As It Was

Anastasia Solonevych is a debut director from Kyiv, Ukraine. In 2020, she graduated from the department of Film and Television Directing at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. As a director, Anastasia has made music videos, one of which won the music video section at the International Prague Film Festival in 2022.  Since 2017, she has been working as a 1st AD, as well as in other positions in commercials, feature films and TV series.

Damian Kocur is director and cinematographer. A graduate of the Krzysztof Kieślowski Film School in Katowice and a PhD student at the Film School in Łódź. He is the director of the internationally awarded feature debut "Bread and Salt" (awarded, among others, at festivals in Venice, Cairo, Cottbus, Antalya, Gijon, Bratislava and Gdynia) and several shorts. As a filmmaker, he keeps track of the credibility of emotions on the screen, and considers the authenticity of the characters and their stories to be his most important goal.

Filmography: Lesson (2013), 21 Days (2014), What I Want (2015), The Return (2016), Nothing New Under the Sun (2017), 1410 (2018), My Heart (2019), Beyond Is the Day (2020), Bread and Salt (2022), As It Was (2023)