Daria Leygonie-Fialko took part in Kyiv Media Week

For eleven years, the international forum KYIV MEDIA WEEK has been bringing together representatives of the media business from all over the world in Kyiv to discuss topical issues of the industry, share new ideas, and plans for the future.

2021 was no exception – on September 14-15, the media consulting company Media Resources Management (MRM), organizing the forum, gathered the main players of the media market in Hyatt Regency Kyiv: 70 experts from 15 countries and 300 participants talked about restarting the media business in the context of the “new reality”. The two-day KMW program included 18 sections: 10 panel discussions, presentations of 5 analytical studies, 2 special reports, as well as screening of trend shows and a party.

As part of the panel discussion “Ways to develop serial production in Ukraine” Artem Vakalyuk (head of the analytical department at MRM) presented the results of a large-scale study conducted in conjunction with the publication Media Business Reports (MBR) – “Analytics of Ukrainian serials”. According to him, SPACE Production has become the leader among productions in terms of the number of produced hours of serials.

The speakers of the discussion panel spoke about the challenges and achievements of the Ukrainian serial industry: Natalya Stribuk, chief producer of the film-serial production department of the Ukraine TV channel, Yekaterina Shevelyuk, general producer of the film-serial production, STB TV channel, Irina Kostyuk, producer of FILM.UA, Daria Leygonie-Fialko, TV Producer, Media Manager, now General Producer and Founder of SPACE Production.

“Our production is considered young, and when we entered the market, we understood that there is already someone to produce 4-series and 6-series,” recalls Daria. Trace and Blind immediately got good numbers and are still getting”.