Vyacheslav (Slavik) Bihun

Vyacheslav (Slavik) Bihun is a Ukrainian film director and legal philosopher. Educated at leading universities in Ukraine and abroad, Dr Bihun prior to turning to filmmaking worked as a lawyer at the European Court in Strasbourg. He was later trained as film director at Sorbonne (adaptation of fiction and political cinema) and the Baltic Film School. The filmmaker, active from 2013-14, shot films in Ukraine, Georgia, Estonia and France, nominated at over 150 film festivals and celebrated with over 100 awards. He’s well noted for active promotion of Ukrainian cinema. Dr. Bihun supported the release of his colleague Oleg Sentsov by joining him for 17 days in solidarity for the hunger strike. He is one of the founders and Supervisory Board’s Head of the newly created Directors Guild of Ukraine which is the voice of film directors of Ukraine.