The environment work recreated turn-of-the-century Galician townscapes and period interiors; Chumak contributed as a matte painter.
Viddana is a 2020 Ukrainian period drama directed by Khrystyna Syvolap, adapted from Sofia Andrukhovych's novel Felix Austria and set in the early-1900s Austro-Hungarian city of Stanislaviv. It carries elements of drama, history and fantasy, with post-production completed in Ukraine.
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Viddana is based on Sofia Andrukhovych's novel Felix Austria. The story of two foster sisters, the maid Stefania Chornenko and the doctor's daughter Adelia Anger, is set in provincial Austro-Hungary around 1900, in the town of Stanislaviv, now Ivano-Frankivsk. The production chose not to film a period town on location. Instead, it built the setting from scratch at the Nizhylovychi film village outside Kyiv, covering roughly four hectares of land. The build included dozens of houses, shops, municipal buildings and a central square, a market with trading stalls, a schoolyard, a Jewish quarter and the Anger-Skolyk family villa. During a 30-day shoot in 2019, the crew also filmed in Kyiv, Chernivtsi and Bila Tserkva. The production built the villa's interiors as a separate set on a Film.UA soundstage. According to Ukrainian Wikipedia's production section, Postmodern Digital handled the film's post-production. For PostModern Digital, Chumak worked on Viddana as lead concept artist and lead matte painter.
Source: FILM.UA Group · Ukrainian Wikipedia · postmodern.ua
Postmodern Digital handled the film's post-production, according to the production section on Ukrainian Wikipedia. Anastasiia Chumak is named by her own Viddana credit as lead concept artist and lead matte painter at PostModern Digital. No other visual effects vendor, VFX supervisor, or shot count for the film has appeared in English or Ukrainian coverage.
Filming for Viddana ran for 30 days in 2019, taking place in Kyiv, Chernivtsi, Bila Tserkva, and the Nizhylovychi film village near Kyiv. For the Nizhylovychi location, the production constructed an actual set that reproduced turn-of-the-century Ivano-Frankivsk, known then as Stanislaviv, on approximately four hectares of land, as reported by a FILM.UA Group production report.
Khrystyna Syvolap directed Viddana, a 2020 Ukrainian historical drama based on Felix Austria, Sofia Andrukhovych's novel. The story follows Stefania Chornenko, a maid, and Adelia Anger, the daughter of the family that employs her, in provincial Austro-Hungary. Volga Ukraine distributed the film, which premiered in Ukrainian cinemas on January 16, 2020.
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