Тютюнник Алла
Alla Tiutiunnyk is a writer, screenwriter for feature and documentary movies, journalist, chief editor of the media platform vgoru.org, strategic development director of the Docudays NGO.
She graduated from Kherson State Pedagogical University, Advanced Literary Courses of Moscow Literature Institute, did post-doc research at the Advocacy Institute (Washington, USA), and finished the Advanced International Human Rights Course at Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights (Warsaw, Poland).
Alla Tiutiunnyk was born on 11 June 1949 in Kherson. She took part in the revolutionary movement in Ukraine: in 1989-1990, she headed the People’s Movement of Ukraine in the Kherson region, was actively involved in the Orange Revolution and the work of Euromaidan in Kherson.
In 1989, she established the Foundation for Charity and Welfare that became a potent human rights hub in the Kherson region. Alla Tiutiunnyk took part in establishing and was many times elected a board member of the Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union (UHHRU)
In 2022, she established and headed the newspaper Vgoru which had been published for 15 years and the eponymous online platform https://vgoru.org/ (over 350,000 readers for now). During the occupation of Kherson, its editorial office worked in the underground to provide informational support of patriotic resistance in the Ukrainian East.
Alla Tiutiunnyk is a co-founder of the Docudays NGO which has been holding the Docudays UA International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival (www.docudays.ua) and Travelling Docudays UA International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival (held in 23 regions of Ukraine prior to 2014, in 19 regions now). In 2014, she initiated the launch of the DOCU/CLUB Network aimed at raising awareness of human rights and providing Ukrainians with free access to the best documentary films from all over the world. She headed and developed the network for over 10 years. At the moment, it includes more than 500 documentary clubs. Alla Tiutiunnyk is now the strategic development director of the Docudays NGO and a selection board member of the Docudays UA film festival.
As a co-screenwriter of the movies Volcano and The Editorial Office, she participated in international film festivals in Odesa, Karlovy Vary, Munich, Berlin, Sarajevo, and Leeds.
Recipient of the Order of Princess Olga.
Bibliography
Books:
- 1993 – Over the Banks of the Eternal River ("Над берегами вічної ріки", short novel)
- 1989 – Flight Ranges of an Arrow ("Далі польоту стріли", novel)
- 1983 – Nobody But You ("Ніхто, крім тебе", short prose collection)
- 1982 – Islands Opposite the Town ("Острови навпроти міста", short prose)
- 1981 – 1001 Springs ("1001 джерело", poems)
- 1975 – Fondness ("Ніжність", poems)
Screenplays:
- 2019 – The Editorial Office, feature movie. (Co-authored with Roman Bondarchuk and Daria Averchenko). The film was premiered on 16 February 2024 at the Berlinale International Film Festival. It was screened at 12 international film festivals and got 5 awards. Nominated for the Golden Dzyga award in 5 categories by the Ukrainian Film Academy.
- 2015 – Volcano, feature movie. (Co-authored with Roman Bondarchuk and Daria Averchenko). The film was screened at 54 international film festivals and got 10 awards.
- 2011 – September 1, feature movie. Was awarded the 2nd prize at the national literary contest Coronation of the Word.
- 2009 – Embrace Me, feature movie (co-authored with Daria Averchenko for the MTV Channel).
- 2009 - 22-24, feature movie. (Co-authored with Roman Bondarchuk and Daria Averchenko, was awarded a prize at the national literary contest Coronation of the Word).
- 1990 – Flight Ranges of an Arrow (two-part feature movie, directed by Vasyl Viter).
- 1988 – Groundwater (documentary, directed by Vasyl Viter).