Kamianets-Podilskyi International Film Festival "BRUKIVKA"

BRUKIVKA International Film Festival is an independent Ukrainian festival of contemporary Ukrainian and international cinema, which takes place annually in Kamyanets-Podilsky since 2017. The event began as a local project to support young creators from Podillya, and over 3 years, it became one of the largest film festivals in Western Ukraine, which over was sent to over 4,000 works from 122 countries of the world from 2018 to 2019.

The festival is non-profit, and all interested persons can visit the shows of competitive and non-competitive programs, workshops, lectures, meetings with directors, producers, screenwriters and actors of Ukrainian cinema free of charge.
Within 5 days of the BRUKIVKA International Film Festival, guests and participants can visit all the locations and events free of charge: outdoor films in the medieval Old Fortress, experimental 3D light show on the walls of the fortress, performances by popular music groups, meetings with the leaders of the Ukrainian cinema industry in the format "Living Library", workshops from directors, producers, actors and scriptwriters, exhibitions of artists and photographers, panel discussions and presentations, informal excursions around the Old City, children's shows from robots Transformers, competition for the best cosplay of heroes of comics, cinema and anime, red tracks in the fortress and the City Palace of Culture, interesting photoshops on the main locations of the festival.

Nearly 800 films from 70 countries of the world, including over 120 works by young filmmakers from Ukraine, were presented at the 2019 festival. Evaluates all the works of a professional jury consisting of well-known film critics, directors and producers of Ukraine and the USA. This year the prize fund of the competition program for the cinema festival is more than 50 000 UAH.

Kamyanets-Podilsky BRUKIVKA International Film Festival has been successfully organized for three years with the support of the creative association of writers and artists of Stone Island and its chairwoman Tetyana Smetanyuk. The NGO was founded in 2015 by an initiative group that sought to create and implement cultural projects. A collection of short prose, Aurinia's Dreams, was published about Kamianets-Podilsky, and the White Phoenix International Literary and Art Magazine was published to give young writers and artists a chance to realize themselves.
A significant sign for the development of the organization was the participation in the creation together with Andriy Zayets of the BRUKIVKA International Film Festival in 2017.
The NGO is also working on the implementation of socially active projects. So, in 2018, they formed a joint with Kamianets-Podilskyi City Council and opened the LoveKa Youth Center. In 2018, they became a member of the UNICEF Youth-Friendly Youth Initiative Organizing Committee, and the Watchtower Project is an Active Citizen of the City, one of the best projects in the Book of Success Q4 2018 as part of the PULSE Project implemented by the Association of Ukrainian Cities with the support of USAID.

The Stone Island NGO was part of a team that helped the town of Kamianets-Podilskyy receive the status of the Youth Capital of Ukraine 2019.

Andriy Zayets is the founder and director of the BRUKIVKA International Film Festival in Kamianets-Podilsky. Since childhood he has been a big fan of cinema and has been involved in the creation of author's short and full-length feature films since his school years, is a winner and nominee of many festivals in Ukraine and abroad. He was born, studied and lives in Kamianets-Podilsky, who loves and tries to develop culturally.