Volia Chajkouskaya

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Volia Chajkouskaya
Born (1987-12-20) December 20, 1987 (age 37)
Occupation(s)Film director, producer

Volia Chajkouskaya is a producer, film director and film festival manager of Belarusian origin. She studied directing and producing documentary films at the Baltic Film and Media School. In 2016, she founded a production company Volia Films. Her debut as a producer was Dmitrii Kalashnikov's The Road Movie (2016). [1] Her credits as a producer include: Yoyogi (2022), Prazdnik (2019), 72 Hours (2019), My Granny from Mars (2018), etc. [2]

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Chajkouskaya is a voting member of the European Film Academy and a member of the Emerging Producers Network 2018. [1]

Chajkouskaya is the founder and program director of the Belarusian Northern Lights Film Festival [3] [4] [5] and one of the founders of the Belarusian Film Academy (BIFA). [6]

In 2018, Chajkouskaya emigrated to Estonia and started working as a producer at AllFilm. [1]

Her directorial debut, Common Language short, premiered at Jihlava IDFF in 2014. [3]

As of 2024, Chajkouskaya is working on her feature debut The Wife of.... [7]

Filmography

Producer

Director

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Volia Chajkouskaya". Vodblisk. Retrieved 2024-08-19.
  2. ↑ "Volia Chajkouskaya". IMDB. Retrieved 2024-08-20.
  3. 1 2 "Volia Chajkouskaya". Institute of documentary film. Retrieved 2024-08-19.
  4. ↑ Cunnigham, Nick (2022-11-17). "Northern Lights Nordic/Baltic Film Fest: Director and founder Volia Chajkouskaya". Business Doc Europe. Retrieved 2024-08-20.
  5. ↑ Abbatescianni, Davide (2023-11-21). "Volia Chajkouskaya • Founder and programme director, Northern Lights Nordic-Baltic Film Festival". Cineuropa. Retrieved 2024-08-20.
  6. ↑ Vourlias, Christopher (2023-02-17). "Filmmakers Launch Belarusian Film Academy to Give a Voice to Threatened Artists in Repressive Putin Ally". Variety. Retrieved 2024-08-20.
  7. 1 2 3 4 "Volia Chajkouskaya". Democratic Media Institute. Retrieved 2024-08-20.
  8. ↑ Ramachandran, Naman (2023-04-20). "Circle Women Doc Accelerator Reveals Cannes Docs Projects (EXCLUSIVE)". Variety. Retrieved 2024-08-20.


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