Nadia Parfan
{{short description|Ukrainian film director (born 1986)}}
{{use dmy dates|date=March 2024}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Nadia Parfan
| native_name = {{nobold|Надія Парфан}}
| native_name_lang = uk
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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1986|09|06|df=yes}}
| birth_place = Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
| occupation = Anthropologist, film director and creative producer
| organization = Co-founder of 86 film festival and founder of Takflix media platform
| alma_mater = {{ubil|National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy (BA; MA)|Central European University|Temple University}}
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Nadia Yaroslavivna Parfan ({{langx|uk|Надія Ярославівна Парфан}}; born 6 September 1986) is a Ukrainian anthropologist, film director and creative producer who is the co-founder of the 86 film festival,{{Cite web |title=Nadia Parfan {{!}} Producer, Director, Writer |url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm8569035/ |access-date=2024-03-08 |website=IMDb |language=en-US}}{{unreliable source|certain=yes|reason=WP:IMDB|date=March 2024}} and a member of the Ukrainian Film Academy.{{Cite web |last=s.r.o |first=Appio Digital |title=Nadia Parfan {{!}} DOKweb |url=https://dokweb.net/database/persons/biography/965f1ef7-497a-45ce-b9d5-7064ad87ad56/nadia-parfan |access-date=2024-03-08 |website=dokweb.net |language=en}}
Early life and education
Born on 6 September 1986, in the Ukrainian city of Ivano-Frankivsk.{{Cite web |date=2017-04-16 |title=НОВОСІЛЛЯ |url=http://www.86.org.ua/housewarming/ |access-date=2024-03-08 |website=86PROKAT. Незалежний кінодистриб'ютор}}{{unreliable source|certain=yes|reason=WP:IMDB|date=March 2024}} She received degrees from Central European University in social anthropology and Kyiv's National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy in cultural studies (B.A. in 2007;{{Cite web |title=Факультет гуманітарних наук |url=https://alumni.ukma.edu.ua/2007.html |access-date=2024-03-08 |website=alumni.ukma.edu.ua}} M.A. in 2009{{Cite web |title=Факультет гуманітарних наук |url=https://alumni.ukma.edu.ua/a2009.html |access-date=2024-03-08 |website=alumni.ukma.edu.ua}}). She was a Fulbright visiting fellow at Philadelphia's Temple University in 2012–2013. She completed a DOK PRO documentary film directing course at the Andrzej Wajda Film School in Warsaw in 2015,{{unreliable source|certain=yes|reason=WP:IMDB|date=March 2024}} having been awarded a Gaude Polonia stipend.
Later, as part of the Culture Bridges international mobility award, Nadia enrolled at the National Film and Television School (NFTS) in Beaconsfield and started an internship at the Nowness platform in London. There, she was recommended to take a quick course called Directing the Documentary, which covered the kind of BBC-style documentary that piqued my curiosity.{{Cite web |title=Nadia Parfan: 'We're not good at efficiently budgeting the work' |url=https://www.britishcouncil.org.ua/en/nadia-parfan-were-not-good-efficiently-budgeting-work |access-date=2024-03-08 |website=www.britishcouncil.org.ua}}
Career
Nadia served as the assistant director to Jonathon Narducci on the Love Me documentary produced by Powershot Production in Los Angeles. Beginning in 2014, she transitioned to creating her own films, taking on roles as a writer and director.{{unreliable source|certain=yes|reason=WP:IMDB|date=March 2024}}{{Cite web |title=Nadia Parfan |url=https://www.deutsche-filmakademie.de/?post_type=externals&p=18332 |access-date=2024-03-08 |website=Deutsche Filmakademie |language=de-DE}} Her student film, Reve ta Stohne on Tour (2016), earned special recognition at DocuDays UA IHRFF and was officially selected for the Warsaw International Film Festival. Her debut feature, Heat Singers (2019), premiered in the international competition at Visions du Réel. The film garnered accolades, including the Best Documentary Film award from the Ukrainian Film Academy in 2019 and recognition as the best documentary by the Ukrainian Film Critics Association.{{Cite web |title=Nadia Parfan {{!}} MIDPOINT Institute |url=https://www.midpoint-institute.eu/en/person/nadia-1mHSDI |access-date=2024-03-08 |website=www.midpoint-institute.eu |language=en}}
