Philip Oleksandrovych Sotnychenko (January 8, 1989, Kyiv) is a Ukrainian director, screenwriter, Film editor, and producer.

He entered the Department of Film Studies at the Kyiv National I. K. Karpenko-Kary Theatre, Cinema and Television University[5] (workshop of Professor Valentyna Romanivna Slobodian).

Still, a year later Sotnychenko transferred to the Department of Television Directing (workshop of Professor Yuriy Tereshchenko.

He has twice received the main prizes in the national competition of the Lviv International Short Film Festival, Wiz-Art.

The project participated in the pitching process at the 2019 Odesa Film Festival and received a prize from the HeForShe organization, the UN Women's Solidarity for Gender Equality movement.

In the same year, the development of the project, namely — consultations with specialists letters (doctors and prison workers), camera tests, search for a visual solution, writing a script, and making a teaser for the film took place with the support of the Ukrainian Cultural Foundation.