Biography: Taras Spivak is a Kyiv-based director and editor. He studied at the Department of Cultural Studies of the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. In 2021, Taras and his fellow film enthusiasts worked on cataloguing the archive of the Kyivnaukfilm studio. His latest film, his directorial debut, Under the Sign of Anchor, won the main award in the DOCU/SHORT shorts competition at the XXI Docudays UA. Since 2021, he has been working in film production, specializing in editing non-fiction films and organizing post-production.