DOCU/PRO People

Nadia Parfan

DOCU/PRO Expert: MEET PROFESSIONALS

Areas of expertise: documentary filmmaking, distribution, promo-producing and film marketing.


Upon graduating from the Wajda School in Warsaw, she worked as a trainee at the National Film and Television School in London. Nadia is the co-founder and creative director of the 86 International Film Festival in Slavutych (2014–2018). Together with Illya Gladshtein, she founded the 86PROKAT distribution company and the Phalanstery film production company.

 

 Nadias first feature-length film Heat Singers (2019) was screened at Visions du Reel, Krakow FF, Odesa IFF, and other film festivals. It also received the Kinokolo Prize of the Film Critics Society of Ukraine as the best documentary film of 2019.

 

 In 2020, Nadia founded takflix.coma new online platform for legally viewing Ukrainian films.