Наталия Мещанинова

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Natalya Meshchaninova (Russian: Ната́лия Ви́кторовна Мещани́нова; born 17 February 1982; Krasnodar) is a Russian director and ,scriptwriter. 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.