Volodymyr Viktorovych Tykhyi (; born on February 25, 1970, in Chervonohrad, Lviv Oblast, Ukrainian SSR) is a Ukrainian film director, screenwriter and film producer of documentaries and feature films.Каталог Київського Міжнародного кінофестивалю «Молодість». Київ, 2000. — С.67;Тихий Володимир Вікторович // Комітет з національної премії України імені Тараса Шевченка, 2018 He is a member of the National Union of Cinematographers of Ukraine, and he is a 2018 winner of the Taras Shevchenko National Prize of Ukraine for a series of historical and documentary films about the Revolution of Dignity.Decree of the President of Ukraine from 7 березня 2018 year № 60/2018 «Про присудження Національної премії України імені Тараса Шевченка»
Biography Volodymyr was born on February 25, 1970, in Chervonohrad, Lviv region. After graduating from high school, Volodymyr entered the Chervonohrad Mining College in 1987. In 1989-1991, he served in the Soviet army in the naval aviation, and was stationed in Belarus.Володимир Тихий замість жінки свариться з папугою // Gazeta.ua, 9 січня 2008
Later, in 1992, he entered the Karpenko-Kary Kyiv State Institute of Theater Arts, Faculty of Directing. He graduated in 1997. He worked at the TV studios Studio 1+1, Danapris-Film, and was the director of the quite famous at the time program SV-Show with Verka Serdiuchka.О. В. Безручко. Кінопедагогічна діяльність М. Г. Іллєнка // Культура і сучасність. — 2013. — № 1. — С. 126—131
He started his career as a director of TV movies and TV series. Later, he changed his focus to documentaries and eventually moved on to making feature films. In most of his films, he is the director and screenwriter of his own films. The only exception is the film The Seventh Route (1997), where Tychyi acted only as a co-author of the script."Володимир Тихий // Енциклопедія «кіно-кола», 2008
He is one of the creators of the film projects "Assholes. Arabesques", "Ukraine, Goodbye!", and "Babylon'13". In 2018, he was one of the winners of the Taras Shevchenko National Prize of Ukraine for his series of historical documentaries about the Revolution of Dignity.Decree of the President of Ukraine from 7 березня 2018 year № 60/2018 «Про присудження Національної премії України імені Тараса Шевченка»
Personal life In 1996 he married his classmate Yulia Shashkova. The couple has two children: daughter Anya (born in 1996) and son Timothy (born in 2002).Володимир Тихий замість жінки свариться з папугою // Gazeta.ua, 9 січня 2008
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