In 2023, Nadia would go on to direct the film That is my sea, with Illia Gladshtein as the producer.{{Cite web |title=Nadia Parfan |url=https://docudays.ua//eng/catalogue/persons/203/ |access-date=2024-03-08 |website=docudays.ua |language=en}} That same year in March, she pays tribute to the works of Claude LeLouch by lensing modern-day Kyiv in the same manner, at a dizzying pace while a vehicle speeds through its streets.{{Cite web |date=2023-02-27 |title=Фільм про воєнний Київ отримав нагороду на Берлінале |url=https://life.liga.net/rozvagy/news/film-o-voennom-kieve-poluchil-nagradu-na-berlinale |access-date=2024-03-08 |website=LIGA |language=uk}} It's A Date, a short film she made. The film was a Takflix creation that was chosen for the 2023 Berlinale{{Cite web |last=Shorts |first=Berlinale |date=2023-02-21 |title=Nadia Parfan on "It's a Date"/ interview |url=https://shortsblog.berlinale.de/2023/02/21/nadia-parfan-on-its-a-date-interview/ |access-date=2024-03-08 |website=Berlinale Shorts |language=de-DE}} and earned a Special Mention from the International Short Film Jury, captures the sense of contemporary conflict and the loss of normalcy through visuals displayed on a global scale during Russia's invasion of Ukraine.{{Cite web |date=2023-03-22 |title=It's A Date |url=https://www.nowness.com/story/%7B%7B%20$root.location.protocol()%20+%20'://'%20+%20$root.location.host()%20+%20$root.location.path()%20%7D%7D |access-date=2024-03-08 |website=www.nowness.com}} The New Yorker website released the short video "I didn't want to make a film about war" in 2023.{{Cite web |last=Горлач |first=Поліна |date=2023-01-26 |title=Видання The New Yorker опублікувало документальний фільм про війну режисерки Надії Парфан |url=https://suspilne.media/culture/366882-vidanna-the-new-yorker-opublikuvalo-dokumentalnij-film-pro-vijnu-reziserki-nadii-parfan/ |access-date=2024-03-08 |website=suspilne.media |language=uk}}
Other works
The 86 International Festival of Film and Urbanism in Slavutych, Ukraine, which she co-founded and curates, runs from 2014 to 2019.{{Cite web |date=2016-04-07 |title=Надія Парфан |url=http://www.86.org.ua/nadia-parfan-msf/ |access-date=2024-03-08 |website=86PROKAT. Незалежний кінодистриб'ютор}}{{Cite web |title=Yandex |url=https://www.kinopoisk.ru/showcaptcha?cc=1&mt=D0CA5756FB85E45E2EEEF663A5A9AEE19E87D08204C6D2A625A694393C59FAA4D25513B76F883E2EE5D861D0605C302359D2AE0402EEBFC99E54B48926BF4959CEF614C0AB65AA3CD710177D8B5275A7A6E22F75F6F3E9704D61F22B7E9C9EC75D78DFA98FAAB9B616C9E93224E5006FF0DF1C357DB0C5DE8D78C6C0D3E6BB5521F55BDC6CCC1CEFFAE4AA6360CE0B95410B07898590862B64EDE46AFA0C7FD5FECC7B45124610737A45C9F60D5DEB5B859C1C0C26AF43B284752CC0D8AB04C5C1B722D31FD00D18C30197FCA716E0F51D010E0A87FB0ACA86EFE26C626162AFABD1A2D658EB84E6DBCAD4&retpath=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cua2lub3BvaXNrLnJ1L25hbWUvNDUyOTE4MT8%2C_2fe2848d00e3bf5f4def339363a00066&t=2/1709884886/629fa4b42a8365d1524efd6a9dc092c6&u=ef74957f-12d33194-f4200f70-953015b8&s=b0ffbe629b7250511cd4b9b0ef8cbca5 |access-date=2024-03-08 |website=www.kinopoisk.ru}} She launched Takflix.com, an online theater for Ukrainian films, in 2019, and the documentary distribution company 86PROKAT.{{Cite web |title=86prokat-team Archives |url=http://www.86.org.ua/category/86prokat-team/ |access-date=2024-03-08 |website=86PROKAT. Незалежний кінодистриб'ютор}}
Personal life
Nadia and her husband, Ilya Gladshtein, had resided in Kyiv before to the invasion of that country, although they usually spent the winters in Dahab, to avoid the city's gloomy and frigid months. It was there in February of last year that they witnessed Russian forces overrunning their nation. She made the decision the next morning to return to Ukraine and record her flight and return. She went alone, first to Austria, then to the Czech Republic, then to Poland and the border, after she and Ilya decided she would go and he would stay.{{Cite magazine |last=Oztaskin |first=Murat |date=2023-01-25 |title=A Filmmaker's Journey to the Heart of War in Ukraine |url=https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-documentary/a-filmmakers-journey-to-the-heart-of-war-in-ukraine |access-date=2024-03-08 |magazine=The New Yorker |language=en-US |issn=0028-792X}}
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Category:People from Ivano-Frankivsk
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