Igor was raised in a soviet military town in the north of Czech republic, after his parents left Ukraine and decided to start from scratch. He almost got into movie-making as a 6-year-old when they sent him to an audition for Kolja, a seminal 90s movie.

When he got his first skate he started cruising the streets with his friends but after a while he picked-up the family camera and started filming others. The movie-making magic fascinated him more than doing tricks with a board.

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