Artem Ryzhykov was the winner of the International Documentary Association's Best Cinematography - 2015 award for his work on The Russian Woodpecker. The film won the 2015 Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival and nominated for an Independent Spirit Award. Also won Grand Jury at ZagrebDox, Biografilm Festival, Montclair Film Festival, and Tirana International Film Festival. He graduated in 2010 from the Kiev University for Theatre, Film and Television, and was legendary Soviet cinematographer Vadim Vereshchak’s last student and studied for several years under Bogdan Verzhbitsky. His short film, Hindrance, was a semi-finalist in YouTube’s Your Film Festival and was presented at the Cannes Short Film Corner as a selection from Ukraine.
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