Serhii Masloboishchykov

Serhii Volodymyrovych Masloboychikov is a Ukrainian film director, theater director, playwright, screenwriter, set designer, and graphic artist. He is an Honored Artist of Ukraine (2019). Academician, full member of the National Academy of Arts of Ukraine, Scientific Secretary of the Film Arts Department of the National Academy of Arts of Ukraine, Laureate of the Taras Shevchenko National Prize of Ukraine (2021, for the play "Verba" based on Lesya Ukrainka's fairy-tale drama "The Forest Song")....

Serhii Volodymyrovych Masloboychikov is a Ukrainian film director, theater director, playwright, screenwriter, set designer, and graphic artist. He is an Honored Artist of Ukraine (2019). Academician, full member of the National Academy of Arts of Ukraine, Scientific Secretary of the Film Arts Department of the National Academy of Arts of Ukraine, Laureate of the Taras Shevchenko National Prize of Ukraine (2021, for the play "Verba" based on Lesya Ukrainka's fairy-tale drama "The Forest Song"). Associate Professor at the National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture, Member of the Unions of Artists, Theater Workers, and Cinematographers of Ukraine. He graduated from the National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture in Kyiv, Faculty of Graphics (1981), and the Higher Courses for Screenwriters and Directors of the USSR State Film Committee, Faculty of Feature Film Directing (1989). He began his professional career in Kyiv. In 1981–83, he was a production designer at the Kyiv Variety Theater. In 1984–87, he was the chief artist of the Kyiv Young Theater. Since 1990, he has been working as a director and production designer at the Dovzhenko Film Studio in Kyiv. In 2016, he became a lecturer at the Department of Scenography at the National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture. Since the 1990s, he has directed a number of feature and documentary films that have enjoyed success at festivals. In 1995, he was the first Ukrainian director to appear in competition at International Film Festival Rotterdam.