Director Story

Volodymyr Mula was born October 22, 1989 in Horodenka, Ivano-Frankivsk region, Ukraine.

In 2006, Mula graduated the Horodenka Gymnasium with Gold medal. In 2006–2012 he studied at the Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute and received a master’s degree.

Mula is the author of a series of reports on Rio de Janeiro and the infotainment project Around the Baltic States.

In 2015 Mula shot American Dream, a documentary about immigrants from post-soviet countries in United States. The film depicts a Ukrainian journalist’s trip in a long-haul truck. It covered 11 American states, two oceans, two borders, 10 000 km of roads and yielded 350 gigabytes of footage.

He will film the sequel next year: American Dream. In Search of Truth, a feature documentary. In it, he used the stories of eight people to show paths of self-realization under varying fields and conditions.

From 2018-2020 Mula is working on “UKE”, a documentary about NHL players with Ukrainian background.

In 2021 Mula shot “The Football Nation”. The documentary covers the birth, formation, and development of the Ukrainian National Football Team from 1992 to 2022, spanning the 30 years since their first game in recent history