Roman Bondarchuk

Personal Info

Known For Director

Gender Male

Also Known As Роман Бондарчук

Roman Bondarchuk

Biography

Roman Bondarchuk is a Ukrainian director. A graduate of Kyiv National University of Theater, Cinema, and Television, Roman has directed short films, documentaries, music videos and the feature film Volcano (2018), which premiered at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, screened at more than 50 festivals worldwide, and won 12 awards, including the Shevchenko National Prize, the highest state prize of Ukraine for works of culture and the arts. Roman’s feature-length documentary Ukrainian Sheriffs won the Special Jury Prize at International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) in 2015, Grand Prix of the IDFF Docs against Gravity, and was selected as the Ukrainian submission to the Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film. His second documentary, Dixie Land (2016), premiered at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival in the USA and received a Golden Duke Award for Best Ukrainian Film at the Odesa International Film Festival. Roman also works as an art director of the Docudays UA International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival and has been a member of the selection committee for the Ukrainian submissions to the Academy Awards since 2019. Since 2022, he is a co-founder of the Ukraine War Archiveproject, an initiative of the NGO Docudays and Infoscope.

Known For

Director

2024
2021
2020
Wasteland Tour

as Director

2018
Volcano

as Director

2016
Ukrainian Sheriffs

as Director

2014
2014
Kafe Voyazh

as Director

2013
Roma Dream

as Director

2011
15 Young by Young

as Director

2011
Ukraine, Goodbye!

as Director

2009
MMS

as Director

2009
2007
Taxi-driver

as Director

2005

Producer

2016
Myr

as Producer

2016
White Collar Unit

as Producer

2016
Ukrainian Language

as Producer

2016
2016
Bloggers

as Producer

2016
Automaidan

as Producer

2016
Euromaidan SOS

as Producer

2016
Self-Defense

as Producer

2016
Crimea SOS

as Producer

2016
Lustration

as Producer

2014

Camera

2016
White Collar Unit

as Camera Operator

2016
Ukrainian Language

as Camera Operator

2016
Automaidan

as Camera Operator

2016
Self-Defense

as Camera Operator

2016
Euromaidan SOS

as Camera Operator

2016
Lustration

as Camera Operator

2016
Ukrainian Sheriffs

as Director of Photography

2015
Dixieland: Little Kids Big Dreams

as Director of Photography

Editor

2023
Witnesses

as Editor

2016
2014

Writer

2024
The Editorial Office

as Screenplay

2018
Volcano

as Co-Writer

2005