I was born in Russia on Catholic Christmas, December 25, 1992. In my childhood, my family lived in the city of Birobidzhan (Jewish Autonomous Region), the only official Jewish settlement in the world (even before Israel), created by the Soviet government as an alternative to the Zionist project on the territory of modern Russia from 1934 and located in the Far East near to China. Jewish people were forced to live there by Stalin, including my ancestors. Therefore I’m inclined to consider oppressive political and governmental authoritarian systems in my film scripts.

In 2016, I graduated from State Maritime academy of Admiral Makarov, radio engineering department. It was former military institution - that’s why I hardly accomplished it because of psychological reasons even I was most talented student there. I was oppressed there because of my liberal political beliefs.

In 2023, I graduated from the VGIK, in the field of scriptwriting and theatrical dramaturgy (Workshop of Yuri Arabov, who won best screenplay prize and France's «Humanity» at Festival de Cannes-1999 for his film script «Moloch» about Adolf Hitler). My diploma script “Olesya’s home” was dedicated to the Russian social provocative problem of orphanage children who can’t be positively adopted to ordinary families after all that they outlived. This story is based on the history of my own family. My MA thesis is devoted to spiritual theme in cinema and is titled “Miracle as a film dramaturgy model”.

In October 2024, I also completed one-year Development producer (show-runner) program in Moscow Film School, where I developed my first TV Series script (“Psychodrama”) for Mars Media Entertainment (TOP-3 leading film company in Russia). This work is devoted to the study of feeling of guilt and a variety of its psychological appearance in human life. That time I got a proven experience of management of the film preproduction team while working in Mars Media Entertainment.

From 2022 (since Russia's invasion to Ukraine) to 2024, I mainly lived in Turkey, striving for accomplishing my artistic duties in Russia in such distant regime as it was possible and vainly trying to come to terms with a new everyday life and politic reality of my personal and surrounding crushing world. Meanwhile, I took part and won best prizes in a variety of pitching sessions and script contests. However, two my feature scripts were censored and excluded from the main competition by Ministry of Culture of Russia, because they are dedicated to too much provocative and objectionable social issues of Russia: intrastate inter-ethnic conflict and difficult orphaned children who were returned by foster parents to orphanages.

In December of 2024 I moved to the Netherlands, Amsterdam, and started my international career as migrant artist. I'm always open-hearted to new exciting cinema, theatrical and collaboration opportunities with artists from around the world.
FILMOGRAPHY

"Olesya’s home", dir. by Yuliana Grimuta/ drama, comedy, 120 min., feature fiction/ TBF 2026, Russia (preproduction)
"Symphony of the Fear", prod. by Daria Kim/ pshy-horror, 18 min., fiction /TBF 2025, Russia (preproduction)
"At the edge", dir. by Maria Ivanova/ absurd comedy, 18 min., fiction/ 2025, Bulgaria (post-production)
"Kokica", dir. by Andrey Krechetov/ drama, 25 min., fiction /TBF 2025, Serbia (production)
"Orbital velocity", dir. by Kristina Shirinova/ mockumentary, 3 min., fiction/ 2025, Russia
"The Lamb", dir. by Kristina Shirinova/ drama, comedy, 24 min., fiction / 2024, Russia
"Exodus", dir. by Rene Grempel/ drama, 19 min., fiction / 2024, Russia, Germany
"Salvation", dir. by Nikita Dobrynin/ drama, 18 min., fiction / 2024, Russia
"Communal signing", dir. by Roman Radzilevich / comedy, 14 min., fiction / 2022, Ukraine, Russia
"Match", dir. by Anel Askar / black comedy, 5 min., animation/ 2022, Kazakhstan, Russia
"Loud story", dir. by Maria Senichkina / popular science, 11 min., documentary/ 2022, Russia
SCRIPTS TO BE PRODUCED

"Acclimatization" / drama, comedy, adventure, feature fiction, 100 min.
"La Dauphine" / biopic, mystery, 90 min.
"Psychodrama" / TV Series, comedy, crime, drama, 8х40 min.
"Sleeping Beauty"/ black comedy, animated short, 9 min.
GRANTS

