It's been a while since my last letter in August, when I just finished shadowing director Sudz Sutherland on a tv-series "Private Eyes". Come say hi to me in Washington, DC during the DCEFF festival March 15-18, and at Toronto's screening on March 24 at 3 pm at HotDocs Cinema. Or watch an interview from the Wild & Scenic Fest in California. #filmfestivals #travel #usa #kukama #toronto

After attending Wild & Scenic Film Festival in January, I travelled to San Francisco, the city from my bucket list. Many wonderful things happened there, and one of them was meeting and filming my personal hero - a poet, a writer, a feminist, an LGBT activist and a philosopher Judy Grahn, for the "Moon Cycles" documentary. Dreams do come true! #filmfestivals #travel #usa #lifetimeofmemories #mooncycles #heroes

DOP work In November 2018 I travelled from wintery Moscow to summerish Lisbon to freezing Thunder Bay (Canada) in 36 hours, to finish the shoot we started in the summer for the Federal Government of Canada. That's how I found myself in the glorious -24C in a fly-in indigenous community of Neskantaga, working as a camerawoman. It was a tough shoot, but our wonderful hosts and numerous dogs on the rez made the experience worthwhile. The film on the wellbeing in Indigenous Commu

Incredible journey from a small Peruvian village to the world premiere at Tribeca Film festival! Read the full story by clicking on a pictur

His name is Magid Magid, he is a 28-y.o. Somalian refugee, and a leader of a green party! By the time the documentary film festival started, he was only three fresh weeks as a Lord Mayor, obliged to wear a 1,5 kg gold jewelry around his neck. And he's styling it! I also got a tour of his office when accidentally walked in there. Shortly after his election, Magid Magid fearlessly called Trump a "wasteman" and banned him from entering his city. US president was supposed to visi

After serving on a jury for visual arts, I'm awarded a two-week residency at the Brusk Creek Center for the Arts in Wyoming. I had a privilege being there back in 2013, where I created a few haunting images like this one and visited Yellowstone national park. This time I'm excited to rewrite one of my scripts and to expand nighttime photography of the Wild West's dark skies. After the residency I plan to go to Montana to continue filming my feature doc "Moon Cycles". This doc

September 2016 I spent traveling to Canada's East Coast for a self-imposed writing retreat. Stopping in Maine, New Brunswick, P.E.I. and ultimately in Nova Scotia, I extended the work on "Every Place has a Spirit" (previously known as "Encounters") photo-series and wrote a first draft of a new script. The beauty of the Hopewell rocks in New Brunswick captured my imagination. There I chose to do my first ever performance art piece which has now become a part of "Flower-power"