Mykyta Kravchenko

Mykyta Kravchenko is a Ukrainian filmmaker, photographer and artist. He was born in Donetsk, Ukraine in 2004. In the summer of 2014, when he was ten, due to the military invasion of Russian occupation forces to Donetsk, he and his family were forced to move to Kyiv, where he entered a secondary school. In 2018, he spent a year of acting courses at the Kyiv theater studio «11», where he encountered a professional approach to acting for the first time. In 2019, he entered the College of the Kyiv Film and New Media Academy, majoring in Audiovisual Arts and Production. There, he has created some student works including the short film project "No Nest" which production was canceled in terms of lack of professional help. On the February 24 of 2022, due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, he was forced to flee to the west with the family again. In March 2022 he went to Prague, Czech Republic. There, he worked as a photographer in such institutions as Goethe Institut Prague, National pedagogical institute of the Czech Republic and others. he also did professional videography on different events and even got some experience in VFX, working at Dazzle Pictures post-production studio. After the USA Government came out with U4U program (United For Ukraine) in April 2022, Mykyta Kravchenko have applied for it. Since May 2022, Kravchenko lives in the suburbs close to Washington DC.