Oleksiy Andronyak is a Ukrainian-born, Portuguese-raised film director based in the United Kingdom, working across narrative features and short films from development through release. With two feature films distributed on major VOD platforms and multiple festival-selected shorts to his name, his work centres on character-driven stories set in worlds that are charged with a sense of adventure. His films follow characters whose inner lives are tested by the situations they find themselves in, drawing equally from personal drama and epic-scale imagination, reminiscent of the adventure films that shaped his upbringing.

His filmmaking draws directly from growing up between two cultures. Born in Ukraine, Oleksiy grew up surrounded by snowy winters, folklore, dark forests, vast wheat fields, omnipresent cemeteries, rivers known for taking children, and the distant silhouette of the Carpathian Mountains, places where the supernatural never felt entirely separate from everyday life. Summers that meant long days outside, in forests and by rivers, where the fun and the danger were often the same thing.

Raised in Portugal by the Atlantic coast, he absorbed a radically different rhythm of life: the pull of the ocean, the seducing heat, the particular sweetness of melancholy that runs through the culture, and a way of telling stories rooted in emotion and human connection. It was there that he discovered theatre, spending four years acting and developing plays before transitioning into film. After graduating in Political Science and time spent working in insurance fraud investigation, Oleksiy travelled extensively, living between working-class realities and creative subcultures, deepening his understanding of what people are made of.

Alongside directing and producing through Nonsense Making Machine, Oleksiy teaches at London Metropolitan University, contributing to studio and production training for emerging filmmakers and journalists. Those who work with him describe a director steady under pressure, deeply performance-focused, and capable of bringing everyone around him into his way of seeing and feeling. As a filmmaker, he is equally invested in human complexity and ambitious world-building.