Title of film : Ida-Virumaa
Director Name : Anna Iashchenkova
Cast & crew :
Producer : Anna Iashchenkova
Editor : Anna Iashchenkova ,Dmitriy Nagovskiy
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Synopsis : Nina lives with the father, who is seriously ill. She works at the Helpline. Between doctor`s visits and her conversations with unstable teens she has a bit of a time to watch street boys playing football in the yard. Their vividness is the exact opposite of her routine existence. She tries to defeat the hopelessness inside her with the help from one of the boys, but suffers a complete defeat.
Director Bio : I was born in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Graduated from Saint Petersburg State Institute of Culture in 2014 and Saint Petersburg School of a New Cinema in 2018. I spent my childhood between St. Petersburg (Russia) and a small town Sillamäe, which is near by Russian/Estonian border and where my grandparents lived. That`s gave me a great opportunity to know the joys and sorrows of a big city as well as of the small town in the very young age. From 2000 to 2007 I visited a theater studio, where constantly played witches and robbers. From 2004 to 2009 I studied art in the teen art school, which graduated with a diploma of a sculptor. At the age of 12 I got the first camera from my dad and start shooting. There were a lot of interesting things to shoot around, consider my father collects vinyl records and travels in multiple strange places around the world. He was also the one to instilled to me a lust for traveling and love toweirdness. And as it well known. There are nothing more cinematic, than weirdness. After graduating from the Institute of Culture, I worked for some time as a graphic designer during the day, and played guitar in punk rock bands in the evenings. In the desire to find myself, I`ve learned to play the piano, dance hip-hop and cook 12 types of pancakes. In 2016 started to attend Saint Petersburg School of a new cinema, there shot my first film in 2019.
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