Maria Keil

Graduated from T. Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Journalism Department. Maria started her career in 2002, working for a musical TV channel "O-TV". In 2006, Maria was invited to work for the first conceptual TV channel "Menu-TV", where she was a line producer. Afterwards, she took up the post of the main director of Ukraine musical TV channel "Star TV". At the end of 2008 Maria is a head of the production company "MMG TV & Films", which aims to produce films, advertisements and musical video clips. Aged 24, she films her first movie "The Rejection" by Vladimir Lert. In 2010, Maria and her partner open a company "435 FILMS", which specializes in creation of co-products. The company produces the first official co-produced film in Ukraine "Eastalgia". The company manages the development of film projects and film distribution on the territory of Ukraine. At the beginning of 2012, Maria was elected an executive director of the "Ukrainian Motion Picture Association" where she has worked for a year. By the end of 2013, she founded her own production company "BIG HAND FILMS". Currently Maria is the producer in "BIG HAND FILMS" company.