Grantees

The projects listed below have been supported by Documenting Ukraine. This is not a complete list; other grantees have opted not to publish information about their projects, and new projects are being added to the site on an ongoing basis.

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Searching for Pokémon: Documentary Film	Mikhail Volkov
Following photographer Alexander Chekmenev’s search for a girl he photographed two decades ago to give her a promised print and to hear her story
A Collection of Testimonies from Ukrainian Teachers	Nadia Ufimtseva
Collecting testimonies from Ukrainian teachers – often persecuted as ‘agents of influence’ – in particular alumni of the Center for Holocaust Studies
Justice Initiative Fund	Stanislav Aseyev
Creating a memorial site to preserve the facts of Russian atrocities in the national memory of Ukraine
Kharkiv - My Favorite City	Yevhenii Telukha
Preserving the memories of Kharkiv’s citizens by charting their favourite places on an interactive digital map
Diaries of War: Documenting Life Experiences in Spring 2022	Bohdan Shumylovych
Using methodologies of lived experience and embodiment, this project documents experiences of war through creative collaboration and social analysis.
The Past Unsimple	Sashko Protyah
A hybrid documentary project tracing elusive and eloquent memory narratives in the setting of the Ukrainian periphery
Testimonies from the Fortunoff Archive	Maryna Poliakova
Working with the Fortunoff Video Archive to make testimonies by Russian and Ukrainian speakers more accessible through editing and transcription.
TsDAGO’s Archival Collection on the Russian-Ukrainian War	Olga Bazhan
Using novel methods to create a new, digitized and accessible archival collection of documents devoted to the current Russo-Ukrainian war
Those Behind Me	Iryna Tsilyk
An intimate and poetic documentary essay about generational trauma reflecting Ukraine’s past, present, and future.