Tetiana Dorodnitsyna - film director, editor and visual artist. Graduated from the Directing Department at the Kyiv National I. K. Karpenko-Kary Theatre, Cinema and Television University. She is the director of the short films “Wolves” (2023) and “Who Is Kaya?” (2019). She worked for television channels, film production companies, and the Kyivtelefilm film studio. She is the editor of feature documentaries “Roses. Film-Cabaret” (2021) by Irena Stetsenko and “Askania Reserve” (2019) by Andrii Lytvynenko. She participated in Eurasia Doc Lab, Astra Film Lab, Kharkiv Meet Doc Lab, and Millennium Docs Against Gravity Industry, among others. She received a scholarship from the President of Ukraine for the film “Where is the Dog Buried?” (2020). “Everything Needs to Live” is her feature debut.

Andrii Lytvynenko - film director and producer. He graduated from the Kyiv National I. K. Karpenko-Kary Theatre, Cinema and Television University and the Documentary Studio at the Wajda School in Poland. He is the director of “Fantastic Ukrainians. Fine Art” (2020), a part of documentary series, and feature documentary “Askania Reserve” (2019), which received the Best Film Award at the Docudays UA festival and the Special Jury Prize at the Pelicam Film Festival. He is also the co-author and one of the co-directors of “Euromaidan. Rough Cut” (2014), which won Special Mention at the Ji.hlava Inter- national Documentary Film Festival, the Ukrainian producer and one of the authors of the idea for “The Trial: The State of Russia vs Oleg Sentsov” (2017) by Askold Kurov and the author of the idea for the documentary almanac “Beyond the Euros” (2012). For the film “Where is the Dog Buried?” (2020) he received a scholarship from the President of Ukraine.