Serhii Bukovskyi

Serhii Bukovskyi (or Sergey Bukovsky) is a Soviet Ukrainian documentary film director and actor. Bukovskyi is a member of the Board of the Ukrainian Association of Cinematographers and laureate of the Shevchenko National Prize. He was awarded the honorary title of Merited Artist of Ukraine in 1996 and the title People's Artist of Ukraine in 2008. Representing the critical school of Ukrainian documentary filmmaking. Serhii Bukovskyi was born in Bashkortostan in 1960, to Film director Anatoliy Bukovskyi and actress Nina Antonova. His family moved to Kyiv later that year.From 1977 to 1982, Bukovskyi attended the Kyiv National I. K. Karpenko-Kary Theatre, Cinema and Television University, where he studied directing.For over a decade, Bukovskyi worked as a film director at the Ukrainian Documentary Film Studio.From 1995 to 1998, he was the head of the document project department at Interviews Ukraine.

From 1998 to 2003, Bukovskyi taught at Kyiv National I. K. Karpenko-Kary Theatre, Cinema and Television University, teaching courses in documentary directing. One of his students, Igor Strembitsky, would go on to win the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival.