He is a member of the Ukrainian (from 2017) and European (from 2018) film academies,[3] founder and organiser of the Terrarium script development platform.
[5] Studied in a journalism school and later worked as a cameraman and editor for several local and national TV channels, as well as a poster artist for a cinema in Chernivtsi.
[5][7][8] In 2013, he graduated from the Kyiv National I. K. Karpenko-Kary Theatre, Cinema and Television University as a film director (Mykhailo Illienko workshop).
[14][15] After his feature debut, Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk directed a short documentary focusing on Ukrainians who temporarily changed professions to support the country's war efforts against Russia.
[18] In 2018, he supported the appeal of the European Film Academy in defence of Ukrainian filmmaker Oleh Sentsov, who was imprisoned in Russia.
He made a number of statements to draw attention to the fate of Maksym Butkevych, an activist, soldier, and eventually a prisoner in the so-called LPR.