

WORKING EXPERIENCE

2023- till now

UP UA STUDIO

Executive director, executive producer of UP UA STUDIO.

Executive producer of UP UA STUDIO & GOGOL FILM documentary Divia by Dmytro Hreshko. Searching for potential partners, distributors, broadcasters, Impact producers for the film, representation of the film on Pitchings, and participation in co-production markets where you are searching for partners (in post-production).

Executive producer of the project «Antarctica: War Diaries» (in post-production)

and Executive producer of the project «Woman of Ukraine» (in Development).

Visited workshops and film markets for documentary Filmmakers:

  • Beldocs Pitching Forum 2023; 
  • The Baltic Sea Docs 2023; 
  • Sunny Side of the Doc in Nature & Conservation section 2023; 
  • CEDOC Market 2023; 
  • CUTTING EDGE PITCHING; Documentary Industry Days of Odesa IFF in Gdynia, Poland 2023. 
  • Winter Film Market OIFF 2024
  • EFM 2024
  • Eurodoc 2024 (as a part of the Ukrainian cohort)   

DOBRANICHFILM

Producer of the documentary film «Attention: Children». Expected arrival date — August 2024. The film shows the impact of war on children.

In 2023 became a part of the National Ukrainian Jury of the OKKO Film Festival in Sofia, Bulgaria

2023 – till now

Head of Press Service of Molodist Kyiv International Film Festival

August -till now

Ukrainian PR agent for the film Forever-Forever by Anna Burachkova, which premiered at Venice Film Festival.

April 

Organizer of Ukraine Known Unknown – a project of Ukrainian Film Festival Berlin, sponsored by Vidnova

January-March

Executive producer of the big event of the opening of Ukrainian Institute in Berlin (exclusively created performance, exhibition, and live concert)

We Will Not Fade Away

Ukrainian Media agent for the documentary film We Will Not Fade Away by Alisa Kovalenko. I organised the promo campaign in Ukrainian Media for the film before its World premiere at Berlinale International Film Festival in February 2023.

2022

Ukrainian Film Festival Berlin

With the festival, I worked with its social media, PR, and program compilatio. Also, I implemented the project Ukraine Known Unknown, supported by the Vidnova program as  Vidnova Fellowship alumni.

Mykolaychuk Audience Film Festival

June 2022 – till now

Head of PR

2021

Organizer and PR-manager of the film premiere supported by UNFPA

Organised the premiere and provided PR services for the film Break the Circle by Elizaveta Smith supported by UNFPA. The premiere took place in Autumn 2021 with the participation of the First Lady of Ukraine Olena Zelenska.

PR and Media of films in Ukrainian cinemas

PR agent for films released in Ukrainian cinemas by 86PROKAT distribution company, films: As Far As Possible, Blindfold.

PR manager for the Film  Industry Association of Ukraine

SMM for the association, PR, Press releases, and mailing.

2021-2020

Kinovernissage. Open-air cinema in Kyiv

Two-mont open-air cinema of Ukrainian films, provided by UP UA STUDIO, supported by the Ukrainian State Film Agency. PR & Programme Director.

PR-director of Dobranich Film projects

Children’s TV series Red Backpacks and Documentary film and inclusive methods for autistic children «Starts on Earth».

2020, PR-manager for Geneva Call project

SMM, Articles writing for Geneva Call project dedicated to the War on Donbas.

From 2018 to 2021, Kharkiv MeetDocs International Film Festival 

I started at 2018 there as the Public Relations Coordinator of the Kharkiv MeetDocs International Film Festival in Kharkiv. Since 2020, I have been a member of the organizing committee of the film festival. My responsibilities include communicating with the national and international press, supervising the work of the media coordinator, SMM specialist, film presenters, and volunteers, and having partial interaction with the Kharkiv media. They also include communication with directors and distributors, invitations to the festival and, planning the festival events, etc. 

From 2017 to 2020, Molodist Kyiv International Film Festival 

Head of Press Service of the film festival

From September 12, 2017 to February 2020, I held the position of Head of Press Service in the team of Molodist Kyiv International Film Festival. I organized the leading program press conference before the festival, press conferences during the festival and personal interviews for journalists to write articles and shoot TV stories. Also, I maintained the festivals Facebook page and the Molodist official website, selected media partners for the event, monitored the execution of agreements with partners etc. Also, I did the festival mailnig of news letter.

From 2015 to 2019, the Theatre of Displaced People

From 2015 to 2017 – the press secretary of the theater From 2017 to 2019 – co-director of the theater.

When the theater opened, I started as its press secretary. Then, I did my projects as a curator and developed a PR strategy for the theater. All the key publications wrote about us. The plots were broadcasted on all the central channels of the country. They also wrote and spoke about us in foreign editions and showed stories on TV channels, including BBC Ukraine, Euronews and DW (the video was in German, specifically for German viewers). Krytyka Polityczna, etc.

From 2016 to 2018, the Class Act: East-West Project

Press secretary of the Class Act: East-West project

Was a social theater project of the leading Ukrainian playwright Natalya Vorozhbyt. The idea is that children from the west of the country and frontline towns in Donbas write plays together, and then they are staged by professionals. The project was supported by the Ministry of Culture of Ukraine, the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine and Volodymyr Borodianskyi as a patron.

From 2010 to 2017, Donbas TV Channel (Donetsk)

From 2005 to 2009, Ukraine TV Channel (Donetsk)

During more than ten years on television, I have worked in various fields, in the production of programs as a scriptwriter in the musicals, morning and childrens programs as a correspondent and then as a news editor. While working in Donetsk, I witnessed all the turbulent events of 2014. As a correspondent, I covered rallies and reported on seized buildings and the border with Russia.

Skills:

  • executive producer, manager, organazer
  • Excellent skills in writing (Ukrainian, English)
  • PR specialist (providing PR strategies)
  • 10-years experience in journalism, interviews, and writing articles
  • Mailing
  • Work with MailChimp, Squarespace, WordPress
  • SMM skills (Facebook, Instagram)
  • Cultural manager skills (organized many cultural events)

Additional:

  • Applied for different grants in culture field, won and implemented them, wrote many grant projects partly or wholly by myself
  • Playwriting experience (4 years experience of playwriting for Ukrainian theatres, my plays were among the finalists of Ukrainian drama competitions and festival, last year my text was published in January 2023 at the L’arbre-a-Palabres anthologies of current writing in Dutch and French, https://larbre-a-palabres.fr/