Natalya Meshchaninova

Director of fiction and documentary cinema, scriptwriter, writer. Winner of the NIKA award (for the script for “Arrhythmia”), prize-winner and participant of national and international film festivals. Born in Krasnodar. Graduated from Kuban State University of Culture and Arts, majoring in directing for film and television (2005). Worked as director at Krasnodar TV. After training at the Internews School of Documentary Cinema (2007, Marina Razbezhkina’s workshop), she started making documentary films. Worked on the serial “School” (2010). Her debut feature came with “Hope Factory” (2014), which won a prize for Best Debut at the White Elephant awards and a special award “Voice” from young film critics; participated in the competition of Rotterdam IFF and Kinotavr. Her series “Red Bracelets” won the Grand Prix at Dvizhenie [Movement] festival in 2015.

Born: February 17, 1982 (Age 42) in Krasnodar, USSR (Russia)