The «Open Ukraine» Foundation in the framework of Program «Travel grants for artists» provides with support a film director for the participation in the international festival.
19-21 December 2015 Ukrainian Julia Vrotna took part in the festival of video poetry International Film Poetry Festival in Athens as a screenwriter and a film director and presented there her video work «Kiss poppies instead of you». It is a video poetry on the poem by Irina Ponomariova.
As Julia said, the Festival is international and intended to promote the development of cultural communication between nations and develop video poetry as a genre.
Julia took part in the night of live poetry and read there her own poems in English. She told about the festival of video poetry CYCLOP, that held in Kiev, and many of the participants expressed interest to participate and come to Ukraine with their video works. The festival combines not only video poetry and live poetry from around the world, but also musical performances (participant from Canada), one-man performances (Greeks) and performances (participants from Italia and Greece). The atmosphere of young people true interest in the art was presented from the beginning to the end.
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The «Open Ukraine» Foundation provides travel grants for travel costs for artists to exchange artistic experience at the international level and to improve cooperation between Ukrainian and foreign artists. These grants give Ukrainian artists the opportunity to present their achievements around the world.
