| Kateryna Gornostai | |
| Birth Date: | 15 March 1989 |
| Birth Place: | Lutsk, USSR (Ukraine) |
| Education: | Marina Razbezhkina and Mikhail Ugarov's School of Documentary Film and Theatre, |
| Alma Mater: | National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy |
| Years Active: | 2013–present |
Kateryna Gornostai (Ukrainian: Горностай Катерина Павлівна; born March 15, 1989) is a Ukrainian film director, screenwriter and film editor. She is a jury member of the film festival Wiz-Art since 2014 and a member of the Ukrainian Film Academy since 2017.[1]
Kateryna Gornostai was born in Lutsk, Volyn Oblast on March 15, 1989. She was the only child of psychotherapists Svetlana Vaskivska and Pavel Gornostay.
First, Kateryna studied biology (2010) and later Journalism (2012, MD) at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. Having graduated from the Marina Razbezhkina and Mikhail Ugarov's Documentary Film and Theatre in Moscow from October 2012 to November 2013, she returned home to Kyiv.[2]
Kateryna Gornostai started her career as a documentary filmmaker in 2012. She is currently working on educational documentaries as well as her own documentary and fiction film projects. Kateryna also teaches documentary filmmaking at Kyiv-Mohyla Academy's School of Journalism. She began to experiment with fiction films and hybrid forms. Her aesthetic and ability to convey life without artificiality have caught the attention of film critics.[3]
| 2011 | True News | Справжні новини | Documentary | Director, co-authored with Dmitro Krasny | |
| 2013 | Between Us | Між нами | Documentary, short film, course work | Director & cinematographer, co-author R. Bondarchuk, Y. Gontaruk, A. Kiselyov, A. Litvinenko, R. Lyubi, O. Solodunov, D. Stoykov, O. Techinsky, V. Tykhy | |
| 2014 | Euromaidan, Rough Cut | Євромайдан. Чорновий монтаж | Documentary | Director & cinematographer | |
| 2015 | Away | Віддалік | Fiction short film | Director & cinematographer | |
| 2015 | Maidan is Everywhere | Скрізь Майдан | Middle-length documentary | Director & cinematographer | |
| 2016 | Condensed milk | Згущьонка | Fiction short film | Director, co-authored with Dmitro Krasny | |
| 2017 | Lilac | Бузок | Fiction short film | Director & screenwriter | |
| 2018 | Crocodile | Крокодил | Fiction short film | Director & screenwriter | |
| 2021 | Stop-Zemlia | Стоп-Земля | Fiction feature film | Director & screenwriter |
| 2015 | Away | Best Ukrainian Film at 2015 | Wiz-Art Film Festival[4] | |
| Best Acting at 2015 | Odesa International Film Festival | |||
| Best Ukrainian Short at 2015 | Molodist International Film Festival[5] | |||
| 2015 | Maidan is Everywhere | Andriy Matrosov Award at 2015 | DocuDays UA[6] | |
| 2017 | Lilac | Special Jury Mention and the FIPRESCI Prize for Best Ukrainian Short Film at 2017 | Odesa International Film Festival[7] | |
| 2021 | Stop-Zemlia | "Crystal Bear" for the best feature film from the Youth Jury of the Generation 14plus competition | Berlin International Film Festival[8] | |
| Best Ukrainian Film at 2021; Best acting work and the Grand Prix | Odesa International Film Festival[9] | |||
| Best Feature Film, Opening of the Year, Best Director, Best Actress, and Best Screenplay | "Kinokolo"[10] |