Educational grant of Mars Media Entertainment / MFF Showrunner course / 2023, Russia
Award of Russian Ministry of Culture and Education / Grant for higher art education in VGIK / 2021, Russia
PRIZES

International Festival of student and debut films "Saint Anna"/ “The Lamb”/ Best Script / 2025, Russia
All-Russian pitching of family animation projects / Nomination “Animated Series”/ Short-lister, “The Tierra del Fuego”/ 2024, Russia
8 "Free Cinema" pitching (2024)/ III prize/ Feature film script, “Olesya’s home”/ 2024, Russia
Formula of the Way Laboratory/ Nomination “Feature film” / Long-lister, “Olesya’s home”/ 2024, Russia
43rd VGIK International Student Festival/ Best treatment of feature film (I prize)/ “Acclimatization” (comedy, drama)/ 2023, Russia
43rd VGIK International Student Festival/ Best script of feature film (II prize)/ “Olesya’s home” (comedy, drama)/ 2023, Russia
42nd VGIK International Student Festival/ Best script of feature short (I prize)/ “Exodus” (drama)/ 2022, Russia
42nd VGIK International Student Festival/ Best script of animated short (III prize)/ “Match” (black comedy)/ 2022, Russia
41st VGIK International Student Festival/ Best script of animated short (I prize)/ Sleeping Beauty (black comedy)/ 2021, Russia
FESTIVALS

Twente Short Film Festival van de Korte Film/ “Match”, competition program/ the Netherlands, 2025
International Festival of student and debut films "Saint Anna"/ “The Lamb”, competition program, Best Script and Best Film (II prize)/ Russia, 2025
The Arctic International Film Festival "Golden raven"-2025/ “The Lamb”, competition program/ Russia, 2025
The Kazan International Muslim Film Festival "White Bird-2025"/ “The Lamb”, competition program/ Russia, 2025
Ural Shorts / “The Lamb”, competition program/ Russia, 2025
Festival of contemporary Russian cinema Mayak / “Salvation”, competition program / Russia, 2024
The International Short Film Day/ “The Lamb”, competition program, Best Film according to the TikTok Generation Jury Prize/ Russia, 2024
The VGIK International Student Festival/ “The Lamb”, competition program, qualifying stage/ Russia, 2024
International Student Film Festival of the CIS countries "Ascension"/ “The Lamb”, competition program, Audience Choice Award/ Russia, 2024
Ural Shorts / “Communal Signing”, competition program/ Russia, 2023
RESIDENCIES AND ARTISTIC LABORATORIES

Shakespeare in the Ghetto/ Eshkolot Literature Festival of Jewish Texts and Ideas/ ITALY, Venice, 2017
Polish Jewry as a cultural and historical phenomenon/ "Sefer" Center ethnographical school/ POLAND, Warsaw-Krakow, 2017
In the footsteps of happiness seekers/ "Sefer" Center ethnographical expedition/ Jewish Autonomous Region, 2025
PUBLICATIONS AND RESEARCHES

"The biblical motif as a plot-forming principle in screenplays"/ Postgraduate internship thesis/ 2024, VGIK, Russia
"Miracle as a film dramaturgy model"/ Article in the proceedings of the conference/ Personality and social models in cinema: fiction and non-fiction/ 2023, VGIK, Russia https://elibrary.ru/kzwvmy
"The biblical motif as a plot-forming principle in screenplays"/ Postgraduate internship thesis/ 2024, VGIK, Russia
"The motive of sacrifice in the context of the miracle-based film plot"/ Article in the proceedings of the conference/ 10th Annual scientific and practical conference/ 2023, VGIK, Russia
"The hero’s journey as the basis of the story in the fear-films"/ Article in the proceedings of the conference/ 5th Annual All-Russian youth scientific and practical conference "A journey in the cinema: towards the problem of the travel format"/ 2023, VGIK, Russia
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