Company

Pierogi Productions

Pierogi Productions

Duration

2 Weeks

2 Weeks

Date

Date

Welcoming Audiences into an Episodic Series

Marketing an indie Ukrainian series production, providing a content strategy built to make strangers care about this meaningful story.

About the Project

Content strategy and campaign marketing for "Ukrainian, But Not Ukraine", an indie episodic series by Ethan Persyko exploring Ukrainian identity, family, and belonging. Reels, graphics, and interview content built specifically for this story to grow an audience and drive fundraising for production.

Content strategy and campaign marketing for "Ukrainian, But Not Ukraine", an indie episodic series by Ethan Persyko exploring Ukrainian identity, family, and belonging. Reels, graphics, and interview content built specifically for this story to grow an audience and drive fundraising for production.

Challenges

You can't market feeling. You have to create it.

Independent film fundraising lives or dies on emotional resonance. Audiences won't support a project they don't feel connected to, and connection is hard to manufacture for a series that doesn't exist yet. The additional complexity here was specificity: "Ukrainian, But Not Ukraine" occupies a space that's easy to misread. Too much emphasis on the geopolitical context and it becomes a news story. Too personal and it loses the universality that makes people outside the community care. The campaign had to hold both, specific enough to be authentic, open enough to travel.

Summary

"Home is complicated. So is making a series about it."

The creative direction pulled directly from the film's own emotional logic. Home Is Complicated became the campaign's anchor, a line that captures the series' tension in four words and opens it up to anyone who has ever felt the pull of a place they don't fully belong to. From that foundation, the campaign expanded into reels, interview content, and graphics that introduced the project's world without over-explaining it. The fundraising campaign is ongoing and production continues, but the work of making strangers care about a story still being written is already underway.