Who is Andriy Pryymachenko and how did he win the case in HBO

Andriy Serhiyovych Pryymachenko is a Ukrainian director and designer.

This is reported by Clicker.

Biography

Andriy Pryymachenko was born on December 1, 1989 in Kyiv, Ukraine.

He graduated from secondary school No. 58 in Kyiv.

From 2004 to 2005, he studied at the Ukrainian Humanitarian Lyceum of the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv.

In 2006, he began to gain knowledge about film production at Orange Coast College (Costa Mesa, Orange County, California).

In 2008, he received a diploma and returned to Ukraine, where he began working as a line producer at Anomaly Film (now Toy Pictures).

In 2008, he created his first music video for the song “Again” for the Highway band.

In 2009–2010, he worked as a director and freelancer.

In 2010–2012, he became a co-owner of the media studio “Trymay! Media”.

In 2012, he founded the Peredova video and multimedia story production studio.

He became the operator of the digital full-length feature film “The Road to the West”.

In 2013, he entered the Master’s Program in Journalism at the Ukrainian Catholic University. In 2015, he completed his studies there and defended his “Master’s Degree in Journalism” on the topic: “Lviv as a Brand (Image Film)”.

In 2015, he became a teacher of the course “Fundamentals of Video Directing” at the Ukrainian Catholic University.

Since May 2022, he has been working as a producer at the international news agency Reuters.

He publishes his videos on vimeo.

He maintains a page on Facebook.

He has a page on imdb.

He has a page on linkedin.

How Andriy Pryymachenko Won the HBO Case

On August 1, 2025, Andriy Pryymachenko announced that he had reached an agreement with HBO after a lawsuit.

Andriy Pryymachenko had been suing HBO for 6 years: he accused the company of using his video without permission in the series “Chernobyl”.

“The agreement with HBO has been concluded. As a result of the trial in the District Court for the Southern District of New York, the parties reached an agreement. This is a significant precedent when it was possible to defend the copyright of a Ukrainian in a US court in a case with one of the largest American (and world) media companies,” the director said.

According to him, the details of the agreement cannot be disclosed, according to the terms of the agreement.

“Since the beginning of this case more than 6 years ago, my goal has been to restore justice. No matter what the company is, no matter what country it is from – whether it is the USA or China – you cannot take someone else’s work and pretend that nothing happened,” Andriy Pryymachenko noted.

“When I took on this case in 2019, I had no idea how long and complex the process would be. Two years of the pandemic and more than three years of a full-scale Russian invasion made this case even more difficult. Throughout the entire journey, I was supported by professionals from the law firm Law Net, with whom we creatively and unconventionally overcame all possible and impossible obstacles,” he added.

The director provided a brief background: in 2019, HBO released the series Chernobyl, the first episode of which copied his work without his knowledge or permission.

“I received rather defiant responses to a friendly appeal to the company producing the series. After that, I decided to go to court. If you have a similar situation, write – I will share my experience. Maybe it will be useful to you,” wrote Andriy Pryymachenko.