Helena Maksyom

Ukraine

Helena Maksyom

director

Graduate with honors from The National Aviation University in Kyiv, master’s degree in Ecology and Environmental protection. Worked as a journalist, translator, writer, project manager, cinematographer and film director. My feature debut as a director (Everything Will Not Be Fine, 2020) premiered in competition at IDFA and won several international awards. I have also worked on several short documentaries for Goethe Institut Ukraine and the Friedrich Ebert Foundation.
Since the full scale Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, I have been volunteering near the front lines in Kyiv, Kharkiv and Chernihiv regions and since April 2022 I have been an active-duty member of the Ukrainian National Guard serving as a combat medic in the Donetsk, Luhansk and Kharkiv regions.
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