TeploKomunEnergo is a municipal heating company in a provincial Ukrainian town. Most of its workers are as old as the company and for five days per week they deal with bursting radiators, flooded basements and angry clients. Except for Wednesdays, when their lives are put on hold at 3pm for the love for music. Ivan Vasyliovych has long been the trade union leader at TeploKomunEnergo in Ivano-Frankivsk. His magnum opus is the trade union choir for mechanics, repairmen, dispatchers, bookkeepers and other employees, and Ivan is very proud of their creative achievements. Over the course of three years, Nadia Parfan skilfully observed how working-class culture and human warmth can serve as a survival mechanism in times of great transition. 'Heat Singers' explores how outdated social structures which no longer fit into the modern economy, continue, paradoxically, to function.
CREW
Director: Nadia Parfan
Producer: Illia Gladstein
Cinematographer: Dmytro Burko, Vasyl Goshovsky
Editor: Mykola Bazarkin
Sound : Margaryta Kulichova
PRODUCTION
Phalanstery Films (UA)
SALES
Illia Gladshtein
Tel. +380632807335
Nadia Parfan was born in Ivano-Frankivsk. She studied cultural studies, anthropology, and urbanism. In 2014-15, she took a documentary film directing course at Andrzej Wajda Film School in Poland. Her student film “Reve ta Stohne on Tour” received a special mention at DocudaysUA. It also premiered at Warsaw IFF and was selected to a number of other international film festivals. Nadia is a creative producer of the MyStreetFilmsUkraine documentary series and a co-founder of the festival of film and urbanism, "86", and the production company, "Phalanstery Films".