Kateryna is a Ukraine-born, London-bred documentary filmmaker.
Fascinated by people and their relationships to places, her films centre on migration, community and the cross-pollination of cultures.
She was shortlisted for the Arts Foundation Future Award (2024) for short documentary film, and is a Papaya Young Directors finalist (2021). Her short film for Al Jazeera about a Ukrainian chess prodigy is longlisted for the One World Media award for refugee reporting (2024). Kateryna has directed commissioned films for women's NGOs including Latin American Women’s Aid, and her films have screened at festivals UK-wide and internationally including London Short Film Festival and Tampere, one of the largest short film festivals in Europe.
As a film programmer, she has curated screenings for the Barbican and the UK-based collective Films for Ukraine, and an online film season, Feast from the East, for the Independent Cinema Office. In 2023 she completed the Centre for Investigative Journalism's Lyra McKee scheme, and her writing has been published in HuffPost, The Vinyl Factory and Seville Film Festival.
