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Biography
Denys Kushnarov(ukr. Денис Кушнарьов) is a Ukrainian filmmaker, journalist and actor. He was born in Donetsk region of Ukraine.
Earlyl life
Kushnarov raduated from lyceum “Erudite” with golden medal (specialization: Liberal Arts). He University with a specialization in translation (German, English). He moved to Kyiv, won a quiz show, which helped him to graduate from TV school.
Career
He worked as a freelance journalist for travel magazines, Welcome to Ukraine and International Tourism He then started to work at the top Ukrainian TV channels as journalist and screenwriter. Kushnarov is the author of special TV-reports from the Cannes Film Festival in 2016 and 2017 for the TV-Channel INTER
In 2015 he started to work as a film director. His documentary Rocketman was awarded best Ukrainian short 2015 by the National Filmmakers’ Union of Ukraine.
His short film Make Music, Not War was shortlisted at multiple film festivals: Szczecin European Film Festival (Poland), Show Me Justice Film Festival (USA), 39th Elche International Independent Film Festival. Kushnarov`s short film There is a Place was awarded at the Short Cut Film Festival (Serbia) and at the 7th International Green Culture Festival (Serbia) and shortlisted 29th Girona Film Festival (Spain)