🎬 Director
Lev Omelchenko
Age · 33
Born · Jan 14, 1993
From · Kramatorsk, Ukraine
Films · 6
🎬 Director
Biography
Lev Omelchenko is an Emmy Award Winning film director and cinematographer based in Atlanta, GA. He is an Ukrainian-born Brooklyn-raised immigrant. Utilizing both documentary and narrative forms, Lev’s work focuses on telling poetic and cinematic stories of joyful militancy in the American South. His films have screened and won awards across major US festivals including New Orleans Film Festival, Brooklyn Film Festival, Indie Memphis and Prismatic Ground. His work has also screened at UPenn, MIT, Columbia, Emory and Pratt Institute among other higher education institutions. His work has been featured by Al Jazeera, More Perfect Union, Vice and Atlanta Community Press Collective. He is a distinguished fellow at the Hambidge Center for the Creative Arts and Sciences.
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