Grantees

The projects listed below have been supported by Documenting Ukraine. This is not a complete list; other grantees have opted not to publish information about their projects, and new projects are being added to the site on an ongoing basis.

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Project	Grantee
Survive and Win: The Russo-Ukrainian War of 2022	Roman Mykhalchuk
Documenting testimony of Russian trauma and aggression from evacuees, volunteers, soldiers, government reps and local elites doing all they can to win
There Is a Land Beyond Perekop	Anastasia Levkova
A novel about Crimea covering 1992-2014, focusing on Crimean Tatar families & their experiences, explores ethnic communities in Crimea & factors leading to annexation
Ukrainian Childhood in the Face of War (Українське дитинство перед викликом війни)	Anna Oksiutovych
Interviews with displaced children and care givers document their stories and highlight the emotional significance of objects that travel with them
Methodology of Documenting War Stories for the Virtual Museum of the Russian Aggression	Olha Volianiuk
Revealing the peculiarities of developing documentary war stories via the presentation of case studies for the Virtual Museum of Russian Aggression
The Heritage	Alina Gorlova
A film about memory and change that serves as a portrait of the invading forces, seeking to capture reasons for actions seemingly beyond understanding
Searching for Pokémon: Documentary Film	Mykhailo Volkov
Following photographer Alexander Chekmenev’s search for a girl he photographed two decades ago to give her a promised print and to hear her story
A Collection of Testimonies from Ukrainian Teachers	Nadia Ufimtseva
Collecting testimonies from Ukrainian teachers – often persecuted as ‘agents of influence’ – in particular alumni of the Center for Holocaust Studies
Justice Initiative Fund	Stanislav Aseyev
Creating a memorial site to preserve the facts of Russian atrocities in the national memory of Ukraine
Kharkiv - My Favorite City	Yevhenii Telukha
Preserving the memories of Kharkiv’s citizens by charting their favourite places on an interactive digital map
Diaries of War: Documenting Life Experiences in Spring 2022	Bohdan Shumylovych
Using methodologies of lived experience and embodiment, this project documents experiences of war through creative collaboration and social analysis.
The Past Unsimple	Sashko Protyah
A hybrid documentary project tracing elusive and eloquent memory narratives in the setting of the Ukrainian periphery
Testimonies from the Fortunoff Archive	Maryna Poliakova
Working with the Fortunoff Video Archive to make testimonies by Russian and Ukrainian speakers more accessible through editing and transcription.