Arseniy Yatsenyuk Open Ukraine Foundation within the program «Travel grants for artists» provided a grant for a trip to the Cannes Film Festival to Ukrainian film director Antonio Lukich.
As a member of the program Short Corner, Antonio had the right to visit all shows, including «Critics Week», competitive shows, student program. As a film director who is preparing to shoot his debut film, Antonio Lukich says, his main task was to present his thesis film on the market and find those useful contacts, which can help with the debut.
In the result of the trip to the festival, Ukrainian managed to contact with six selectors of international film festivals, exchange visiting cards with Dutch producer, give the disk to British distributor of short films and even present the bunch of flowers to the program coordinator of debut film festival in Thessaloniki.
«Cannes Film Market expanded my understanding of what does professional activity mean on the international level, raised the level of my ambitions in terms of creating the film, confirmed the opinion that the most valuable in the work is not a talent, but the professionalism. But the most important that it gave me, the Ukrainian film director, in recent time student, is the opportunity to understand one simple thing that nothing is impossible in our life, and we should set the most ambitious goals and believe that we are able to achieve them» - Antonio Lukich shared.
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The Arseniy Yatsenyuk Open Ukraine Foundation provides travel grants for travel costs for Ukrainian 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.
