DOCU/PRO People

Marta Smerechynska

Ukrainian Doc Preview Participant

Marta Smerechynska is a 22-year-old documentary filmmaker and actress. She studied at the National I. K. Karpenko-Kary Theatre, Cinema and TV University in Kyiv.

 

Marta participated in a group of documentary filmmakers on an international exchange grant-trip to the Polish-French film Academy Kinographe in Grenoble in France. Also, she has been exploring the actor component in human nature for eight years; she has acting experience in cinema and theatre. But the desire to observe and turn the observations into cinematic form took hold of Marta. For the second year running she has been making a movie about the female convent in Western Ukraine where her sister is a nun.