Creative Activity of Ukrainian Film and Television Director V. Horpenko

The purpose of the article is to analyse the creative activity in audiovisual art and production of Ukrainian film and TV director, actor, teacher of screen arts, Doctor of Arts, Professor, Academician of the Higher School Academy Volodymyr Hryhorovych Horpenko. Research methodology is based on applying the personological method, the method of the theory of individuality and the historical-biographical one. These approaches allow the researcher to collect and analyze the unknown or little-known facts about Volodymyr Hryhorovych Horpenko’s creative activity in screen arts. Conclusions. Concluding the aforementioned, it can be stated that the scientific objectives have been accomplished: personal life and career of Ukrainian film and television director V. Horpenko have been studied; his advent to cinematography has been described; the reasons why V. Horpenko refused to shoot the feature film «Nina» with О. Shvachko have been analysed; the situation formed at the time of work on the film after the same name science fiction novel by the Struhatsky brothers «Hard to be a God» has been described; the directing work of V. Horpenko on Ukrainian television has been mentioned. Nevertheless, the prospects for scientific research remain promising, as V. Horpenko continues active work in the sphere of audiovisual art and production, as well as pedagogy of screen arts of Ukraine. The significance of this research in terms of Art History lies within discovering and introducing the new important facts about creative activity in audiovisual art and production of Ukrainian film and television director, actor, teacher of screen arts, Doctor of Arts, Professor, Academician of the Higher School Academy Volodymyr Hryhorovych Horpenko