Ostap Kostyuk

Ostap Kostyuk (b. 1979, Kolomyia, Ukraine) graduated from Ivan Franko National University of Lviv with a degree in history and went on to study performance at the Les Kurbas Academic Theater, where he has worked as an actor since 1998. He has also had acting engagements at Maisternia Pisni Arts Centre, Wrocław's Jerzy Grotowski Institute, and LaMaMa theater in New York. He headed up several successful music projects (e.g. BAI: Hutsul Mystery, Banda Arkan, Tatosh Banda, Hych Orchestr) and he curates music at the Dzyga cultural center in Lviv. In 2011 he attended the Dragon Forum International Academy of Documentary Arts in Warsaw. His first short film Manu et le chou (Manu i kapusta, 2011), directed with Oleksandr Pozdnyakov, was awarded by France's RADi (Agence du Court Métrage). The Living Fire is his feature debut.

50. MFF Karlovy Vary