Resume

 

lvanka-Kateryna  Yakovyna

ivanka-kate.com

ivanka.kate@gmail.com 

Key Skills

Cinematography, video edit, photography, VFX compositing, contemporary art.

Other skills

Brand positioning and storytelling, social media marketing, project management, Upwork freelancer and agency work, illustration, digital and hand sketching, Blackmagic Fusion, Adobe Creative Cloud, video editing, motion design, a basic understanding of C++, Side FX Houdini.

Languages

Ukrainian - native

English - fluent

Education / residences

July 2022 (ongoing)

Film Crew Academy (Patriot rental), Kyiv, Ukraine

Stabilizer systems training.

Steadicam, Segway, steadycar, rickshaw, steadycrane, etc.

Nov  - Dec 2021

Film Crew Academy (Patriot rental), Kyiv, Ukraine

Certificate for 2AC, Optics training.

It consisted of theory and practice training. We've discussed physics, lens elements, builds, history, and more. Also, we had a chance to hand-on test different iconic lens sets. Arri, Cooke, Zeiss.

Sep 2020 - Jun 2021

TFX Workshop by TerminalFX

Side Fx Houdini advanced course

Apr - Dec 2018

Fabrica communication research centre

Treviso, Italy. fabrica .it Filmmaker and artist

Took part in workshops and lectures by :

  • Oliviero Toscani, photographer, Italy
  • Jonathan de Villiers, fashion photographer
  • Bruce Sterling, American science fiction author
  • Michelle de Lucchi, italian architect
  • Erik Kessels, Dutch artist, designer and curator
  • Hermann Vaske, director, author, and producer
  • David Redmon, documentary filmmaker
  • Pamela Echeverria, Mexican gallerist
  • Julien Cantegreil, space activist
  • Dava Newman, professor at MIT

...and many more

Fall 2015

Participant of "School of Image and Evidence"

documentary video study

Kyiv Biennale - "The School of Kyiv"

Feb 2013 - Aug 2013

Kyiv-Air residence for young artists in Kyiv Organizers Kadygrob & Taylor art projects

(now Art Management)

2009 - 2013

National Academy of Art and Architecture

Faculty of Fine Arts

Area of study: Graphic Design Bachelor Degree

1998 - 2009

Klovsky Lyceum 77 of foreign languages

Wok experience

July - Sept 2021

Lighting and shading artist, SideFX Houdini.

POSTMODERN

Kyiv City, Ukraine

Lighting full 3d scenes and lighting 3d objects to match footage, 3d camera animation, scene layout.

2019-current

Upwork freelancer

  • Top rated
  • 100% job success

Video edit - documentary, interview, adverticement.
VFX - clean-ups, compositing.

2012 - current

Freelance filmmaker

  • Cinematography, directing, and post-producing shorts, commercial, corporate, music, and travel videos.
  • After 2020 -  mostly cinematography.

September 2020

BLUHENDE RANDSCHAFTEN

Production by LUNATIKS in co-production with the Brandenburger Theater and the Schlossplatztheater,

Kopenick Berlin

Filmmaker

Apr - Dec 2018

Fabrica communication research centre

Treviso, Italy. fabrica.it Filmmaker and artist

  • Motion design, video compositing and video editing.
  • Brands: United Colors Of Benetton, Undercolors, Fabrica.
  • In-store shop & retail shootings, events, show and photo studio backstage videos.
  • Social media video content edit on the go.

Sept 2017

Fabrica communication research center

Trial period and work for Fabrica and Benetton group.

June  - Sept 2017        

Sensorama (aka Verum Visum) sensoramalab.com/ 360/VR video VFX compositor

  • Stitch cleanups, visual effects and motion design.
  • Brands: Ministry for Home Affairs of Switzerland, Lexus, Toyota, McDonald's.

Aug 2016 - Apr 2017

Zeitgeist Design

Film and Motion design.

  • Shooting, directing and post-producing short commercial videos and public service ads.
  • Brands: Petro Poroshenko, Procter and Gamble Ukraine, Ukrainian Fashion Week, Justice Reform

Aug 2015 - July 2016

Coffeepost Postproduction Studio

VFX compositor

Clean-ups, compositing, motion design, the adaptation of videos for channels.

Brands: "Old Millers Tale" movie

Spring 2015        

"Platze. Dacher. Leute. Wege.",

Music Theater, Bielefeld

Cinematographer and editor of the feature documentary movie.

Music - Gordon Campe, director - Ivan Bozak, text - Katharina Ortmann

Dec 2014 - Jan 2015

"Old Podol Fairytales" festival

VJ

July 2014 - Oct 2014        

"Found in Ukraine" travel project

Filmmaker and photographer

Sept 2013 - Mar 2014        

Euromedia Company

Multimedia designer and VJ

  • Junior Eurovision Song Contest - 3d design, set design, and props production control
  • BoyUk Sehne TV show, Azerbaijan - VJ, motion design

Dec 2012 - Jan 2014

Pinchuk Art Centre

Guide

working languages - Ukrainian, English.

July - Aug 2012

National Ukrainian Channel "1 + 1" Internship (motion design)

2010-2015

freelance graphic designer

Exhibitions and projects

5 Oct - 25 Nov 2018

RECIPROCITY Design Liege, Belgium Group exhibition "Fabrica - Confessions", curated by Oliviero Toscani

11 - 14 Oct 2018

"Last Frame" group photo exhibition Festival del Saper Vivere, Venice, Italy FREE NUDE PHOTO SESSIONS

Personal project

24 - 29 July 2018

Fabrica's Wanted Creativity space in Venice

July 2019        

WAR CUP

Personal project.

Protest against the World Cup in Russia.

Nov 2016- Jan 2017

Short movie "CRAVE", dir. Carl Shanahan, London

15 July 2016 - 6 Nov

2016.

VFX composer

Sentsov camera exhibition,

Galerie fur Zetgenossische Kunst Leipzig.

Curator - Kateryna Mishchenko.

Fall 2014

Personal citizen journalism project

Photo/ video shooting in the area of war in eastern Ukraine

Sept 2014

Fundraiser "LIVE"

Live VJ'ing, using own video footage while poets read their poems. Ivan Malkovich, Malkovich and Roman Romaniuk

Cultural Educational Center "Master Class"

18 Dec 2014

Pop-up site specific personal project "Corporate"

June 2014

"Rebel ABC" book

Illustration "L. Maidan is love"

Authors - Polino Moroz, studio LLIWELL

http:/ / revoltabc.com .ua/

Oct-Nov 2013

Final exhibition residence Kyiv-Air,

Apr 2013

National Academy of Fine Arts group project N  *, Detenpyla Gallery, Lviv

14-24 Apr 2010

Exhibition 1 Mini Print International in Kyiv

National Union of Artists of Ukraine

Additional education and awards

Oct 2019

Professional advertising editing techniques workshop by Alexander Chorny

Mar - June 2013

Auditor at specialized closed lectures of "New Art School : media art for practitioners" by Cultural Project

Feb 2012

Course "video" at Victor Marushchenko School

Nov 2010

History of Photography

A series of lectures "History of Photography"

Victor Maruschenko school of photography and "Cultural project”

Apr 2010

Master class Elena Taranska "advertising campaign from A to Y"

2008-2010

Art Studio of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine

2005-2007

Debate Club Pandora

2005-2006

Winner of national Ukrainian school contests of computer graphic

1997-2007

Muzzy school, Kyiv

advanced English course