Viktar Dashuk (Belarus)
Viktar Dashuk has under his long career received numerous honors and prizes for his work as filmmaker, playwright, journalist and photographer. Studied directing under Andrei Tarkovsky in Moscow. Dashuk began his creative life at the "Belarusfilm" cinema studio, where he shot about a hundred documentaries and two feature films. After president Alexander Lukashenko came to power, Dashuk was dismissed from the studio and deprived of the possibility to work within the Belarusian Academy of Arts, where he had been the leader for documentary film directing workshops. Since then Dashuk has published a series of important essays criticizing Lukashenko’s dictatorship. He also started his own film studio called Spadar D ("Mister D") which is currently in the making of a 12-piece series of documentary films ("Belarusian Decameron"), protesting the regime. A lady with loose morals by the name of Themis is the sixth film in this dodecalogy.
