Oksana Ivanyuk

Oksana Ivanyuk is a Ukrainian film and television producer and screenwriter, the founder of IQ Production - an independent production group based in Kyiv that today comprises three companies: IQ LTD, Rikki-Tikki-Tavi LTD and Polygon Film LTD. Since establishing the group in 2011, she has built a portfolio that spans prime-time scripted series, narrative features, documentary cinema and entertainment formats. Ivanyuk has delivered over six hundred episodes of scripted television to Ukraine's leading broadcasters, including 1+1, ICTV, Novyi Kanal, STB and TET. Among her series credits are the action-adventure comedy Cossacks. Totally Fake Tale (2020), released by ICTV and the romantic series Romeo and Juliet from Cherkasy acquired by Netflix. Recent series in production include the 10-episode Sun Diggers, supported by Ukrainian Film Academy and Netflix grant. The documentary Plai (2021), directed by Eva Dzhyshiashvili and produced by Ivanyuk, won the Grand Prix at Docudays.ua in Kraków and was selected by DOK Leipzig, Sheffield Doc/Fest, OneWorld Bucharest and Doc Valencia. Before founding IQ Production, Ivanyuk held senior programming roles at STB, TET and Kino TV Channels, and served as General Producer of the independent channel TVi (2011-2012). She holds a Master's degree with honours in Sociology and Psychology from Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv also trained in film producing in the class of Alexander Rodnyansky at the High School of Directors and Scriptwriters (2009-2010). She is a member of the Ukrainian Film Academy and the National Union of Cinematographers of Ukraine, and has continued to live and produce in Kyiv throughout the full-scale invasion of Ukraine.