Mykhailo Illienko was born on 29 June 1947, in
Moscow,
Russian SFSR,
Soviet Union. He graduated from the
All-Union State Institute of Cinematography in 1970. Since 1973, he has been a director at the
Kyiv Dovzhenko Film Studio. Since 1997, he has been the organizer of the Open Night Film Festival. Since 2000, he has been the dean of the film faculty at the
Kyiv National I. K. Karpenko-Kary Theatre, Cinema and Television University. He is a member of the
National Union of Cinematographers of Ukraine. From April 2017 to November 2018, he was the Chairman of the Board of the
Ukrainian Film Academy. In March 2022, he joined the
Ukrainian Territorial Defense Forces during the
Russian invasion of Ukraine. == References ==