Nadia Parfan

Nadia Yaroslavivna Parfan (; born 6 September 1986) is a Ukrainian anthropologist, film director and creative producer who is the co-founder of the 86 film festival, and a member of the Ukrainian Film Academy.

Early life and education Born on 6 September 1986, in the Ukrainian city of Ivano-Frankivsk. M.A. in 2009 ). She was a Fulbright visiting fellow at Philadelphia's Temple University in 2012–2013. She completed a DOK PRO documentary film directing course at the Andrzej Wajda Film School in Warsaw in 2015,

Career Nadia served as the assistant director to Jonathon Narducci on the Love Me documentary produced by Powershot Production in Los Angeles. Beginning in 2014, she transitioned to creating her own films, taking on roles as a writer and director. Her student film, Reve ta Stohne on Tour (2016), earned special recognition at DocuDays UA IHRFF and was officially selected for the Warsaw International Film Festival. Her debut feature, Heat Singers (2019), premiered in the international competition at Visions du Réel. The film garnered accolades, including the Best Documentary Film award from the Ukrainian Film Academy in 2019 and recognition as the best documentary by the Ukrainian Film Critics Association.

In 2023, Nadia would go on to direct the film That is my sea, with Illia Gladshtein as the producer. That same year in March, she pays tribute to the works of Claude LeLouch by lensing modern-day Kyiv in the same manner, at a dizzying pace while a vehicle speeds through its streets. It's A Date, a short film she made. The film was a Takflix creation and earned a Special Mention from the International Short Film Jury, captures the sense of contemporary conflict and the loss of normalcy through visuals displayed on a global scale during Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The New Yorker website released the short video "I didn't want to make a film about war" in 2023.

Other works The 86 International Festival of Film and Urbanism in Slavutych, Ukraine, which she co-founded and curates, runs from 2014 to 2019.