Volodymyr Myslavskyi

Corresponding Member of the NAA of Ukraine

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Volodymyr Myslavskyi

    born in 1960

Film Expert, Film Historian

    Corresponding Member of the NAA of Ukraine (2021)

    PhD in Art History (2019)

Volodymyr Myslavskyi is the author of 50 monographs and over 150 articles on cinema, published in periodicals across Ukraine, Poland, the Czech Republic, Germany, France, and Slovakia. His extensive research has explored the lives and contributions of pioneers of Ukrainian cinema, including Yosyp Tymchenko, Alfred Fedetskyi, and Dmytro Kharytonov, each of whom is the subject of dedicated monographs. His work "Oleksandr Dovzhenko: Lesser-Known Pages" compiles previously undiscovered aspects of the renowned director’s creative journey.

Myslavskyi’s major studies include the four-volume "Factographic History of Cinema in Ukraine. 1896–1930" and the two-volume "History of Ukrainian Cinema. 1896–1930: Facts and Documents." His monograph "Entertaining Cinematology" (2020), commissioned by the German academic publishing house Lambert, has been translated into eight languages.

Myslavskyi V.N. has been a member of the National Union of Cinematographers of Ukraine since 2005, a member of the Expert Council for the Honour of the Profession professional journalism competition (2010), and an academician of the Ukrainian Film Academy (2017). He is currently affiliated with the Kharkiv State Academy of Culture.

He was awarded the Kinovedcheskie Zapiski journal prize for his VGIK diploma work (1992) and received a certificate of recognition from the National Union of Cinematographers of Ukraine and the Association of Cinema Education Professionals of Ukraine in 1997 for his excellence in promoting Ukrainian cinema and his active contribution to film education through television and print media.

Myslavskyi has served as a jury member at multiple international film festivals and has been accredited as a film scholar at prestigious events, including Le Giornate del Cinema Muto (1994, 1997), Festival international du film de Cannes (1997, 1998, 1999), Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin (1998, 1999), Teddy Award (1999), Far East Film Festival (2001), and Le Cinema Français (2001, 2002, 2003).