about me
- Editing Documentary Feature
Professional Experience
Versatile film editor with a robust background in assembling compelling stories from diverse materials: historical footage, live recordings, interviews, photographs, and other media.
Adept at refining the visual and historical quality of films. Oversaw editing for notable documentary and feature film projects. Skilled in remote editing and collaborating internationally to maintain high-quality standards.
- WHAT BEAT YOU NOTHING (2021)
- Balabanov. Belltower. Requiem (2022)
- KINGDOM SHELTER (2023)
- Night country (2024)
- Séance magazine (2018-2021)
2. Editing Narrative Feature
3. Video Essay Editing
4. Video Installation
5. Editing Workshop Instructor
- Alexei Balabanov Exhibition (2022-2023)
- TEMPORARY SHELTER (2024)
93min
93 min
TEMPORARY SHELTER - dir. Anastasiia Bortuali (2024)
Lead Film Editor
Challenges accepted
- My first international project
- fully edited remotely
- co-authored the entire film through multiple production stages
- more than 600 hours of raw material
- edited initial scenes during the fund-seeking process
“The brilliant editing method chosen by the director of the editing leads us through the dramatic story with ease and confidence. Makes you wish the movie wouldn't end”.
Thom powers Lead Programmer, TIFF Docs
FLAHERTIANA 2023 [Let’s doc film lab]
BEAT FILM FESTIVAL 2024 [doc industry]
53min
93 min
Night country - dir. ANDREY NATOTSINSKIY (2024)
Lead Film Editor
Challenges accepted
- entirely revamped the film script
- acted as a mediator between the producer and the director
- Lack of footage
- found a way to make key aRchival footage significantly impact the film plot without being too direct
Athens Cinergo 2024 [best editing]
MAYAK 2023 [best
debut feature film award]
debut feature film award]
85min
93 min
KINGDOM SHELTER - dir. Tanya Rakhmanova (2023)
Lead Film Editor
DOP. Alisher Khamidkhodzhaev
ART DIR. Kirill Shuvalov
MUS. VITYA ISAEV
ART DIR. Kirill Shuvalov
MUS. VITYA ISAEV
93 min
Challenges accepted
my first edited narrative feature film and first award as a professional editor.
FICTIONAL STORY based on real-life accounts of orphanage graduation parties. All the main characters are played by former orphanage students. Not easy to edit at all.
prod. planeta9
93 min
won the «Petersburg of the Future» award for «Exhibition of the Year»
attracted well over 300,000 visitors over the span of four months
attracted well over 300,000 visitors over the span of four months
ALEXEI BALABANOV EXHIBITION (2022-2023)
Lead Video Installation Artist
93 min
Managed the entire video production process independently, including pre-production planning, shooting, editing, post-production, and final delivery, ensuring high quality and seamless integration with other exhibition components.
Collaborated with multimedia designers, curators, and technical staff to create a cohesive and immersive visitor experience.
ALL THE RED DOTS ARE video installation points (total: more than 30)
NIKA 2022-2023 [best
documentary feature]
documentary feature]
113min
93 min
Balabanov. Belltower. Requiem. - dir. Lyubov arkus (2022)
Lead Film Editor
Challenges accepted
Daring to face mortality: A multi-faceted portrait of a legendary director. On set, a perfectionist. At home, a devoted father and mercurial spouse. In illness, defiant yet vulnerable. A tormented artist, a man of faith wrestling with fatal yearning, and ultimately, an enigma. This deeplypersonal narrative
calls for both thoughtful analysis and gentle treatment. it is a cinematic elegy
calls for both thoughtful analysis and gentle treatment. it is a cinematic elegy
121min
93 min
WHAT BEAT YOU NOTHING - dir. Lyubov arkus (2021)
Lead Film Editor
Challenges accepted
- Over 1000 hours of diverse material, including live shoots, performance rehearsals, play recordings, TV shows, films, photographs, voice recordings, and archival footage from 1930 to 2020.
- Collaborated with leading theater, cinema, and music critics, as well as historians, to sharply contextualize the 20th century
- my first edited documentary feature film
- THE FILM FOCUS PERSONA INITIALLY REFUSED COLLABORATION UNTIL VIEWING THE FINAL CUT: NO OPTION FOR VOICEOVERS OR RERECORDING DIALOGUE, NO ADDITIONAL LIVE FOOTAGE, AND A SIGNIFICANT RISK WITH THE FINAL OUTCOME
- UNEARTHED RARE FOOTAGE FROM OBSCURE CORNERS OF STATE FILM ARCHIVES, AS WELLAS PREVIOUSLY UNSEEN PRIVAT COLLECTIONS
- ALSO SERVED AS EXECUTIVE PRODUCER DURING POSTPRODUCTION PHASE
