He graduated with a master's degree in Film Studies and Television and Radio Studies at Palacký University in Olomouc and studied Directing and Screenwriting at the Tomas Bata University Film School in Zlín. In the years 2017-2018 he completed an international course of production studies at FAMU International and participated in the production of several student documentaries. He continued his cooperation with FAMU and still works as an external producer for projects of foreign students. He worked as an event and production manager in several cinemas and arthouse film clubs and since 2019 he has been working as an industry curator of the 4Science program at the Academia Film Olomouc festival.

Since 2013, she has been involved in the production and programming of several film festivals, exhibitions and cultural events in the Czech Republic and abroad. She studied English Philology and Film Studies at Palacký University in Olomouc. Since 2015, she has been Head of the Industry 4Science section at the Academia Film Olomouc (AFO) international documentary film festival. She currently works in Prague as the manager of the community-driven documentary distribution project KineDok, which is one of the activities of the Documentary Film Institute.

Since 1st November 2017 – Executive Director of the Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union. Deputy Head of the Commission under the President of Ukraine on pardons (since August 2019) Member of the Supervisory Board of National Public Broadcasting Company of Ukraine (since December 2017). Member of the Legal Reform Commission under the President of Ukraine (since August 2019). Member of the Consultative Council on protection rights and freedoms of defenders of Ukraine (since April 2021). For over 10 years, led the diplomatic institution –Information Office of the Council of Europe in Ukraine. For 15 years, he had been involved in project coordination and management by the Council of Europe in Ukraine. Was an executive director of the “Ukrainian Legal Aid Foundation” – organisation which developed the legal aid provision standards in Ukraine. The author and co-author of a number of publications on the case-law of the European Court of Human Rights, manuals and guides on the issues of rights for information, in particular, access to public information, as well as the publications on the free legal aid. Worked at the philological faculty of Kyiv State University named after Taras Shevchenko (deputy dean of the philological faculty on the work with foreign students) and at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine at the department of information.

Maria Kurinna is a human rights expert, with a background in diplomacy and a strong record of international advocacy experience, advocacy campaigns promoting rights of women and girls in Ukraine, child rights, rights of IDPs and CAP in the context of Russian aggression. Maria has experience in advocating at the UN HRC, UN OHCHR, Committee on the Rights of the Child, CEDAW,CoE, European Parliament. Currently, Maria is international advocacy chief of the Human Rights Centre ZMINA. ZMINA has been focused on monitoring human rights violations in the temporarily occupied Crimea and currently is documenting war crimes and crimes against humanity as a member of https://www.5am.in.ua/en Maria is passionate about promoting human rights and bring to account perpetrators to more justice.