director producer screenwriter
He graduated of the Ivan Karpenko-Kary National University of Theatre, Film and television in Kiev in 1993 in the actor"s class (tutor: Valentyna Zymniya) and finished the film directing course for feature films (tutor: Leonid Osyka) in 1998.
Born in Kamin-Kashyrskyi in the Volyn Oblast. He made his internships in the Netherlands and the United States. In the years 1994–2000 he worked as a film director, director of photography, director of the production in the feature and documentary films" section of the Ukrainian branch of the international organisation Internews Network (presenly Internews).
He produced several dozen documentaries (eg for such stations as Internews Network, Canal+, the Ukrainian television channel 1+1, NTV, TNT, Polsat, DALAS studio, IKON, Public Relations Officer Helvecia).
He was the director of photography of several documentary films and directed a few documentary and feature short films. Sanin presides over the Ukrainian Association of Young Cinematographers.
He plays the bandura, torban, hurdy-gurdy and follows the Volhynia tradition of hurdy-gurdy players. The Guide about the fate of Ukrainian kobzars was premiered on October 10, 2014 at the 30th Warsaw Film Festival.
Using the pseudonym Oleś Smyk (Ukrainian: Олесь Смик), he is a member of the Kiev Kobzar Gild.
