Polina Herman(II)

Polina UrA Herman is an IDA-nominated producer and the founder of UP UA Studio, which she established in 2016. She graduated from Kyiv National Theater, Cinema, and Television University, I. Karpenko-Kary in 2013 with a degree in the Organization of Cinema and Television Production. Also she became a student of the UCLA School of Theater Film & Television, participating in the Summer 2023 UCLA Professional Program in Producing.

Prior to that, she studied marketing and advertising at the Kyiv Institute of Culture and the Arts and the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. Following her graduation, Herman worked for several years in cinema production, marketing, and distribution, holding various positions, from the PR Director of Insight Media LLC, Executive Producer of LLC Tatofilm, Producer at the State Film Studio National Kinemateka of Ukraine to Producer of the Carpathian Mountain International Film Festival (Uzhgorod) in 2021. In 2016, Herman founded her company, UP UA STUDIO, which is engaged in film production, development, and advancement of Ukrainian cinema in Ukraine and abroad. In 2022, her film Price of Conflict participated in the 38th IDA Documentary Awards in the ABC News VideoSource nomination.

In 2022, Polina UrA Herman came to Los Angeles as a war refugee, where she organized the Days of Ukrainian Cinema with the support of the American Cinematheque.

Her filmography includes the following: 2024: Divia, a full-length documentary film (in production) - general producer; 2023: King Lear: How We Looked for Love During the War, a full-length documentary film - general producer; 2022: Price of Conflict, a full-length documentary film - general producer; 2022: MY, a music video - general producer; 2022: Mountains and Heaven in Between, a full-length documentary film - general producer; 2021: Cultural event "Open Air Cinema Vernissage 2021" - general producer; 2021: Broken, a short feature film - general producer; 2021: Homo Deus. Divine Human, a short feature film - general producer; 2021: Between Us, a full-length feature film - general producer; 2020: Salt for the sea, a short feature film - general producer; 2020: Numbers, a full-length feature drama - Line Producer (as Polina Bushynska) 2018: Khalepa na 5 Baksiv, a full-length feature film - general producer; 2019: 99 Songs, full-length feature Indian romance - transportation coordinator; 2019: In Our Synagogue, short - Executive Producer; 2018: In Joy and Only in Joy, a short feature film, Ukraine - general producer; 2018: Family Hour, short - General Producer; 2018: Hero of My Time, full-length comedy - Executive Producer; 2017: The Traitor, full-length - Executive Producer; 2017: Winner, full-length Indian drama - Transportation Coordinator; 2016: The Nest of the Turtledove, full-length drama - Promotion Director 2016: Crimea as It Was (2016) - Screening Organizer (as Polina Bushynska) 2016: Mariupolis - Executive Producer 2014: Nasha Nadiya - Executive Producer

Polina UrA Herman is a member of The Producers Guild of America, European Film Academy, Ukrainian Film Academy, the National Union of Cinematographers of Ukraine, Film Independent, European Psychodrama Association (PAfE), Institute of Psychodrama, Modern Psychology, and Psychotherapy, member of International Documentary Association. She is also a student of UCLA School of Theater Film & Television, participating in the Summer 2023 UCLA Professional Program in Producing.