Young Ukrainian film director Tymofii BINIUKOV became a participant of the Aberdeen International Youth Festival, which took place on July 28 - August 5 in Aberdeen, Scotland, UK.
Arseniy Yatsenyuk Open Ukraine Foundation supported the artist and provided him a travel grant for a trip to Scotland.
«The festival I was invited to as a director and a head of the independent youth theater «Variant», was attended by about 900 people. During the week, dozens of platforms and locations from art hubs and theaters to churches and shops and simple platforms on the street or in the city park were used throughout the city. Our performance «Mauno» was held in the art hub in the city center, called«Lemon Tree». It is a modest kind of building, which has enough technological scene inside and a comfortable auditorium», - Tymofii shared.
According to him, during the trip he managed to visit numerous theatrical performances, master classes, musical concerts, etc., to take part in the workshop, to attend the musical circus show in the style of the Broadway musical based on the «Jungle Books» by R. Kipling of a youth troupe from Los -Angel, etc.
«When I flew the yellow-blue flag to the strains of the Ukrainian hymn, that was performed by a local choir at a very good level, I felt great honor that I represented at the international forum the culture of my nation, as well as the huge responsibility for the quality of my work and for my human quality and behavior. This festival is extremely important for young artists and for the prestige of the countries they represent because you have a wonderful opportunity to tell about your country to the whole world.
We have got a lot of new friends from Spain, Morocco, Scotland, Iceland, Australia, and we believe that Ukraine has been represented profitable and worthwhile» - the film director summarized.
Generally, artists from nearly twenty countries from all over the world have attended the festival: Australia, Great Britain, Brazil, Morocco, Netherlands, Holland, China, USA, South Africa, Jamaica, Czech Republic, Iceland, Spain, Italy, Ukraine.
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Tymofii BINIUKOV is a young Ukrainian film director. He is the director of the Design Theater «Variant» and film director of three performances: «451 gradus za Faryngeitom» (2014-2015), «Mauno» (2016), and «Vsadnik bez golovy» (2017). In 2016 he won the Grand Prix of the Interuniversity Art Journalism Contest in Kharkiv. He writes prose, poetry, and he is the author of a film screenplay.
His directing activity was approved in the reviews of the most respected critics of Ukraine such as O. Annichev, O. Vergelis, despite the fact that he is a young professional.
As a writer he is published in the periodicals of different countries, he is the initiator and the main organizer of the First All-Ukrainian Festival of Short Prose «Sychasna Ukrainska Proza » (SUP), that demonstrates the country's young talents, which produce high-quality, fundamentally new literature.
The 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.
