Eugene Koshin (Ievgen Koshyn, born 1987 in Donetsk) is a Ukrainian writer-director, a member of the Ukrainian Film Academy. His work moves between comedy and drama, finding deadpan humour in stories shaped by identity, belonging and cultural collision.
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He studied philology at Donetsk National University before turning to cinema. He holds film directing degrees from Kino Eyes – The European Film Masters (UK, Portugal, Estonia, Ireland) and from the Higher Courses for Scriptwriters and Film Directors in Moscow.
His short films Star David, We’ll Never Get Lost Together Again, Dog Thieves and Chop-Chop! have been selected for over 170 festivals worldwide, including PÖFF, Molodist and Lucas. Among their accolades is the Housen Short Film Award, received by We’ll Never Get Lost Together Again at Osaka Asian Film Festival.
Working in film and television since 2015, Koshyn has directed series and entertainment formats. He also directed War in the Fifth Domain, a Monaco–Ukrainian feature-length TV docudrama about Russian cyber warfare and MacronLeaks.
He has also worked internationally as a First Assistant Director. His credits include Ukrainian fantasy Only a Miracle, Vagif Mustafayev’s Hoca Nasreddin: A Friend of Hard Times and Ukrainian block of Jake Paltrow's June Zero.
He is currently developing his debut feature First Ukrainian Spaceman, a Ukrainian–French tragicomedy set in 1990s Ukraine. The project took part in Film Bridge and EKRAN+, organised by Wajda School in Poland.
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