KCL Films for Ukraine 2023: Roundtable on Women, Cinema, & City in Ukraine

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In association with the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL and the Lithuanian Cultural Institute. Supported by the Lithuanian Embassy in London and KCL Arts and Humanities Faculty.

Roundtable on Women, Cinema, and the City in Ukraine and Eastern Europe.“

Through the Female Lens” is the subtitle for this years KCL Films for Ukraine screening series. With this closing roundtable, we open a space for reflection on gender in Ukraine and Eastern Europe in wartime. Each of our speakers will introduce their work as women filmmakers, scholars, and urban researchers in Ukraine and Eastern Europe, before we open up for general discussion.

Our Speakers: Dounia Sichov, editor of Mariupolis 2; architectural historian and filmmaker, Ievgeniia Gubkina; Giedrė Žickytė, producer of Irina Tsilyk’s The Earth Is as Blue as an Orange; Lina Kaminskaitė, Professor of Cinema Studies at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre (LMTA); and Uljana Kim, producer of Mariupolis and Mariupolis 2.

Biographies below

Dounia Sichov, editor of Mariupolis 2. Actor, producer and editor Sichov has appeared in films directed by Catherine Breillat, Mikhaël Hers, Denis Côté, and Abel Ferrara, and produced films by the latter two. She edited Mariupolis as well as Mariupolis 2. She is currently directing a documentary on transgender identity.

Ievgeniia Gubkina is an architectural historian and filmmaker, currently based in UCL’s Bartlett School of Architecture as a visiting researcher. Her work specialises in architecture and urban planning of the 20th century in Ukraine, and a multidisciplinary approach to heritage studies. She is the author of the books  Slavutych: Architectural Guide (2015) and Soviet Modernism. Brutalism. Post-Modernism. Buildings and Structures in Ukraine 1955–1991 (2019). In 2020–2021 she curated the Encyclopedia of Ukrainian Architecture, a multimedia online project that worked with architecture, history, criticism, cinema, and visual arts.

Giedrė Žickytė producer of Irina Tsilyk’s The Earth Is as Blue as an Orange, which won the Best Directing award at Sundance in 2020. It follows a woman and her children trying to survive in the Eastern Ukraine warzone, and her daughter’s determination to become a cinematographer. Trained at the European Film Academy, Žickytė established her company Moonmakers in 2014. Her own documentary, The Jump, traces the defection of a Lithuanian radio operator from a Soviet ship in 1970, and has won multiple awards.

Lina Kaminskaitė is Professor of Cinema Studies at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre (LMTA) and leading research project curator at Media Education and the Research Center Meno avilys. She investigates gender and film production relations, film exhibition and distribution practices in Lithuania and other Baltic countries. She initiated the first research on gender equality in the Lithuanian cinema industry. Her recent co-edited book is Women in Lithuanian cinema (Fokuse: moterys Lietuvos kine, together with Dr. Natalija Arlauskaitė).

Uljana Kim is the producer of Mariupolis and Mariupolis 2. Born in Kyrgyzstan, she studied at VGIK (The Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography) in Moscow, and set up Uljana Kim Studios in Vilnius, Lithuania, in 1997, which has produced numerous award-winning films.

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One of KCL Films for Ukraine’s key aims is to collect funds for charities. Donations for this event will be divided equally between ArmWomenNow and Blue/Yellow

ArmWomenNow is a social initiative providing women defenders of Ukraine with army uniforms by means of donations and funds gathered by charity auctions and lotteries.

For further information, see: https://armwomennow.com/en/

Based in Lithuania, Blue/Yellow is an NGO that has been supporting Ukraine’s armed resistance since 2014. They provide Ukrainian soldiers and volunteers with non-lethal supplies to help them battle Russian aggression.

For further information, see: https://blue-yellow.lt/en#about-us

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