21-24 November 2016 regular co-productive forum the Baltic Event, which is the largest international cultural platform in Northern and Central Europe within the annual International Film Festival of Group A «Black Nights» of Tallinn was held. With the support of Arseniy Yatsenyuk Open Ukraine Foundation producer, director, and screenwriter Olena Fetisova made a professional tour to this leading event in the sphere of a film industry.
«I am very pleased with the results of the trip, because my participation in special events, roundtables, and events that were organized within the Baltic Event, gave me the opportunity to present a wide range of world-class international experts - critics, producers, representatives of film festivals, distributors, TV channels a new feature film project «Ether» - Olena Fetisova said.
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Olena Fetisova is a Ukrainian producer, director, and screenwriter, member of the European Film Academy, a member of the National Union of Cinematographers of Ukraine, winner of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine award named after Lesya Ukrainka and the winner of the Armenian State Prize in the sphere of arts. Olena Fetisova`s films received international recognition. Specifically film «Paradjanov» receive many international awards of film festivals and was nominated from Ukraine for the award «Oscar» of American Cinema Academy. Now Olena, as a producer, realizes a large international project of the film by director Krzysztof Zanussi «Ether», in co-production of five countries - Ukraine, Poland, Lithuania, Italy, and Hungary.
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.
