Denis Dobrovoda is an Oscar and EFA-qualified documentary film director. His 2022 debut documentary The Cathedral won the Golden Horn for the Best Film in the International Competition at the 62nd Krakow Film Festival. The film was cinema-released in three countries and broadcast on TV channels worldwide, including in Japan, South Korea, New Zealand, Switzerland, Austria, and other countries.

 

His TV documentary They Never Came Back looked back at the astonishing life story of professor Gerta Vrbova, a Holocaust survivor who passed away in 2020. The film was made with the support of the National Holocaust Museum in Slovakia and was broadcast on RTVS. 

 

Denis also made two multi-award-winning narrative short films Savage and Apparition which enjoyed success at a number of Oscar and BAFTA-qualifying festivals and were sold for broadcast on the BBC, Noe TV and ShortsTV.

 

Denis has also produced or directed a number of TV productions for British TV broadcasters including ITV and Channel 4.

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He studied Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at the University of Oxford, and has a diploma in Film Directing from the École Internationale de Création Audiovisuelle et de Réalisation in Paris.

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Feel free to get in touch on denisdobrovoda@gmail.com