Anna Palenchuk
Anna Palenchuk (b. 1983)
Ukrainian film producer, scriptwriter, and director who founded production companies including 435 FILMS and Be Brave Films. Her extensive portfolio features critically acclaimed international co-productions and collaborations with renowned auteurs such as Oleg Sentsov and Vitaliy Manskiy, alongside serving as a Ukrainian line producer for the Oscar-winning film RRR.
Recipient of the First Step Berlin award. She has produced fiction and documentary films by directors such as Mantas Kvedaravičius, Akhtem Seitablaev, Maciek Hamela, Kornii Hrytsiuk, and Tonya Noyabrova. Her productions have been showcased at festivals including the Berlinale, Cannes, Hot Docs, TIFF, Sheffield DocFest, PÖFF, IDFA, KVIFF, OIFF, and Millennium Docs Against Gravity. She is a member of the Ukrainian Film Academy.
She currently resides in Toronto, Canada, where she fosters the Ukrainian-Canadian film community and works on Ukrainian film projects.
Biographical record
- Year of birth
- 1983
- Place of birth
- Kyiv, Ukraine
- Key enterprises
- 435 Films, Be Brave Films
Filmography
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EuroKryvbas
2026 · 71 min · DocumentaryThe documentary film "EuroKryvbas" updates Soviet myths and reveals that more than a century ago, the Dnipro region was an integral part of the European economy.
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Eurodonbas
2021 · 73 min · DocumentaryThe documentary Eurodonbas uncovers the region's forgotten 19th-century European legacy—built by international entrepreneurs and later erased by the Soviet Union — just before many of these historical sites were destroyed in the Russo-Ukrainian War.
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