Documentary filmmaker, born in St. Petersburg, Russia in 1989, graduated from St. Petersburg Uni-versity of Film and TV in 2012. Since 2010 made five documentary films in Russia and two documentary films in Estonian-Latvian co-production. Ksenia filmed all over Russia, North Caucasus and Belarus. «Come Back Free» won the IDFA prize in mid-length competition and was nominated for Estonian Film Academy Award in 2016, «Immortal» won Grand-Prix at KVIFF and was AFAA Oscar long list nominee in 2019. These and other films were screened and awarded at more than hundred film festivals all over the world, including KVIFF, MoMa doc.Fortnight, IDFA, Hotdocs, CPH:dox, Black Nights FF, FIPAdox, Astra IFF, Viennale, Visions du Reel, Jean Rouch IFF, Moscow IFF. Worked as a director, assistant director, line producer and editor with Rus-sian, Estonian, French and Latvian production companies. Member of Russian Documentary Guild and European Visual Authors Union. In 2020-21 wrote practical course on directing hybrid films and founded an independent production company Flash Doc based in St. Petersburg Russia.
Russia