Darya Bassel was born in Ukraine in 1985. Studied German language and literature in Odessa, after graduating moved to Kyiv and worked in TV and commercial production as a producer. In 2011 joined the team of Docudays UA International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival (Kyiv) where she works to this day as a programmer and industry head. Parallel to her work at the festival she works in film production. My father is my mother’s brother directed by Vadym Ilkov (the most innovative film in the international competition at Visions du reel 2018) was the first film where she worked as associate producer and festival agent. In 2019 together with Vika Khomenko she launched Moon Man film production. The company focuses on creative documentary and fiction films with a strong author’s approach. At the moment Moon Man has fiction and documentary titles in different stages of development and production made in coproduction with partners from the Netherlands, Denmark and Germany.